# Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-07-04 at 21:02

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Podcast: [Israel Today: Ongoing War Report](https://stenobird.com/podcast/israel-today-ongoing-war-report-6668940)
Published: 2026-07-05T01:02:24+00:00
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HEADLINES New York Jewish power fades amid antisemitism America celebrates 250 years shared values endure Rose Feldman finds freedom after police intervention The time is now 9:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In US Policy Concerning Israel, the United States has long viewed itself as a shining city upon a hill, a beacon whose moral and democratic mission has illuminated Israel and Jews around the world. Over 250 years, that self-image has translated into economic, military, and scientific preeminence, and into a set of values that stand for freedom and progress. As the nation marks this milestone, the relationship between America and the Jewish people is examined; that beacon has cast abundant light on the State of Israel and on Jews worldwide, and without it the Jewish story would have looked very different, far bleaker. The bond deepened as the United States opened its gates to some 2.5 million Jewish immigrants from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, and by 1910 there were more Jews in New York than in any other city, with many descendants spared the fate of the six million who perished in Europe. From that same historical perspective, Washington’s promise to US Jews remains a touchstone. In 1790, George Washington wrote to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport that the Government of the United States “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” Those words were revolutionary: equal citizenship secured by law, not toleration, so that Americans of every faith would sit not as guests but as equal members of one republic, able to sit in safety under their own vine and fig tree, and there would be none to make him afraid. For more than two centuries, American Jews have honored that promise. In An…

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