Read @jaymichaelson.bsky.social on what El-Sayed is actually saying about the future of Israel and Palestinians: unlike Mamdani, he's not talking about a zero-sum showdown.

Abdul El-Sayed is right about the future of Israel and Palestinians

The Michigan Senate nominee’s vision of self-determination for all provides a coherent alternative to the one-state partisans on both the left and right.

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Each of these incidents in a heavily Jewish Queens neighborhood was alarming to learn about. Now the same person has been charged in both — one of them as a hate crime — putting the speeding-vehicle death of journalist Cara Trager in a new and chilling light.

Man charged in car crash that killed Jewish journalist vandalized a Jewish business days before

A fatal car crash, an unsolved murder and attacks on Jewish establishments have put a Queens community on edge

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On this primary day in Michigan, read @forward.com on the Jews for El-Sayed phenomenon — including former Rep. Andy Levin, defeated by Haley Stevens with AIPAC's help.

Abdul El-Sayed is courting Jewish voters — without moderating his views on Israel

The Michigan Senate candidate, who has called the Israeli government “evil,” is finding a following among Jewish voters that includes some who identify as Zionist

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Was just there on my last visit. This is so upsetting. Whether antisemitism or not, just devastating.

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"This is how Europe started" —the landlord of the Montreal kosher restaurant that burned down early Saturday, son of a Holocaust survivor, speaking to @forward.com's @benyamincohen.bsky.social .

"This is how Europe started" —the landlord of the Montreal kosher restaurant that burned down early Saturday, son of a Holocaust survivor, speaking to @forward.com's @benyamincohen.bsky.social .

Suspected arson gutted Montreal’s trendiest kosher restaurant. The city’s Jews say they saw it coming

Surveillance video shows a man setting fire to Nöam, a popular pizza establishment. Canadian Jews say it's part of a pattern officials refuse to name

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NYC has a history of moments when mayors failed to lead in ways that looked out for Jews. I delved into one of them, the 1968 teacher's strike, for some perspective on claims Mamdani is turning his city into an antisemitic hellscape.

A mayor exposed New York City Jews to chaos. It wasn’t Mamdani.

John Lindsay’s inept handling of a schools control crisis six decades ago as antisemitism swirled offers perspective on claims that Mayor Zohran Mamdani is turning his city into a hellscape for Jews.

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NYC has a history of moments when mayors failed to lead in ways that looked out for Jews. I delved into one of them, the 1968 teacher's strike, for some perspective on claims Mamdani is turning his city into an antisemitic hellscape.

A mayor exposed New York City Jews to chaos. It wasn’t Mamdani.

John Lindsay’s inept handling of a schools control crisis six decades ago as antisemitism swirled offers perspective on claims that Mayor Zohran Mamdani is turning his city into a hellscape for Jews.

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Israel has an election coming up in late October with an opposition poised to eject Israel's current prime minister. @forward.com columnist Rob Eshman is polite here when he says that Mamdani's fixation on Netanyhau is a distraction from the real story of how to change course.

Mamdani isn't the real resistance against Netanyahu — Israelis are

Israeli voters are quietly doing something New York’s mayor can't: putting Netanyahu's coalition on track to lose.

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Dr. Bronner's soap, which is made from West Bank and Israeli olive oil, is still sold at the Park Slope Food Coop despite the coop ban on products from those places. The soap co CEO insists on the opposite approach: peace through "constructive engagement."

Dr. Bronner’s soap mixes Israeli and Palestinian olive oil — and dodges product boycotts

‘Cosmic Engagement Officer’ David Bronner brings the family “All-One” legacy into a campaign for Palestinian rights and Jewish coexistence, promoting peace by doing business with both sides

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Read @forward.com's investigation of U.S. church pageants where Jewish characters are villains out to destroy baby Jesus. Thanks to our reporting, the Ukrainian Catholic church is now vowing to stop the antisemitic displays. The Vatican remains silent. forward.com/news/839093/...

Vatican silent on Jewish villains in U.S. Ukrainian Catholic church pageants

Giant noses, peyos and booze are props in the Christmas-season plays called verteps, hosted and attended by church officials

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From the department of "we told you so," by @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social. forward.com/news/836396/...

After Platner's collapse, Jewish Democrats say party can't ignore candidates’ red flags

Jewish Democrats who opposed the Maine Senate nominee say their party’s push to anoint him offers lessons about compromise on values important to Jewish voters

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Happy 60th birthday to the #FOIA, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on this day in 1966! Subscribe to FOIA Files! It's FREE! bloomberg.com/foiafiles

"But it seems to me the real danger is that young Jews will conclude there is no room for them inside Jewish institutions unless they silence their conscience. A community cannot thrive if the choices it offers the next generation are hypocrisy or excommunication."

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In a new op-ed for @forward.com, Brad Lander responds to Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove's prediction that an emboldened left will consider him an expendable Jew and vote him out the way he defeated Dan Goldman.

In a new op-ed for @forward.com, Brad Lander responds to Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove's prediction that an emboldened left will consider him an expendable Jew and vote him out the way he defeated Dan Goldman.

My hopes for the rabbi who envisions my defeat — and for a better Jewish future

Elliot Cosgrove says I’m doomed politically as a Jew who seeks a new path for Israel. I invite him to join me in reckoning with our shared spiritual challenge.

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Columbia University has a new president today. A year after the Trump administration shoved the school into a pledge to reform its offerings on Israel and the Mideast, the department at the center of controversy remains more or less alone.

Columbia Mideast course reforms leave scrutinized department untouched

A year after the school settled threatened federal action with a commitment to more balanced teaching on Israel, the Middle East studies department Trump tried to seize remains status quo

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Not chutzpah to say that Judaism could be what saves us from AI apocalypse. As laid out beautifully here by @miraefox.bsky.social

We're losing control of AI. Is Judaism the key to keeping it from killing us?

Judd Rosenblatt believes that we need a new idea to ensure that self-improving AI doesn't delete human values from its code

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JUST IN: The Supreme Court *upholds* birthright citizenship as a right under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Roberts writes the 6-3 decision, with only Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting.

A detailed and fair look from @keene.la at Melat Kiros (and incumbent Diana DeGette's) differences on Israel that could decide today's congressional election in Colorado.

Colorado voters weigh candidate for Congress who declined to call Boulder firebombing antisemitic

Melat Kiros has made Israel a wedge issue in her campaign. Polls show the strategy is working.

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The Army's paratrooping rabbi: a profile in what America makes possible and a Jewish leader's drive to pay it forward, from @benyamincohen.bsky.social. .

The Army’s only airborne rabbi finds his congregation wherever he lands

As America celebrates 250 years, Scott Klein — the sole Jewish chaplain at the country's largest military base — is carrying on a tradition of service that dates back to the Revolution

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My colleague @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social, who covers antisemitism for @forward.com, is from San Francisco and has an excellently local assessment of what just happened (twice) to @scottwiener.bsky.social. .

How seriously should we take San Francisco’s anti-Zionist hecklers?

The confrontations with congressional candidate Scott Wiener bubble from a tradition of Bay Area provocateurs

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The most insightful piece I have read anywhere about what the Goldman/Lander race was really all about when it came to the place of Jews in the world, from @joelhs.bsky.social in @forward.com.

The biggest Jewish issue in New York's most Jewish primary wasn't really Israel

The race was really a contest over which strategy for fighting antisemitism American Jews should bet on

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To think how much pleasure there is!

Don't be fooled by Netanyahu pausing the antiquities bill: The settler project of using historic sites to expand Israel's West Bank turf and hem in Palestinians is in full effect. forward.com/news/833972/...

NEW: The United Auto Workers Is New York City’s Unlikeliest Kingmaker For the second consecutive year, the UAW bet early on long-shot candidates, putting themselves in opposition to their allies in labor. Now two of its own are set to serve in Congress. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/25/u...

The United Auto Workers Is New York City’s Unlikeliest Kingmaker

For the second consecutive year, the UAW bet early on long-shot candidates, putting themselves in opposition to their allies in labor. Now two of its own are set to serve in Congress.

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Tom is right about the coming GOP tactic. The trackers who were asking Dems about Graham Platner will now ask about Avila Chevalier; on TV, Dems will get asked if they agree with her about abolishing prison etc and they'll squirm. Up to them to answer; tactic isn't guaranteed to work!

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I said explicitly that she will win the district. Much to the delight of Republicans who will feature her in campaigns far, far away from New York.

Quite a night for anyone following how Israel is resonating as an issue in Democratic politics. Here's @forward.com's New York City roundup. forward.com/news/833219/...

Lander, Avila Chevalier unseat incumbents on winning congressional primary night for Mamdani

Israel was front and center in defeats of Reps. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat

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Brad Lander is projected to win the NY-10 primary over Rep. Dan Goldman. Read @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social on how Lander turned out anti-Zionist voters even as he is committed to the premise of Israel as a Jewish state.

Can a liberal Zionist win with the pro-Palestinian movement? Brad Lander is trying.

In race for Congress, Rep. Dan Goldman and his progressive challenger differ on how Democrats should build political coalitions around Israel and Gaza

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Fascinating analysis of a question hovering around AIPAC: Does all its spending actually sway elections? The evidence suggests not.

Is AIPAC a 'monster' that decides Congressional races? The data shows otherwise

AIPAC is the most demonized lobby in the US — despite being far from the most effective one

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Voting in the Dan Goldman or Jerrold Nadler districts in NYC today? @forward.com coverage can help. Here's @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social's in-depth guide to where the Upper East/Upper West Side candidates stand on Israel.

In the race for Jerry Nadler’s seat, much talk on Israel but little disagreement

In Manhattan’s heavily Jewish 12th Congressional District, Alex Bores, Micah Lasher and Jack Schlossberg all largely support Israel, even as Gaza and military aid divide Democrats elsewhere

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If you’re rooting for Cape Verde today in the World Cup, some related Jewish history here will enhance the experience. By @keene.la

This year’s biggest World Cup upset came from its most Jew-ish team

Cape Verde, the island country that shut out Spain, has a rich Sephardic heritage — and a player with likely Jewish ancestry

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