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This piece appears in slightly different form in the Financial Times. Going through my mother’s papers after she died last year, I found a folder marked “1940 immigration—Jewish relatives.” The pleading letters and desperate cables it contained told...

Donald Trump, then a candidate for president, meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, Sept. 25, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office) WASHINGTON (JTA) – Benjamin Netanyahu is going to stride in through the White...

Twelve travelers from countries named in President Trump’s recent executive order were held at John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday morning amid confusion about whether they could legally enter the country. At least two of the detained were...

On Friday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively banning Muslims refugees and immigrants from seven countries from entering the United States. The order, which was not clearly written and not vetted by any of the implementing...

The Central Diner at John F. Kennedy International Airport on January 30, 2017. (Avi Asher-Schapiro/Tribune Media) The Central Diner restaurant in the arrivals hall of New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport resembled a law office on Monday morning...