Met cancels Galliano exhibit after backlash over honoring designer who praised Hitler
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled its planned solo exhibition honoring British designer John Galliano, ending months of escalating backlash from the Jewish community over the museum’s decision to build its 2027 Met Gala around a designer with a history of antisemitic and racist statements.
Netanyahu says Iran tried to kill his son while Tehran also threatens Trump’s family
“Here is something quite unbelievable… Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to kill, to murder one of my sons,” Netanyahu said, without specifying which son was targeted or offering further detail.
American Jews bore brunt of religion-based hate crimes in 2025, FBI data shows
Jews were the target of 1,528 hate crime incidents in the United States in 2025, according to FBI data released this week, accounting for 63 percent of all religion-based hate crimes reported nationwide despite making up roughly two percent of the American population.
A quarter century later, Rosh Hashanah and 9/11 converge on the day judgment is written, but the shofar is silent
It is only the second time since 2001 that the two dates have coincided, and this year Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat as well, meaning the shofar that normally opens the Jewish year will not sound at all.
Why are they hosting a pundit who accused Jews of buying Congress?
This October, one of the most prestigious Jewish congregations in America will host a talk by a pundit who has claimed Jews bribe Congress. Does that make any sense? Is this any way to follow up the third anniversary of October Seventh?
Israel’s warning to Trump, and the Mordechai precedent
Israel provided the intelligence that led the US Secret Service to secretly pull President Trump off Air Force One and smuggle him onto a different aircraft as he prepared to leave Turkey last month, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Irony in real time: Nashville bookstore cancels Jewish author’s book on antisemitism and cancel culture
Bell Bird Books, an independent bookstore, canceled a scheduled launch event for a new book “White. Blonde. Jew.” after facing an online pressure campaign from anti-Zionist activists, a cancellation that landed with particular irony given the book’s subject matter.
“Flesh shall rot away while they stand”: A modern outbreak meets an ancient prophecy
A rare and often fatal “flesh-eating” bacteria has killed at least seven people along the Gulf Coast so far this year, with health officials in two states warning residents to stay cautious around warm coastal water through the rest of the summer.
The Texas paradox: A state that loves Israel, but Jews are still six times more likely to be hate crime targets
Jews have been the target of 18 hate crimes in Texas so far this year, roughly 5% of the state’s 345 recorded hate crimes, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Uniform Crime Reporting system.
Marla Maples: Trump carries the Zohar over his heart “for protection and healing”
“He carries with him the Book of Pinchas, the Book of Zohar, in Aramaic. He puts it over his heart, inside, for protection and healing,” Maples said.