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The U.S. House could vote to codify an official and widely accepted definition of anti-Semitism as early as Wednesday, but some Democratic lawmakers are objecting. They prefer a far narrower definition crafted by progressive critics of Israel.

Good Wednesday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Marc Rowan’s views on post-Oct. 7 philanthropy and campus antisemitism and a new initiative by the Jewish Braille Institute to get accessible Passover Haggadot to anyone who needs one, as well a newly...

At the height of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, Jewish community councils across the country threw out a group: the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, a subsidiary of the International Workers Order. A workers’ group with Communist leanings, it was too far left and too political to exist within the fold anymore.The Jewish establishment did not only send this organization into exile. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, as senators investigated Hollywood’s role in promoting Sovi...

New York Times reporter and controversialist Jonathan Weisman made the front page of Monday’s New York Times with

From the halls of Congress to America’s streets and universities, a once largely academic issue has roiled national discourse, inciting accusations of bigotry and countercharges of bullying.

Responding to an unprecedented period of anti-Jewish hatred and discrimination in the US, President Joseph Biden on Thursday released the first-ever national strategy for fighting antisemitism, a 60-page document with more than 100 action items for the federal government and civil society. The strategy notably says that the US "has embraced" the International Holocaust Remembrance

While the White House has tried to stay out of the debate over Israel, it is threatening to overwhelm the release of its strategy.

Gelman described Israel's Independence Day as "Nakba Day",

From the blog of Steve Sheffey at The Times of Israel

“We’ve seen antisemitism weaponized in political terms and it's not helpful in stopping antisemitism.”