Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bret Stephens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist known as one of the paper’s most consistent defenders of Israel, used his Tuesday column to take direct aim at the country’s handling of settler violence in the West Bank — warning that unchecked attacks now pose a threat to Israel’s security and to Zionism itself.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A version of this piece first ran as part of the New York Jewish Week’s daily newsletter, rounding up the latest on politics, culture, food and what’s new with Jews in the city. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. An 8-year-old boy was injured after an intruder entered the front yard of the Jewish Institute of Queens while chasing a woman with a hammer Tuesday morning, the NYPD said.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As Conservative/Masorti rabbis, we see firsthand the joy of couples building a life together in the Jewish community, and the pain of those who feel shut out because one of them is not Jewish. We think of the community member, though not Jewish, who developed a profound love for davening (prayer) and Torah study, and has supported his children’s and grandchildren’s Jewish education and observance of mitzvot.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s leadership with “the 1930s,” escalating a showdown between the two leaders as Netanyahu plans to visit the city in the coming weeks. The Israeli leader made an evocative reference to the period when the Nazis took over Germany in a Fox News interview on Tuesday, adding that he is “definitely going” to New York for the U.N. General Assembly in September.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LONDON – It was one kippah vs. a sea of keffiyehs, as Hackney Council gave initial approval on Tuesday night to begin the process of ending its nearly six-decade twinning relationship with the northern Israeli city of Haifa.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 2002, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, described a series of mostly anti-Israel actions on and beyond campus as “antisemitic in their effect if not their intent.” Summers’ reputation has suffered since then for reasons unrelated to Israel, but his framing remains potent. Jewish leaders frequently use the phrase to suggest that even criticism of Israel made in good faith can inspire acts of hate.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A coalition of leading Jewish organizations from seven countries has released a report confirming that 2025 was the deadliest year for antisemitic violence in the Jewish Diaspora in more than three decades. More than 20 people were killed in antisemitic violence last year, according to the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism report released Wednesday. The report confirms an analysis published earlier this year by Tel Aviv University.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slipped into the White House through a side door and didn’t get any public face time with President Donald Trump on his visit Tuesday. It was a choreography reminiscent of Netanyahu’s February visit that also lacked the ceremonial handshake followed by a question-and-answer session with reporters.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Locals lined up outside a Toronto bagel shop on Monday in a show of support after attacks on two outposts of the Jewish-owned chain, adding to a string of incidents facing Jewish businesses in the city. Two locations of Kiva’s Bagel Bar, a fixture for Toronto Jews since it opened in 1979, were targeted late Saturday and early Sunday.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Four Jewish bar associations took aim at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly announced judicial advisory committee, after the 18-member body appeared to include no Jews. “Not a single Jewish attorney, former judge, or legal professional was appointed to a committee your administration described as one that would be ‘truly reflective of New York City,’” leaders of the four Jewish legal groups wrote in a letter Monday to Mamdani.