Asaf Elia-Shalev

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Asaf Elia-Shalev is a senior reporter with JTA and is based in Los Angeles. He is also the author of "Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth," which was published by UC Press in 2024.

From Asaf Elia-Shalev

United States

Mike Bloomberg vows to catch whoever leaked his tax records showing he paid 3.7% on $1.9 billion in income in 2018

Culture

The New York Times called Isaac Bashevis Singer a Polish writer. Here’s how Wikipedia warriors made him Jewish again.

United States

Hebrew Israelite football student in Ohio forced to eat to pork as punishment for missing practice

United States

‘We still have a lot of work to do’: The Jewish communal response to George Floyd’s murder, 1 year later

Politics

Cory Booker starts new coalition of Black and Jewish senators to tackle antisemitism and racism

Israel

Biden tells Netanyahu he wants ‘de-escalation today’ in Gaza conflict

Israel

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leads push in Congress to block arms sale to Israel

Israel

Jewish employees urge Google to support Palestinians, reconsider contracts with Israeli entities

Israel

To prevent violence, former Israeli intelligence officers are volunteering to spy on extremists online

Obituaries

Former congressman Lester Wolff, known for surviving assassination threats and supporting Israel, dies at 102

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