The inside story of how ‘Harry Potter’ was translated into Yiddish

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.

The former Tampa Bay Rays vice president is about to take over one of baseball’s biggest franchises

Let no one tell you a quality Jewish education doesn’t have practical applications

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

What on earth is going on in Israeli politics right now, explained

The Israeli opposition leader has a very different vision for American and Israeli Jews than the current government

Why Netanyahu’s case for his reelection fails on its own terms

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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

‘Part of the power of this country is that we need each other at moments like this to do the thing that is right.’

Widespread anti-Semitism in Europe has suppressed Jewish life, with many Jews afraid to identify themselves or their institutions as Jewish

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.

Jews continue to be the most targeted religious group in America

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.

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

Police reports describe Julia Salazar attempting to impersonate Kai Hernandez, a family friend and then-wife of baseball star Keith Hernandez

How a media narrative miscast Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian envoy in Washington, as a Holocaust denier

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

Coulter has long winked at anti-Semites. This week, she openly joined them.

The senator has experienced the very anti-Semitic attacks that have proliferated in Labour, and is perfectly positioned to call them out

It’s time to debunk this myth once and for all

With a fastball that touches 97 mph and stellar minor league numbers this year, Kremer is projected to make the majors