Sam Sokol

Sam Sokol was the Jewish World beat for The Jerusalem Post. Prior to taking on his current assignment, Sam was a features writer for the the Post's Friday magazine. He studied political science at Yeshiva University.

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. October 26, 2019

Joe Biden accuses Trump of fanning the flames of antisemitism

Former Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat

Nir Barkat says he is open to meeting Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar

A mezuzah

California Jewish legislators hang mezuzahs on office doors


Calif. Board of Education rejects ethnic studies curriculum

“Following the Instructional Quality Commission’s review and response to all public comments, a new draft will be developed for State Board of Education review and potential approval."

Pupils at Tiferet Chaya School for Girls in Elad

Mahmoud Abbas snubs visiting Republicans

Abbas dropped out of a scheduled meeting in Ramallah with the delegation of 31 Republicans.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Preschool opens at former concentration camp in Serbia

The current owner of the building denies that he has profaned the site, saying he has “been battling for 20 years, investing in this building, caring for it, nurturing it.”

A view of the Auschwitz concentration camp

Neo-Nazis plaster racist fliers on 3 Seattle synagogues

The flier read “Send them back” and “deport the commie brown infestation.”

U.S. Reps Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hold a news conference after Democrats in the U.S. Congress moved to formally condemn President Donald Trump's attacks on the four minority congresswomen on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S.,

Pittsburgh rabbi to US A-G: Forgo death penalty for synagogue gunman

Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, whose New Light Congregation lost three worshippers in the October attack by Robert Bowers that killed 11, has written to Barr “as a victim of the attack."

The cover of the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle regarding the Tree of Life shooting of October, 2018

How secular Ayelet Shaked came to dominate the right-wing religious camp

The 43-year-old mother of two is a secular Jew from Tel Aviv.

United Right leader Ayelet Shaked is seen at the Knesset on Monday. She is resolute in her party's ability to push for annexation of Area C of the West Bank.

Destroyed and dispersed: How Russia ruined Jewish life in eastern Ukraine

Ironically, the biggest displacement of Jewish life was caused by Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine, purportedly to protect Jews, ethnic Russians and other minorities.

Ukrainian ultranationalists march with torches in Kiev

Jewish Agency marks 20 years of city twinning

The program links around 450 communities in Israel and around the world through 46 established partnerships. “

THE BAHA’I Gardens in Haifa.

Britain's Labour party expels activist over Holocaust denial

Kaffash’s ban came only weeks after Labour suspended Vicki Kirby, a senior official, for the second time since 2014.

A woman holds a Union flag umbrella in front of the Big Ben clock tower (R) and the Houses of Parliament in London

Analysis: Choice of Jewish PM undercuts long-held accusations of state anti-Semitism in Ukraine

Parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Groysman being considered for the job by President Petro Poroshenko.

UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER Volodmyr Groysman (right) speaks with Stepan Kubiv, President Petro Poroshenko’s representative in parliament, during a session in Kiev on March 29.