Threats on Gab, Truth Social, and other pro-Trump social media sites have proliferated against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who authorized the FBI search of Mar-A-Lago, former-president Donald Trump’s Florida home, and Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed the search warrant, have resulted in warnings to local law enforcement and increased vigilance. Many of the attacks have referenced the Jewish identity of both men.

“The torrent of antisemitic vitriol against them has raised concerns that Trump’s base, which has already shown potential for violence, could channel that rhetoric into action,” Oren Segal, vice president of the Center on Extremism at the Anti-Defamation League, told The Forward. While the threats against Reinhart and Garland specifically reference their Jewishness, other calls for violence invoke long-standing conspiracy theories of Jewish control over the government, The Forward said.

“I don’t think Mar-a-Lago means Jewish people need to keep their heads on a swivel,” Segal said. “I think we’re in a particularly dangerous time in this country, and everybody should be concerned.”

Naftali Bennett, left, and Yair Lapid embraced after the Knesset voted 92-0 on June 30 to dissolve Israel’s government and schedule national elections — the fifth in three years — for Nov. 1. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will be interim Prime Minister. Bennett announced that he will not seek reelection, handing the reins of his Yamina party to Ayelet Shaked, currently Minister of the Interior.                                                                                    Getty Images

President Joe Biden’s first stop on his Middle East tour was Israel, and a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid. The two men signed an agreement declaring the bonds between their two countries “unbreakable” and “unshakeable.” The so-called Jerusalem Declaration includes a U.S. pledge not to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon and “to use all elements of its national power to ensure that outcome.” The U.S. president also visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial, where he met and talked with two Holocaust survivors, attended the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games, and traveled to meet with Palestinian and Saudi Arabian leaders.                                                                            Getty Images

“The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do,” the newest exhibit at The Museum of Jewish Heritage, is now open. The 12,000-square-foot exhibit features more than 750 objects and artifacts donated by survivors and their families, many who settled in the New York area.

The exhibit tells the story of Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust. The museum said. One of the items on display is a Torah scroll rescued during Kristallnacht and packed in the suitcase of a family that immigrated to New York in 1940. It found a second life in a synagogue in Patchogue, Long Island.

The museum invites visitors to learn the stories behind the artifacts, listen to survivor testimonies, and watch original video footage.

Hebrew University archaeologists Michal Haber, left, and Dr. Oren Gutfeld pack up a vessel and other items they discovered at the site of a mikvah, near the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

A project to build a handicap access elevator from the Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall near the Temple Mount unearthed the mikvah, which dates to the 1st century CE.

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“The Dance of the Flags,” a feature of the Jerusalem Day celebration in Israel, on May 28, commemorates the reunification of East Jerusalem with West Jerusalem following the Six-Day War of 1967.                Asish photo

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed a 2,100-year-old agricultural farmstead in Northern Israel’s Galilee region. According to Dr. Amani Abu-Hamid, director of the salvage excavation for the IAA, the occupants of the homestead appear to have left in a hurry, leaving behind their possessions.

“We were lucky to discover this capsule, frozen in time, in which articles remained where they were left by the occupants, who apparently left in haste, perhaps from impending danger,” she said. She pointed out that this was the first time remains from the period were found in the Galilee.

Moreover, she said, the site teaches valuable lessons about the spread of the Hasmonean Empire and daily life in the Hellenistic period. The dig revealed loom weights used for weaving garments, large ceramic storage vessels, and iron agricultural implements, including various picks and scythes.