Passover celebrations this year will again occur amid anxieties and divisions among many Jews related to the unresolved Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and the specter of widespread antisemitism.

One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meetings in the United States this week was with American evangelicals on Monday.

Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day.

They’re hallmarks of American history: protests, rallies, sit-ins, marches, disruptions.