Philissa Cramer

The Google snapshot for Iran's Natanz nuclear facility right now

Are Christians coming for an election about Israel that's meant just for Jews? “Some members of our elections committee expressed concerns about Messianic Jews, or Jews for Jesus, or others voting," the American Zionist Movement's head told @AsafShaloo jta.org/2024/12/04/isr…

@MonicaLMarks @SaraHirschhorn1 Hi Monica. I wrote this story for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and we updated it yesterday with a deeper dive into the Fox News/AP poll. Different methodologies, different results – but either way, no red wave of Jewish voters. jta.org/2024/11/06/uni…

@SaraHirschhorn1 My source was @philissa's story for Times of Israel here, which did its due diligence by noting that the first rule of exit polls is not to take exit polls too seriously. This seems like the best guess so far, but actual results might differ: timesofisrael.com/79-of-us-jews-…

According to NBC, Trump did best with Native American (65%) and White (57%) voters. Harris did best with Black voters (85%) and, not shown here, Jewish voters (79%).

Jewish communities tend to join the resistance against anti-immigrant rhetoric. Not in Springfield, Ohio. @AndrewLapin talked to the rabbi of the city's only synagogue and found out why jta.org/2024/09/19/uni…

I wasn't able to go to this year's Ishay Ribo concert at MSG so I revisited my story from last year. Wow, remembering a world where Oct. 7 hadn't happened yet ... jta.org/2023/09/05/ny/…

It's official: Canada revokes the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund — and another Jewish nonprofit that directs donations to Israel, the Ne'eman Foundation jta.org/2024/08/12/isr…

Tim Walz wrote a master's thesis in 2001 about Holocaust education, in which he argued for changes to how most schools handled the subject. @JTAnews obtained it — and talked to former students about his school's approach to teaching the Holocaust jta.org/2024/08/06/pol…

JD Vance's chief of staff is a Jewish guy from New Jersey who once interned for Hillary Clinton — and @AsafShaloo talked to his childhood rabbi jta.org/2024/07/30/uni…

Some breaking news in the Jewish world: Hebrew Union College is ending its longstanding ban on students in interfaith relationships. jta.org/2024/06/20/rel…

The pain in our dispatch from the streets of Tel Aviv this Israeli Independence Day is palpable. “It’s hard to admit this but I’m not feeling anything. I’m emotionally disconnected,” one mother told our reporter. jta.org/2024/05/13/isr…

This speculative story set in 2053 is the most optimistic thing you can read about Israel/Palestine today. It suggests (as others have) that the tide will turn when women lead (ht @dzkalman) themontrealreview.com/Fiction/Lookin…

If you're invested in understanding Israel, this is the most important story you can read today.

have never felt more Jewish than realizing that some people would experience this as a draw

Now for something completely, delightfully different — with a quiz!

@matthewkassel @J_Insider Terrific news, mazal tov!! Enjoy!

Some personal news: I’ll be out on paternity leave for the next couple of months. In the meantime, follow my colleagues at @J_Insider (subscribe to our Daily Kickoff newsletter here: jewishinsider.com/subscribe/). See you in June!

Back on my shit. Please give sick-night streaming suggestions for someone who likes romcom trash.

This article somehow does not coin the term "urban boom loop" — where falling commercial rent prices in cities that can withstand property tax declines allow for exciting businesses that draw new residents — so let the record show that I am doing it now theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@patrick_wall Cute plate

Bought these plates at the thrift store today and the cashier wrapped them in newspaper…turns out it was my story lol. I’m going to assume they read it first 😅

Daniel Perez, officially missing since Oct. 7, was declared dead today. JTA covered his family's gut-wrenching decision to go ahead with his brother's wedding 10 days after the attack. "We are part of a people that sanctifies life," his father told us. jta.org/2023/10/27/lif…

I was surprised by how much I learned from this @AsafShaloo interview with the volunteer bureaucrat leading the effort to allocate a historic outpouring of US Jewish philanthropy to Israel jta.org/2024/03/13/isr…