JANUARY

• An estimate 25,000 people converge on Manhattan’s Foley Square and make their way to Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza, chanting “No Hate, No Fear,” where they hear from community leaders and organizations urging Jewish pride and unity in the face of escalating antisemitism. The march is in response to the steep rise in incidents of violence against Jews in New York City.

• James Harris, chair of the education committee of the Montclair, N.J. branch of the NAACP, slams Chassidic Jews at the town’s community forum, saying that he went to Jersey City “and I see these folks in long black suits and curly lots.” 

• Adding that the Chassids “are generally not too interactive with anybody other than themselves. Are we going to be displaced by the people who are not all that friendly.”

• “Incitement,” a new film by Israeli-American filmmaker Yigal Zilberman that examines the mindset of Yoga Amir, the young Orthodox man who assassinated Israel’s late prime minister Yitzchak Rabin, is released in New York theaters.

• A journalist from Argentina’s state-run television uses a Jewish conspiracy theory to explain the death of NBA baseball great Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven other passengers in a Jan. 26 helicopter accident. “Sikorsky S76 helicopter, of Jewish nsurname, kills Kobe Brant” tweets Eduardo Salim Sad.

• The Oxford English Dictionary adds a slew of Jewish-themed and Yiddish terms, some of which are sure to offend, to its list of new entries for January 2020. They include terms such as bialy, yeshiva bochur, chrain, Jewfro, Jew York, kvetching, and more.

FEBRUARY

• A group of Jewish undergrads at Harvard form the Harvard Coalition for Peace — a group that, they say, addresses “the need for an organized anti-Zionist organization outside of Hillel for Jewish students who support Palestinian liberation, the end to Israel’s settler-colonial project of occupation, colonization, disposition and apartheid in Palestine.”

• The student government at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne votes to adopt a resolution that supports the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. 

• Academy Award-winning director Quentin Tarantino and his wife, the Israeli model and singer Daniella Pick, welcome their first child; a son whom they name Leo after Pick’s maternal grandfather, Ari Shem-Or. Ari is a lion in Hebrew. Daniella is the daughter of Israel’s singing superstar, Tzvika Pick.

• Responding to rising antisemitism in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces several proposals to combat hate, including one that would create a first-in-the-nation domestic terrorism law.

MARCH

• As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft sends the team plane to China to pick up new protective gear for medical personnel.

• A court in Pakistan overturns the murder conviction and death sentence of Jewish -American journalist Daniel Pearl’s killer who is subsequently released from prison.

• Six residents of a senior living facility in suburban Boston with roots in the Jewish community die after testing positive for COVID-19.

• Israel’s defense establishment stops making missiles and starts manufacturing ventilators to help those hospitalized with COVID-19.

• Yeshiva University men’s basketball team wins the Skyline Conference championship game, winning an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament for the second time in three seasons. 

APRIL

• A 60-minute star-studded virtual Passover seder dubbed “Saturday Night Seder” raises $2.35 million for the CDC Foundation.

• Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and chief rival Benny Gantz sign an agreement to form a coalition government together. The deal ends more than a year of deadlocked elections and political stalemate.

• NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio is blasted for singling out the entire “Jewish community” for violating social distance rules when hundreds of Orthodox Jews gather for a rabbi’s funeral. Turns out, NYPD ok’d the event. 

• Singer Shulem Lemmer, a pop star in his community and a cantor, too, becomes the first artist with a Chassidic background to sign with a major record label.

• As the pandemic overwhelms funeral homes, Jewish funeral directors and chevra kadishas (Jewish burial societies) begin to face difficult decisions about how to safely perform the ritual surrounding Jewish burials.

• Actors Shira Haas, Ben Platt and Josh Malina are among the stars who join a virtual ceremony celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the birth of the State of Israel.

• According to a report issued by the Anti-Defamation League, antisemites have taken to interrupting Zoom meetings and events by posting antisemitic language and signs.

• The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Tufts University wins a Student Organization Award for putting together a coalition of organizations to work with them on their #EndTheDeadlyExchange campaign, which calls for a referendum to end the university’s police department’s involvement with the Israeli police force and military. The vote, scheduled for March, is postponed owing to the pandemic.

MAY

• George Washington University defends the appointment of Ilana Feldman as interim dean of the university’s Elliott School of International Affairs after members of the pro-Israel community voice their objection. Feldman is a supporter of the BDS movement against Israel.

• In a webcast with the Orthodox Union, infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci advises the Jewish community to phase in “the kind of social interactions which are the core of the beauty of your culture” — i.e., communal prayer.

• The Jewish-American Hall of Fame announces its 51st inductee: former Olympic swimmer Dara Torres, who competed in five Olympic Games, winning 12 medals and overtaking American Jewish swimmer Mark Spitz.

• David Peyman is tapped as the U.S. State Department’s special envoy to combat antisemitism.

• Meggie Kwait, an Orthodox Jewish teacher who teaches at Beit Rabban Day School, a Jewish day school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, wins $50,000 in two games, making it into the finals as a contestant on “Jeopardy!” Teachers Tournament.

• According to an ADL report released in 2020, a significant segment of anti-Israel activism on college campuses in 2019 contributed to an atmosphere in which Jewish students felt under attack, and from which antisemitism sometimes emerged.

• PBS premieres the documentary “Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations,” in which filmmaker Andrew Goldberg probes the scourge of antisemitism which, like a virus, is mutating across cultures, borders and ideologies, making it all but impossible to stop.

• New England’s Camp Ramah, as well as many Orthodox Jewish overnight camps, cancel their summer 2020 programs.

JUNE

• Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) endorse progressive candidate Jamaal Bowman, who is mounting a primary challenge to 16-term congressman Eliot Engel, a moderate Democrat and a leading pro-Israel voice in Congress. 

• Two Charlotte, N.C. synagogues call for the removal of a monument to Judah Benjamin, a Jewish politician who served in the Confederate Cabinet. The names of the synagogue are etched on the monument, though neither approved of the memorial. 

• The Jewish Democratic Council of America affirms that it will not support Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in her upcoming primary, but does not provide an endorsement to her chief primary opponent, progressive Antone Melton-Meaux.

• Apple T+ picks up “Tehran,” an Israeli thriller set in the Iranian capital, co-created by Moshe Zonder, a writer for the hit Netflix show “Fauna.”

• Facing criticism, comedian Chelsea Handler deletes a video clip of Nation of Israel leader Louis Farrakhan that Handler, who is part Jewish, posted on Instagram. Handler defended Farrakhan’s virulent antisemitism by writing, “Perhaps Farrakhan’s antisemitic views took form during his own oppression. We know now that oppression of one race leads to an oppression of all races.”

• Universal Music Group, one of the largest music corporations in the US, becomes the first major American music company to open a branch in Israel.

• Victims and survivors of the shooting attack on the Chabad of Poway file a lawsuit against the gunmaker Smith & Wesson and the gun store in San Diego that sold the suspected shooter his firearm. 

• Two Jewish philanthropists launch The Jewish Future Pledge, an initiative calling on Jewish donors worldwide to allocate at least half of their charitable dollars, transferred at death, to Jewish and Israel-related causes.

JULY 

• Ireland’s new government eliminates a key bill that would have placed a boycott on products produced in Israeli settlements. A win for Israel from a nation that has harbored biases against the Jewish state.

• In his newly released book The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart, former editor of The New Republic and a columnist for The Atlantic, comes out against the two-state solution vis a vis Israel and the Palestinians. Instead, he advocates for replacing Israel with a binational state, thus erasing the Jewish state.

• In the span of a few weeks, a spate of Black celebrities, mainly football and basketball stars, use social media to defend and praise Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, echoing his virulent antisemitic rhetoric. A few Black celebs called them out, but it still leaves many Jews fearful of what it all means. Two examples follow:

• After Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson is accused of antisemitism for promoting a quote falsely attributed to Adolf Hitler and praising the virulently antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, he speaks with a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor and accepts the survivor’s invitation to visit Auschwitz, post-pandemic. 

• After engaging in conversation with Los Angeles Rabbi David Wolpe, Former NBA star Stephen Jackson walks back inflammatory comments he made earlier suggesting Jews control all the banks.

• On July 4th, the noted antisemitic Louis Farrakhan delivers a three-hour speech streaming live on the Nation of Islam’s YouTube chapel in which he says Jews had poisoned him with “radiated seed” and calling Jewish figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Middle East negotiator Jason Greenblatt ‘Satan.’ 

• Protestors at a demonstration in Washington D.C. linking Black Lives Matter and the Palestinian cause chant “Israel, we know you, you murder children, too.”

• Iran executes a suspected spy for the U.S. and Israel who gave to those nations information regarding the location of former Islamic revolutionary Guard Corps commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani, killed by an American drone in Iraq in January. 

• A new Instagram account, Jewish on Campus, collects the anonymous anecdotes of Jewish students across the country who have experienced antisemitism in college. 

• Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the Jewish National Security Council staffer who was among the first to raise flags about President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate a political rival, retires from the U.S. Army amid allegations by his attorney that “he was bullied by the president and his proxies.”

AUGUST

• President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan — the crown prince of Abu Dhabi — announce the signing of the “Abraham Accord,” a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. 

• ChaiFlicks, a film and TV steaming platform focused on Jewish-themed movies, is launched. Featuring more than 150 titles, it is available on every major streaming platform, as well as both iOS and Android mobile devices.

• Facebook announces that it will ban posts about Jews controlling the world among several other efforts to combat hate speech. The announcement comes following a monthlong boycott on advertising on Facebook spearheaded by a coalition of civil rights groups led by the ADL. More than 1,000 companies participated in the boycott protesting Facebook’s lack of action against hate speech. 

• Rep. Ilhan Omar, the congresswoman who has been criticized for comments on Jewish influence in politics and supporting the BDS movement, wins her primary against a progressive rival who received support from pro-Israel groups.

• Two giving circles at the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford: JewGood Hartford for young professionals, and the Lillian Fund for women, award grants to five local nonprofits that support social justice, help people impacted by COVID-19, and provide assistance to domestic violence survivors.

• Joe Biden closes the Democratic National Convention by invoking what he depicts as President Trump’s callousness to racism and antisemitism. “Remember seeing those neo-Nazis and Klansmen and white supremacists come in in a field with lighted torches veins bulging spewing the same antisemitic bile heard across Europe in the 30s,” he said. “Remember what the president said when asked, he said there were quote, very fine people on both sides. It was a wake-up call for us as a country. And for me, a call to action. At that moment I knew I’d have to run.” 

• Rose Ritch, vice president of the University of Southern California Undergraduate Student Government, says she had to resign from her post because she is a supporter of Israel. Wrote Ritch in an open letter: “I have been harassed and pressured for weeks by my fellow students because they opposed one of my identities. It is not because I am a woman, nor because I identify as queer, femme, or cisgender. All of these identities qualified me as electable when the student body voted last February. But because I also openly identify as a Zionist, a supporter of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.”

• Facebook has restricted thousands of groups and pages with ties to the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory. The social media site said that it had removed 790 Facebook groups and was restricting thousands of groups, accounts and pages on Facebook and its company Instagram.

• Posters glorifying Nazism were found on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University for the second time in less than a year. 

• “Free Palestine” was spray-painted in the driveway of Kenosha, Wisconsin’s historic synagogue amid the ongoing protests there.

• Israel’s offers assistance after a massive explosion in Beirut killed 172 and injured 6,000 The owner of the cargo ship the that arrived in the city’s port in 2013 carrying 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate prior to the explosion is linked to the Lebanese bank used by Hezbollah.

• Israeli firefighters arrive in Sacramento, Calif., to assist with battling a wave of wildfires sweeping through the area.

• Goyim TV, an antisemitic video-sharing website promoted by the “Goyim Defense League” with a “banner drop” from a Los Angeles freeway overpass, is taken down by its domain host under a flood of complaints. But followers are then directed to a similar site disseminating the same hateful ideology.

SEPTEMBER

• President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu join the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House to mark historic normalization agreements between Israel and the two Arab countries.

• A  Jewish former Marine wins the hotly contested Democratic congressional primary in Massachusetts to succeed Rep. Joe Kennedy III.

• After saying she would attend, progressive N.Y. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez withdraws from an Americans for Peace Now event memorializing the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated in 1995 for his efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians. Keith Ellison, the Minnesota attorney general and a leader of Democratic Party progressives, takes her place.

• A recent survey of non-Jewish Americans reveals that close to half are “unsure” or have ‘never heard of the term” antisemitism.

• For the first time in its 107-year-old history, a team representing the State of Israel — known as “Team Israel Start Up Nation” — participates in the 21-stage Tour de France, the most prestigious bicycle race in the world. 

• Jewish billionaire Steve Cohen is set to become the next owner of the New York Mets baseball team.

• An Instagram account calls on followers to identify Jewish high school students in Northern California’s Marin County. The account names Jewish students in the county and calls on followers to contribute the names of other Jewish students there.

• The national leadership of the NAACP announces that it will take over the Philadelphia chapter following an outcry over an antisemitic social media post by the chapter’s president, Rodney Muhammad. 

• An Uber passenger in Melbourne, Australia, orders his driver to pull over and let him out of the vehicle after finding out the driver was Jewish.

• Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi says that his government has moved away from plans to extend sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, and Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, in the wake of the recent agreement with the UAE.

• In response to a request from the UAE, Orthodox Union Kosher, the world’s largest kosher certification agency, says it will be the leading kosher certification agency within the Emirates, and do so in partnership with the local Jewish community.

• Leila Khaled, a Palestinian hijacker who was scheduled to speak at a virtual roundtable discussion organized by San Francisco State University is disinvited following a public outcry. Khaled, who was arrested in London for her part in the highjacking ,was later released in exchange for hostages from another hijacking.

• President Donald Trump is nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, in part for helping to broker the treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, dubbed the “Abraham Accord.”

• The Miami Herald apologizes for running antisemitic and racist ads in its Spanish-language publication el Nuevo Herald for months.

• Due to the pandemic, the 79th anniversary of the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar is marked by an online broadcast featuring Jewish and Israeli leaders, and the launch of an audio installation project at the site. But the controversy over how to preserve what has become known as the ‘Holocaust by bullets’ continues.

• According to a new study, 11% of Americans under 40 think Jews caused the Holocaust and 15% think it was a myth or has been exaggerated.

OCTOBER

• Israel marks the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with a series of commemorative events, including a special Knesset plenum session.

• In a ceremony held in Poland, Israel honors the couple who rescued Jewish film director Roman Polanski from the Holocaust. A grandson of Stefania and Jan Buchała accepted the medal naming them posthumously as Righteous Among the Nations, a title conferred upon non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis.

• A newly released report from the Department of Homeland Security names white supremacists as the biggest domestic terror threat in the United States. The Homeland Threat Assessment notes that, among other qualities, white supremacists are characterized by their hate of Jews, or by “their perception that the government is controlled by Jewish persons.”

• Israel Bonds celebrates its 70th anniversary. 

• A complaint filed with the department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights alleges that Jewish students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “face an unrelenting campaign of antisemitic harassment.”

• In response to the beheading of a schoolteacher in France by a radical Muslim, French President Emmanuel Macron announces a plan to crack down on radical Islam. The country’s Jewish community applauds his efforts.

• According to a landmark study, Jews share of the population of Europe is as low now as it was 1,000 years ago — and the future does not good.

• In his new film, Sacha Baron Cohen, as “Borat,” mocks antisemitic conspiracy theories.

• The New York Times drools over the notorious antisemite Louis Farrakahn in a piece defending him against accusations of sexism, in which no mention of his legacy of anti-Jewish or anti-gay remarks is mentioned.

• New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio expresses regret for how he handled the funeral of a prominent Orthodox rabbi which drew thousands into the street of Williamsburg in the early days of the pandemic. He was widely criticized for calling out the entire “Jewish community” and no others .

• American citizens born in Jerusalem are given permission to list Israel as their place of birth on their U.S. passport

• The Genesis Foundation announces that this year the public can vote on the winner of Israel’s prestigious Genesis Prize from among 7 finalists: Sacha Baron Cohen, Barbra Streisand, Justice Elena Kagan, Gal Gadot, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Marc Benioff and Steven Spielberg.

• Doctors in Israel save a newborn’s life with a rare surgical procedure performed before the boy was fully outside his mother’s body.

• The Jewish Democratic Council of America PAC releases a powerful ad that juxtaposes the recitation of the mourner’s Kaddish with President Trump’s rant and controversial statements about COVID-19. Republicans aren’t pleased.

• Protests by throngs of Orthodox Jews protesting against New York’s crackdown on gatherings in their neighborhoods turn tense and at times violent. In response Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio are careful not to utter the words “Jewish community.”

• HBO Max buys the rights to “Valley of Tears,” a drama about the 1973 Yom Kippur War that is touted as Israel’s biggest-budget TV series to date.

• In a late bid to boost President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects, Sheldon and Miriam Adelson reportedly give $75 million to a political action committee running ads targeting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. 

• Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, shares a meme on Facebook claiming that George Soros’ family is “evil” and “really running” the Democratic party.

• Following the lead of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, the video platform TikTok announces that it is expanding the range of hate content that it will ban from the network.

• The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, the largest American Jewish weekly west of New York, ceases print production and becomes an online-only publication.

• The Argentine Football Association adopts the definition of antisemitism developed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

NOVEMBER

• Former Vice President Joe Biden is declared winner of the presidential election after a vote that takes five days to count. Calling the election a fraud, President Donald Trump refuses to concede.

• Secretary of State Mike Pompeo formally notifies Congress that the U.S. plans to sell $23.4 billion of arms to the United Arab Emirates. The Senate calls on the State Department to ensure that the sale won’t “diminish Israel’s qualitative military edge” in the region.

• United Arab Emirates’ low-cost airline carrier, flydubai, announces that it would begin direct flights to Israel.

• Weeks after voting to rehire a principal who told a parent he “can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event,” a the Palm Beach County school board school reverses course and fires the principal.

• A United Nations committee resolution again ignores Jewish ties to the Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem, mimicking a pair of UNESCO resolutions that sparked controversy in 2016.

• Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera announces that his country intends to establish a permanent embassy in Jerusalem by next summer. 

• Alton Brown, an American television personality and chef, apologizes for tweeting a joke about the Holocaust.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has tested positive for COVID-19.

• The Palestinian Authority resumes security and financial ties with Israel — and Israel says it will resume funneling taxes to the Palestinian Authority.

• President-elect Joe Biden assures Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call that the ties between their countries will remain strong.

• Labour decides to reinstate as a member Jeremy Corbyn, the British party’s former leader, after his suspension for allegedly downplaying the party’s antisemitism problem.

• The foreign ministers of Israel and Bahrain announce that the two countries, which signed normalization agreements in September as part of the Abraham Accords, will open embassies in their respective countries by the end of the year.

• Theo Epstein, the wunderkind baseball executive who led the Chicago Cubs to its first World Series championship in more than a century in 2016, announces that he will step down as the club’s president of baseball operations after nine seasons.

• A new senior Pentagon adviser repeatedly says that U.S. support for Israel was due to money from the “Israeli lobby” and accuses prominent political figures, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, of getting “very, very rich” from their support for the Jewish state — echoing the antisemitic trope of Jewish money controlling politics and policy.

DECEMBER

• In his new book The Promised Land, former President Barak Obama kvetches about Israel and gives a factually inaccurate and misleading account of the history of the Jewish state.

• President-elect Joe Biden nominates Alejandro Mayorkas, a Latino Jew who has emphasized the heightened threat facing American Jews, as his Homeland Security secretary. Mayorkas was born in Cuba to a Cuban Jewish father and Romanian Jewish mother. His mother survived the Holocaust.

• The Council of the European Union invites all the bloc’s 27 members to adopt a definition of antisemitism that includes anti-Israel vitriol.

• Rapper Lord Jamar says “at most” 500,000 Jews died in the Holocaust. 

• One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s signature white lace jabot collars go on display at the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. The collar and a signed copy of the late Supreme Court justice’s autobiography, both personally donated to the museum by Ginsburg, are part of the new core exhibition. 

• The Trump White House throws an in-person Chanukah party, one of a series of recent events the administration has held despite coronavirus concerns.

• A San Francisco-area school district takes action after Jewish students face antisemitic harassment on social media for the second time this term.

• The New York Times includes works by two Israeli authors in its 100 Notable Books of 2020 list: Yishai Sarid for his book The Memory Monster, and A.B. Yehoshua for his book The Tunnel.

• Daniel Ackerman, a graphic designer from Boca Raton comes up with the winning design in a contest sponsored by the Israeli-American Council, to create a specialty license plate saying that “Florida Stands with Israel.” 

• Five years after his release on parole and two days after his travel restrictions ended, Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard releases a statement on his next steps, tempering expectations of a rapid relocation to Israel.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets at Ben-Gurion International Airport — the first group of Ethiopian immigrants to arrive in the country within the framework of “Operation Tzur Israel” (“Rock of Israel”).

• Israeli Tourism Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen and her Bahraini counterpart Zayed bin Rashid Al Zayani signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at a ceremony in Jerusalem. 

• President-elect Joe Biden announces that his plan to deal with Iran starts with reentering the 2015 nuclear deal without conditions.

• Rio de Janeiro inaugurates a Holocaust memorial that includes a 72-foot-tall tower and overlooks the Sugarloaf Mountain, one of South America’s most famous landmarks.

• The Trump administration rescinds Sudan’s status as a state sponsor of terrorism, part of the effort to establish ties between Israel and the Arab country. As part of the deal, Sudan reportedly agrees to pay $335 million to the victims of Al Qaeda’s attacks on the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998 and the USS Cole in 2000. Victims of 9/11 so far have refused to settle. In October, Trump brokered a normalization agreement between Israel and Sudan. But Sudan insists that the U.S. first remove it from its list of states that sponsor terrorism.

• Dawn Johnson, a Republican just elected a state representative in New Hampshire, apologized for sharing a post from the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer. “I have removed the report as it came from a source I do not agree with and thanks to a couple of people who showed me,” she said. No word from Johnson on why she was reading posts on a neo-Nazi website.

• The Jewish Democratic Council releases a video featuring the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the party’s challenger in one of two key Senate runoffs in Georgia, talking up the Black-Jewish alliance, in attempt to fend off attacks by his opponent Kelly Loeffler over past sermons in which the pastor was harshly critical of Israel.