August 28, 2026 — Even cakes are political’: Michal Epstein faces backlash over kosher pastry kitchen. Former basketball star Michal Epstein faced boycott threats after making her pastry kitchen kosher; She says Eats remains open on Saturdays and nonkosher, calling the backlash a sign of how deeply politics has entered everyday life

August 28, 2026 — California could become the first state to list ‘Jewish’ as an ethnicity. Groundbreaking bill would add ‘Jewish’ to ethnicity and race questions on state forms, drawing support from Jewish groups and warnings from opponents.

August 28, 2026 — Spain declares national security crisis in Ceuta. Israel can help Morocco make the enclaves costly. Opinion: Madrid lectures Israel on borders while activating emergency powers over its African outposts; the Abraham Accords now give Israel and Morocco a real way to respond

August 28, 2026 — Apple to pay $150,000 to settle federal discrimination suit over Jewish employee’s Shabbat observance. The two-year agreement requires the company to pay the former employee $80,000 in back wages and $70,000 in damages and revise its religious-accommodation policies.

August 28, 2026 — Trump rejects reports he wants Iran talks: I don’t want to meet, they do. President Trump rejects reports he wants talks with Iran, saying Tehran is “begging to make a deal” as the US focuses on economic pressure.

August 28, 2026 — Democrats are waking up to the American far left’s antisemitism problem. For months, much of the Democratic Party seemed determined to look the other way when it came to Hasan Piker. Not anymore. He can’t avoid the spotlight now.

August 28, 2026 — Synagogues and churches to Congress: Protect us now. Government must do more to meet the urgency of the times we live in.

August 28, 2026 — Chicago alderman went ‘Jew-hunting’ when he blamed AIPAC for releasing divorce records, lawsuit alleges. The suit, filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, also states that the Jewish lawyer, whom the alderman blamed, is not actually tied to the pro-Israel lobby.

August 28, 2026 — Trump names Ben Moss, who was president of Jewish group in law school, White House staff secretary. The U.S. president said that Mosss “has been tremendous as deputy staff secretary and, before that, as policy director to the vice president.”

August 28, 2026 — ‘Felt like a lynch mob,’ mom of 4-year-old says of NYC-funded festival, in which performer accuses Israel of ‘war crimes.’ “I’m an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, so antisemitism is why I’m here in the first place,” the mother told JNS. “To see it out in full effect in the daylight is awful.”

August 28, 2026 — ‘We’re watching,’ says group that attends NYC court cases about Jew-hatred. “The fact of the matter is that showing up for this, which is a matter of justice, is something I can do and something anybody else can do,” Glenn Richter, the group’s founder, told JNS.

August 28, 2026 — Antisemitic ideology deeply embedded within the far-right German AfD party, new AJC report shows. The AJC report found that while Germany’s AfD party denies antisemitism, “antisemitic ideas, codes, and narratives” are present throughout its rhetoric, mobilization strategies and memory politics.