
Can Bernie Sanders Fix America’s Broken Anti-Semitism Conversation?
The presidential trailblazer just took a historic first step toward national dialogue about anti-Semitism. But its success will depend on whether he’s willing to confront some hard choices.

What To Expect From Chaim Bloom, The New Head of Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox
The former Tampa Bay Rays vice president is about to take over one of baseball’s biggest franchises

Watch The Most Jewish Performance Ever on A TV Game Show
Let no one tell you a quality Jewish education doesn’t have practical applications

#TeamGefilteFish
Why we’re rooting for the Tampa Bay Rays this baseball postseason—and you should too

Netanyahu Didn’t Lose the Election on Election Night, and He Didn’t Just Win It Now
What on earth is going on in Israeli politics right now, explained

Yair Lapid Wants to Teach Israelis to Understand American Jews. Will He Get the Chance?
The Israeli opposition leader has a very different vision for American and Israeli Jews than the current government

The Truth About Bibi, Israel’s Very Dispensable Man
Why Netanyahu’s case for his reelection fails on its own terms

How a Media Outlet Turned a Trump Appointee Who Mocked Alt-Right Anti-Semites Into an Anti-Semite
Leif Olson, a Trump labor official, sarcastically mocked the anti-Semitic critics of House Speaker Paul Ryan, and their conservative media enabler Breitbart. Bloomberg took those posts, selectively cropped them, missed the joke, and forced his resignation.

How Trump Bullied Israel Into Punishing His Political Opponents, to the Jewish State’s Great Detriment
Last month, Netanyahu said Israel would allow Congresswomen Omar and Tlaib into the country. But after private pressure and public threats from Trump, he suddenly reversed course. The decision is disastrous for Israel, but great for the American president. And that’s the point.

How Trump and the Far-Left Are Conspiring to Mainstream the Israel Boycott Movement
The House of Representatives voted 398-17 to condemn the BDS movement. But you wouldn’t know it from the president, who has repeatedly raised the profile of the Democratic anti-Israel fringe. This benefits BDS, which only dreams of such publicity, and harms Israel.

Netanyahu Posted An Ad Mocking Rival Yair Lapid’s English. Awkwardly, The Ad Got Its English Wrong.
The ad claimed that the word “conundrum,” which Lapid used in a CNN interview, was not a real word. The dictionary, however, disagrees. The dispute matters more for Israel’s elections than you might think.

The Five Factors That Could Change The Outcome of Israel’s New Elections
The Knesset just voted to re-run Israel’s election seven weeks after the last one. Here’s how it happened, and five things that could determine whether the result is the same–or dramatically different.

Chaim Bloom’s Diamond Life
The senior VP of baseball operations for the Tampa Bay Rays explains how his team changed the way the game is played—and why he keeps a jar of gefilte fish in his office

Rep. Ilhan Omar Deserves Dialogue, Not Just Denunciation
The Minnesota congresswoman has repeatedly voiced classical anti-Semitic tropes, and this is deserving of strong condemnation. But she has also voiced an exceedingly rare willingness to reconsider her presumptions and put herself in the shoes of Jews, and they should take her up on it.

Why Naftali Bennett Decapitated the Settler Right and What It Means for Israel’s Future
How the shaming of a soccer star led to the biggest shake-up in Israeli politics and finally unchained Netanyahu’s chief right-wing rival

The New York Times Just Published an Unqualified Recommendation for an Insanely Anti-Semitic Book
The book, recommended by author Alice Walker, repeatedly cites the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ dubs the Talmud ‘among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet,’ and says Jews funded the Holocaust and control the KKK

A Vandal Knocked Down This Menorah Near Harvard. A Pulitzer Prize Winner Put It Back Up.
‘Part of the power of this country is that we need each other at moments like this to do the thing that is right.’

CNN Finds a Quarter of Europeans Are Anti-Semitic. But the Reality for Europe’s Jews Is Even Worse.
Widespread anti-Semitism in Europe has suppressed Jewish life, with many Jews afraid to identify themselves or their institutions as Jewish

Amazon’s Algorithm Has an Anti-Semitism Problem
Its carefully curated search engine serves up anti-Semitism in response to reasonable queries. The problem reflects a wider issue in the world of tech.

FBI: Jews Subject to 60 Percent of Religiously Motivated Hate Crimes in 2017, Despite Being Just 2 Percent of U.S. Population
Jews continue to be the most targeted religious group in America

Republican Rep. Steve King Endorses Anti-Semitic Toronto Mayoral Candidate
Faith Goldy was fired from her Canadian conservative outlet after appearing on a podcast affiliated with the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer. She’d previously attended the Charlottesville rally. Today, a Republican politician glowingly endorsed her campaign for mayor.

UMichigan Condemns Denial of Recommendations to Students Seeking Study in Israel
The university’s forceful response, with its nuanced defense of a speaker who compared Netanyahu to Hitler, shows how schools can uphold academic freedom while also confronting bigotry

State Senate Candidate Was Arrested in 2011 on Suspicion of Criminal Use of Personal Information
Police reports describe Julia Salazar attempting to impersonate Kai Hernandez, a family friend and then-wife of baseball star Keith Hernandez

No, Jeremy Corbyn Did Not Give a Speech at the Wedding of a Palestinian Holocaust Denier
How a media narrative miscast Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian envoy in Washington, as a Holocaust denier

Listen: When John McCain Hilariously Announced He Was Converting to Judaism
In a 2012 roast to mark the retirement of his friend, Joe Lieberman, the Arizona senator wryly recounted all the Jewish practices he’d been dragged into by the Orthodox Jewish lawmaker, and aired his grievances about everything from salmon to Shabbat elevators

Paul Ryan Discovers Jewish Roots, Experiences First Instance of Anti-Semitism, Courtesy of Ann Coulter
Coulter has long winked at anti-Semites. This week, she openly joined them.

Next Time Bernie Sanders Is Asked About Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, He Should Raise Its Anti-Semitism Problem
The senator has experienced the very anti-Semitic attacks that have proliferated in Labour, and is perfectly positioned to call them out

No, the ADL Is Not Soft on Left-Wing Anti-Semitism
It’s time to debunk this myth once and for all