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 By Jacob Gurvis    News    February 2, 2024

Robert Kraft's Foundation to Combat Antisemitism to run 30-second Super Bowl ad

(JTA) — As reports of antisemitism have surged since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Jewish groups have sought to spotlight the issue through rallies, news coverage, billboards and social media campaigns. Next month, it will receive airtime d...

 
 By JTA staff    News    January 26, 2024

DeSantis exits presidential race

(JTA) - Ron DeSantis' decision to end his presidential campaign leaves Nikki Haley as the only serious Republican challenger to Donald Trump, potentially consolidating her support among Jewish voters and donors in the party who seek an alternative...

 

Outright Jew-hatred and support for terrorists on display during 'March for Gaza' in Washington

(JNS) - Speakers at a "March for Gaza" in Washington on Jan. 13 promised that Israel would cease to exist and, to the cheers of thousands of attendees, accused U.S. President Joe Biden of supporting...

 

'Persistent, threatening' Jew-hatred at American U

(JNS) — A hostile environment toward Jews and Israelis has been growing for years at American University, in Washington, D.C., “but has intensified following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israelis,” according to a 26-page complaint filed with the U...

 
 By Luke Tress    News    January 19, 2024

What happened at Chabad's Brooklyn headquarters?

(New York Jewish Week) – On Tuesday, a group of Jewish men gathered to pray under a leaky white tent in the drizzling rain outside the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's world headquarters in Crown H...

 
 By Jacob Gurvis    News    January 19, 2024

Jewish guide to the 2024 GOP presidential contenders

(JTA) — With the arrival of the Iowa Caucus on Monday, the 2024 presidential primary season is officially underway — and so is the race to win the votes of Jewish and pro-Israel voters. Four Republicans are vying to be the candidate to face off aga...

 
 By Deborah Danan    News    January 19, 2024

Penn professors spent the week in Israel

(JTA) — After Oct. 7, Michael Kahana joined hundreds of his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania in signing an open letter condemning Hamas and expressing support for Israel and its right to self defense. But the psychology professor w...

 

ZOA urges Johns Hopkins to reinstate suspended doctor

Recently, the Heritage brought to its readers’ attention the suspension of Dr. Darren Klugman, a pediatric cardiologist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, for sharing his emotional anti-Hamas, pro-Israel comments on social media (...

 

A murder victim was anonymous for 13 years - Jewish genealogists found her name

(JTA) — On March 29, 2011, the body of a decapitated woman was discovered in a vineyard in Arvin, a town just over the Los Angeles county line. Earlier this month, nearly 13 years later, the victim was identified as Ada Beth Kaplan, a Jewish woman w...

 
 By Julia Gergely    News    January 19, 2024

A messy morning commute in NYC as pro-Palestinian protests shut down East River bridges and Holland Tunnel

(New York Jewish Week) — Commuters faced major delays Monday morning as several pro-Palestinian protests shut down traffic on the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges on the East River as well as the Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River l...

 
 By Andrew Lapin    News    January 12, 2024

Citing risk to Elie Wiesel's 'Night,' Iowa judge blocks key parts of state book ban law

(JTA) – A federal judge in Iowa has blocked much of a state law forbidding school libraries from stocking books depicting “sex acts,” in part because he said it was keeping a classic Holocaust memoir off shelves. U.S. District Court Judge Steph...

 
 By Andrew Lapin    News    January 12, 2024

Claudine Gay resigns from Harvard

(JTA) – Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned in the wake of plagiarism allegations and months-long criticism of her response to allegations of antisemitism at the school. Gay is the...

 
 By Ron Kampeas    News    January 5, 2024

What you need to know about Dean Phillips, the Jewish congressman running for president

(JTA) — Dean Phillips is running for president. And he wants to talk. Talking runs in the Jewish Minnesota congressman’s family — his grandmother is Dear Abby. And he’s friends with Ilhan Omar, d...

 
 By Andrew Lapin    News    January 5, 2024

Feds to probe University of North Carolina's response to harsh anti-Israel speech

(JTA) – Earlier this month, a lawyer acting on information from a pro-Israel group of North Carolinians told the federal government that their state’s flagship public university should be investigated for allowing anti-Israel rhetoric on campus. Now...

 

Deeply offensive,' Holocaust Museum says of now-canceled protest

(JNS) — The members of Doctors Against Genocide, which calls itself “a global health coalition committed to stopping genocide” and has some 3,100 combined followers on Instagram and X, may have taken their Hippocratic Oaths. But the group first did a...

 
 By Andrew Bernard    News    January 5, 2024

NY GOP taps Ethiopian-born, Orthodox IDF veteran to replace Santos

(JNS) — New York Republicans selected Mazi Melesa Pilip, an Ethiopian-born, Orthodox Jew and Israel Defense Forces veteran, on Thursday to run for New York’s 3rd Congressional District. A current Nassau County legislator, Pilip is running for the...

 
 By Ron Kampeas    News    December 29, 2023

House calls on MIT, Harvard presidents to resign over campus antisemitism, with 125 Democrats voting against

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. House of Representatives called on the presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to resign after they declined to say clearly in a congressional hearing that their schools would take a...

 
 By Jacob Gurvis    News    December 29, 2023

Lincoln Memorial vandalized with 'Free Gaza' graffiti

(JTA) — The Lincoln Memorial closed temporarily on Wednesday after its steps were vandalized with graffiti reading “Free Gaza” in multiple places. U.S. Park Police are investigating the graffiti, which was discovered Wednesday morning at the Washi...

 

The double standard of free speech may cost one doctor his career

There is a petition circulating, initiated by Defenders of Free Speech, to stand with Dr. Darren Klugman, who is a doctor and professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. On Oct. 7, Dr. Klugman spoke out about the atrocities committed...

 

Rabbi David Wolpe: 'I am hopeful that Harvard is not a lost cause'

(JNS) - David Wolpe, rabbi emeritus of Sinai Temple, a conservative synagogue in Los Angeles, joined Harvard University's Antisemitism Advisory Group in the hopes that he could persuade the school to...

 
 By Jacob Gurvis    News    December 29, 2023

Menorahs across the US are vandalized

(JTA) — In Oakland, California, an 11-foot-tall Chanukah menorah was broken and thrown into a lake. In New Haven, Connecticut, a Palestinian flag was planted in a publicly displayed menorah. In Juno Beach, Florida, a menorah made of sand was d...

 
 By Andrew Lapin    News    December 29, 2023

MIT federal civil rights investigations

(JTA) – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Davis, both of which have recently experienced widely publicized episodes of conflict around Israel, are among six new institutions facing U.S. Department of E...

 

Jewish NFL player kicks game-winning field goal in his 'I Stand with Israel' cleats

(JTA) — ​​A 3-0 score is extremely rare in the NFL. But when the Minnesota Vikings beat the Las Vegas Raiders Sunday night in the league’s lowest-scoring game since 2007, the moment held extra significance for the player who scored those three p...

 

JFNA fundraising passes $700m

(JNS) — The Jewish Federation of North America announced recently that its post-Oct. 7 fundraising has surpassed $700 million. The $242 million that it has allocated—of the $711.5 million raised—is going to about 300 partnering organizations, includi...

 
 By Jacob Gurvis    News    December 22, 2023

Rabbi David Wolpe resigns from Harvard antisemitism committee

(JTA) — Rabbi David Wolpe is stepping down from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard University, citing “events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony” of the university’s president, Claudine Gay, during a congressional hearing...

 

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