At Bicoastal Globes on Sunday, ‘Borat’ Could Triumph
Netflix comes in with a commanding 42 nominations, including a leading six nods for David Fincher’s 'Mank' and 'The Crown' also topping TV nominees with six nods
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McConnell Says He’d Support Trump if He Wins 2024 Nomination
The Kentucky Republican told Fox News that there’s still 'a lot to happen between now' and the next presidential election
'The Day of the Capitol Insurrection Was Our Most Watched Ever': After Trump, Real News Makes a Comeback
CNN Executive Vice President Mike McCarthy explains in an interview how the network finally beat Fox in the ratings war
Biden, Saudi King Phone Call Reaffirms Strong Ties as Khashoggi Report Looms
U.S. intel report says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved murder of Khashoggi in Istanbul, which Saudi Arabia adamantly denies, as Biden also raises the kingdom's human rights record
Pro-Israel Senators to Call on Blinken to Take Stronger Action Over ICC War Crimes Probe
Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat, and Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican say that the ICC probe "unfairly targets Israel, biases any subsequent investigation or trial, and hinders the path towards regional peace."
Opinion Stop Feeding the Antisemitism Outrage Merchants
Why I’ve started to tune out most cases of alleged antisemitism
How California's Jewish Community Won the Battle Over the State's Ethnic Studies Program
Is a Californian model ethnic studies curriculum trying to cleanse Jews from history, as some critics have claimed? Not according to the Jewish groups who helped revise it
A Record Amount of Americans Identify as LGBT+, Gallup Poll Finds
Support for same-sex marriage, legalized in 2015 and largely seen as synonymous with backing for LGBT+ rights, has risen to 62% of Americans, according to the Public Religion Research Institute
New Coronavirus Variant Identified in New York, Researchers Say
A new coronavirus variant that shares some similarities with a more transmissible and intractable variant discovered in South Africa is on the rise in New York City
NBC Under Fire for Portrayal of Orthodox Jews on Canadian Series ‘Nurses’
The American Jewish Committee tweeted that the depiction was 'disgusting'
Declassified U.S. Report on Khashoggi Death Shows MBS Approved Killing, Sources Say
U.S. officials said the report, for which the CIA was the main contributor, assessed that the crown prince approved and likely ordered the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Explained Purim in America: How the Joyous Holiday Increased Jews’ Visibility in the United States
Historians of American Judaism point to Purim as an important holiday that did much to increase Jews’ visibility in the United States in the 19th century
A Week After Biden, Pelosi Calls Netanyahu to Talk COVID, Two-state Solution
U.S. House speaker highlights 'unbreakable bond' and 'unwavering support' for Israel in phone call, while Democrats are concerned Netanyahu has aligned too closely with the Republican Party
Jewish Groups Call to Reverse Trump Policy of Labeling Settlement Products 'Made in Israel'
Products from Israeli settlement couldn't have been marked with Israel as the country of origin since the signing of the Oslo Accords in the mid-1990s, but that changed after Pompeo's final visit to Israel as secretary of state
Top Democratic Lawmaker: I'm Against Annexation, but U.S. Aid to Israel Is Nonnegotiable
Rep. Gregory Meeks, who serves as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has previously said the U.S. should be willing to leverage aid to Israel over annexation
Transgender Jews Are Finding a Safe Haven in an Unexpected Place: The Farm
Among the many who find an emergent Jewish identity through the cultivation of soil are a minority who find something more: a new relationship to gender
FDA: Johnson & Johnson's One-shot COVID-19 Vaccine Effective, Safe and Likely to Stop Spread
Three vaccine recipients had severe side effects in the trial, but the FDA said that its analysis did not raise any specific safety concerns
U.S. Aims to Return to Human Rights Council, Shield Israel From 'Disproportionate Focus'
Under Trump's more isolationist approach, Washington quit the council in 2018 but the Biden government has already returned as an observer
Woody Allen Calls HBO Documentary on Abuse Allegation a 'Hatchet Job'
'While this shoddy hit piece may gain attention, it does not change the facts,' a spokesperson for Allen said in a statement
‘Jesusland’ Won’t Be Good for the Jews. But the ‘United States of Canada’ Might Be Good for Bagels
As the far-right meme 'Jesusland' goes viral, here's a look at the winners and losers in this disturbing rendering of the United States
Opinion Soros, ‘Cultural Marxism’ and QAnon: How the GOP Is Energizing and Entrenching Antisemitism in America
The hate has been refreshed, replacing ‘Elders of Zion’ with ‘globalists,’ blood libel with QAnon, deicide with ‘white genocide.’ An old-new conspiratorial antisemitism is now embedded within the Republican Party, its candidates and voters
Sacha Baron Cohen Says His Days of Disguise Pranks Are Over
Sacha Baron Cohen said he has been sued and nearly arrested over the course of filming his movies and shows