Bipartisan slate ask in letter to Biden for interagency task force led by an official at the Assistant Secretary rank or higher, citing FBI report of rise in antisemitic hate crimes, ahead of White House roundtable on subject

Given American Jews’ predominantly liberal political views, these misgivings could have a ripple effect in Washington and further widen what has become a partisan divide over support for Israel

Incident comes as rise in antisemitic attacks reported by ADL and FBI, further fueled by hate speech that have seeped into mainstream due to rapper Kanye West; bipartisan law makers to call for emergency response

Brandon Roberts discovered that his biological father is a Ukrainian Jew, which explains his lifelong affinity to Judaism and Israel; now considers himself a Zionist Christian of Jewish descent and an African American

Rabbi Yosef Itzhak Wolff fears may never be able to return to his parish in Kherson after he allowed Jewish Russian soldiers to pray in his synagogue