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By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 22, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, sued Blue Bell Creameries, alleging that a Jewish body shop technician in the Brenham, Texas, ice cream company’s facility in Alabama was fired after he requested a religious accommodation to keep his beard.The Sylacauga, Ala., staffer was fired in March 2025, […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 15, 2026 / JNS) Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), who narrowly lost the Democratic primary for Senate to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, said on Tuesday that she has continued to be badgered over her pro-Israel views.“Earlier today, I was leaving a science committee hearing, standing up for science to address climate change, when I was once […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 11, 2026 / JNS) The Clinton administration was warned in September 1998, three years before 9/11, that the terrorist group behind bombings at U.S. embassies in Africa, al-Qaeda, might fly an explosives-laden plane into an American city, according to intelligence reports that the CIA released on Friday.A Sept. 10, 1998, brief titled “Bin Ladin’s […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 9, 2026 / JNS) Family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks delivered a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to New York City Hall on Tuesday, urging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this week’s ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks.New York City Council member […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 10, 2026 / JNS) The Chicago Rabbinical Council, a nonprofit that has a kosher certification arm, has developed what it says is an innovative model for Jewish divorce, which combines mediation and binding arbitration to address legal, religious and communal dimensions of divorce.The CRC program allows divorcing couples to begin in mediation, turn to […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 10, 2026 / JNS) An Orthodox Jewish man shouldn’t have to finish a local permitting process in order to challenge an Ohio city’s restriction on hosting prayer gatherings in his home, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty told the U.S. Supreme Court.“Religious freedom is an empty promise when Americans can’t get their day in […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 8, 2026 / JNS) Montgomery County police will not issue criminal citations for violations of a new firearms law barring the carrying of guns in or within 100 yards of houses of worship while litigation challenging the measure is pending, the county told a federal court Tuesday.The county’s filing came in a lawsuit brought […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 7, 2026 / JNS) A new book, which comes 25 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York City, addresses the rabbinic laws about the status of wives, whose husbands were killed in the World Trade Center.An agunah is a woman who cannot remarry, either because her husband’s death has not […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 1, 2026 / JNS) Talia Dekel-Fleissig, who led the Jerusalem Press Club as CEO until it shuttered after 13 years on Tuesday, plans to formally open the Israel Press Club, which is to serve foreign correspondents and visiting journalists, on Oct. 27, Israeli Election Day, she told JNS exclusively.The new Tel Aviv-based club is […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Aug. 19, 2026 / JNS) The Gwinnett County Democratic Party in the Atlanta area decided to replace David Hogg, a former Democratic National Committee vice chair, as its featured speaker at an upcoming annual fundraising gala, according to Esther Panitch, a Georgia state representative and the only Jewish member of the state legislature.The gala is […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
“Of all the things left for Shlock Rock to do, this was one of them,” lead singer Lenny Solomon told JNS.
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Aug. 7, 2026 / JNS) The University of Washington canceled an event with antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker, which was scheduled for January, the public school told JNS on Friday.JNS reported that not only did the university plan to host the hateful commentator, upon whom it heaped praise in the description of the event, which two […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Aug. 3, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. Justice Department sued Montgomery County, Md., on Monday, asking a federal court to block the enforcement of new restrictions on carrying firearms in and around synagogues.The lawsuit follows a Justice Department warning on Friday that the county should refrain from enforcing the ordinance against religious congregants or face […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Aug. 3, 2026 / JNS) When Luc fils Jasmin applied to join the Washington State Human Rights Commission, an official state panel, he failed to disclose that his son, Luc Jasmin III, was eastern Washington outreach representative to the state’s governor, according to a copy of his Jan. 27, 2023, application, which JNS obtained.The governor […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 27, 2026 / JNS) Despite a petition from a man whose wife was killed in the 9/11 attacks, calling for Zohran Mamdani to be excluded from the annual commemoration of the 2001 attacks, the New York City mayor said that he plans to attend.“I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 24, 2026 / JNS) As Jewish organizations linked New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rhetoric about Israel to an antisemitic stabbing in Manhattan, the Council on American-Islamic Relations defended the mayor without mentioning the attack, which one Jewish group described as “gaslighting.”In a statement issued on July 24, CAIR and its New York chapter […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 24, 2026 / JNS) Raul Morales, 51, who allegedly yelled “Alahu akbar” while stabbing a Jewish man and an Asian man on Thursday on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, has been charged with attempted murder as a hate crime, the New York City Police Department told JNS.Morales faces charges of “attempted murder as a hate […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 20, 2026 / JNS) Doug Basler, the Republican seeking to unseat Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), said his immediate focus is not on defeating the longtime congressman but on preventing socialist Kshama Sawant from advancing past the Aug. 4 primary.Basler told JNS on Monday that Sawant, a former Seattle City Council member, and Democratic challenger […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 16, 2026 / JNS) The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism released a substantially updated version of its backgrounder on the Democratic Socialists of America on Wednesday, adding material from the past two years and highlighting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as an example of an elected official advancing an anti-Israel agenda. “The previous update to […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
The buffer zone would be twice the size of the one Mamdani vetoed earlier this year.
September 25, 2026 
