Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Before the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it would honor fashion designer John Galliano with a major Costume Institute exhibition next spring, the museum convened at least two unusual meetings: a face-to-face with Galliano and a number of prominent rabbis, and a larger meeting with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, museum officials and several prominent Jewish leaders.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Over 100 influencer accounts have circulated theories that Israel orchestrated the rush of Moroccan migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, according to the Combat Antisemitism Movement. Online conspiracy theories proliferated after some 60,000 people swam and crossed on foot into Ceuta, a small Spanish city on the northern coast of Africa that borders Morocco.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Israelis are exiting the country in high numbers, a trend that could harm the state’s future security and economy, according to a new demography study published Tuesday by Tel Aviv University. It showed that 268,509 Israelis left the country for a period of at least three consecutive months from 2023 to 2025, part of a spike that began after 2020 during the COVID pandemic.

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... OAK PARK, Mich. – Working as a morning producer for Detroit’s Local 4 television station, Noelle Gray has had a front-row seat to the flood of political advertising in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Amid the barrage, one thing stood out to her: how much money AIPAC was pouring into the race between U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, a pro-Israel moderate, and former county health official Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive and staunch Israel critic.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I knew that the folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s mom was Jewish in the same way that I knew that jazz great Louis Armstrong spoke some Yiddish. “Guess who’s Jewish (even a little)” is the Jewish national pastime.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Five Toronto police officers who said Muslims returned to the faith in the wake of the Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of Israel on a podcast “made statements that were biased or inappropriate,” violating police standards, and now face a penalty, the police said [[when]]. Multiple people had complained about the March 10, 2025, episode of the “Project Olive Branch” podcast. They received a letter about the disciplinary action Friday and posted it online.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A kosher restaurant in Montreal burned to the ground in a suspected arson as Canada continues to grapple with rising antisemitism. The restaurant, Nöam, burned overnight Friday while it was closed for Shabbat.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... President Donald Trump said he canceled at the last minute a planned joint assault with Israel on Iran’s energy infrastructure at the behest of Saudi Arabia, which feared the war blowing up into a wider conflict. The U.S. alerts over the weekend warning citizens to evacuate the Middle East and then Trump’s announcement late Saturday that he was canceling the planned strike appeared to catch Israel off guard.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Local and national Jewish Democrats say they are sympathetic after Michigan’s Jewish attorney general, Dana Nessel, said she would skip the state Democratic Party’s nominating convention over concerns about antisemitism and harassment.