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New AI tool allows users to chat with Jewish historical figures

The Jerusalem Post 17 Jun 2026
Jewish Lives says the site is designed to “enrich reader exploration of the Jewish experience.” They’ve created lesson plans to help educators use Ask Jewish Lives in the classroom ....
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In Britain, a Jewish Culture Month aims to move the conversation beyond Oct. 7

Cleveland Jewish News 17 Jun 2026
In the almost three years since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of Israel, Great Britain has seen “a relentless focus on everything to do with the Jewish community in the public domain, and it’s about antisemitism or Israel,” said ... .
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66 years after its last Vatican visit, New York’s Jewish federation returns to meet Pope ...

Cleveland Jewish News 17 Jun 2026
Sixty-six years after a meeting between leaders of the UJA-Federation of New York and Pope John XXIII helped usher in a new era of Catholic-Jewish relations, the federation’s leaders have returned to the Vatican ... .
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American Jewish leaders across the political spectrum express alarm at Trump’s Iran deal

Cleveland Jewish News 16 Jun 2026
In 2018, as President Barack Obama struck a deal with Iran to constrain its nuclear production, American Jewish groups were divided. Those on the right excoriated the deal, saying it left Iran a major threat to Israel, while those on ... .
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What a 30-year-old fight over God can teach Reform Judaism about ordaining anti-Zionists

Cleveland Jewish News 16 Jun 2026
Twenty years ago this summer, I began writing my rabbinical thesis about a controversy that tested the boundaries of the Reform movement from 1991 to 1994 ... .
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Trump-backed Oklahoma congressional candidate supports Israel — and says the Antichrist will be Jewish

Cleveland Jewish News 16 Jun 2026
A pro-Israel pastor who inveighs against “sharia law” and wants Jews to accept Jesus is the favored candidate in a crowded congressional primary in Oklahoma on Tuesday ... .
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Trump says he plans to talk to Hezbollah amid Iran peace efforts

Cleveland Jewish News 16 Jun 2026
President Donald Trump said Monday that he planned to speak with U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hezbollah, during his remarks on an agreement the U.S. and Iran signed virtually the night before to end months of hostilities ... .
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American Jewish leaders across political spectrum express alarm at Trump’s Iran deal

The Jerusalem Post 16 Jun 2026
On the right and the left, Jewish groups are expressing concerns about the deal that Trump and Iran announced on Sunday night, even as its terms have not yet officially come into focus ....
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UK appeals court upholds ban on Palestine Action as a terrorist organization

Cleveland Jewish News 16 Jun 2026
A British appeals court ruled Monday that the government acted lawfully in banning a prominent pro-Palestinian group as a terrorist organization ... .
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Trump-backed Oklahoma congressional candidate supports Israel, says the Antichrist will be Jewish

The Jerusalem Post 16 Jun 2026
Jackson Lahmeyer founded Pastors for Trump amid close ties with the Trump family and condemns other right-wing politicians for their lack of support for Israel ....
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Want to ask Einstein about Zionism? A new AI tool lets users chat with Jewish history

Virtual Jerusalem 16 Jun 2026
The Jewish Lives series bases a chat bot on its library of ...
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