The Trump administration has withdrawn a controversial demand for the University of Pennsylvania to produce a list of Jewish employees as part of a larger investigation into alleged employment discrimination at the Ivy League university. The withdrawal ends a round of lawsuits over the legality of such a demand, which alarmed Jewish groups on campus […]
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In the span of a few hours, Hillel International filed, then withdrew, an amicus brief supporting Harvard University in its ongoing legal battle with the Trump administration over campus antisemitism enforcement procedures. A representative for the Hillel parent organization told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the original 22-page brief filed on Wednesday “was filed without having […]
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The U.S. civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia is contingent on normalization with Israel and would not allow for the production of atomic weapons, President Donald Trump wrote Thursday in a post on Truth Social. The deal signed Wednesday by U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman […]
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Reed College has agreed to a host of far-reaching institutional changes, including asserting that targeting Jewish Zionists will be considered discriminatory, in order to settle multiple federal antisemitism investigations, parties to the complaint announced Wednesday. The settlement was announced by the Anti-Defamation League and the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which jointly filed […]
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JERUSALEM — A U.S. civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia announced by the Trump administration on Wednesday is alarming some Israelis and Americans. Critics are concerned that the deal, through which U.S. companies would help Saudi Arabia build civilian nuclear energy plants, could allow Saudi Arabia to eventually develop nuclear weapons. The proposed plants would […]
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his administration has concluded the city does not have the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he visit New York. But he lacerated Netanyahu in a two-minute video posted to social media late Tuesday and exhorted federal authorities to enforce the International Criminal Court […]
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The manager of a movie theater in suburban Portland, Oregon, is defending a cryptic marquee message about Jews and “The Odyssey” by saying modern-day antisemitism is “exaggerated” to help Israel. “Before there were the Jews, there was … ‘The Odyssey,’” said the marquee at the Lake Theater and Cafe in Lake Oswego. Local Jewish clergy, […]
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J Street is defending its decision to co-sponsor the College Democrats of America convention after critics accused the liberal pro-Israel group of endorsing the anti-Zionist streamer Hasan Piker, who was a featured speaker at the event. In a statement posted Monday, J Street said its campus arm, J Street U, spent “a couple thousand dollars […]
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This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. The last time the Pew Research Center checked, in 2020, 17% of American Jewish households include a child or adult who is non-white or multiracial. While […]
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For many Orthodox Jews, a typical winter weekday begins early: head to synagogue, gather in a minyan for morning prayers, then rush off to work. Orthodox Jewish groups say a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent could upend that routine by pushing winter sunrises — and the earliest permissible time for some prayers […]
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