Author: Sara Wood

Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian student protest leader arrested on Monday during a citizenship appointment, should be deported because his activism undercuts efforts to end the war in Gaza, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has argued in a memo. The argument contained in the memo, written last month and obtained by the New York Times, adds […]

The man suspected of setting fire to the home of Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, Josh Shapiro, said he targeted Shapiro because of “what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” according to a search warrant signed by state police and quoted by local news outlets. Law enforcement said that Cody Balmer, the 38-year-old Harrisburg resident, […]

A Jewish family was killed Saturday when their private plane crashed en route to upstate New York to celebrate Passover. Among those lost in Sunday’s crash were siblings Karenna Groff, 25, and Jared Groff, 26, and their parents, surgeons Michael Groff and Joy Saini. Karenna’s boyfriend James Santoro and Jared’s girlfriend Alexia Couyutas Duarte, 24, […]

Harvard University was hit by a $2.2 billion federal funding freeze on Monday, hours after the school’s president announced they would not bend to a list of demands by the Trump administration that included expanding efforts to combat antisemitism on its campus. In a letter to the Harvard community, Harvard’s President Alan Garber lambasted the […]

A Pennsylvania man will be charged with terrorism and attempted murder after allegedly firebombing the official residence of Gov. Josh Shapiro, hours after Shapiro and his family hosted a Passover seder there. On Saturday, Shapiro posted a picture of a table set for the seder on social media, with the message, “From the Shapiro family’s […]

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protest leader arrested by ICE at Columbia University, can be deported, a federal immigration judge ruled Friday. The ruling by Jamee Comans, a Louisiana immigration judge, is the most significant development in Khalil’s case since he was arrested in his apartment building almost exactly a month ago and accused by the […]

Two planes carrying members of Congress as well as the released Israeli hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel clipped wings on the taxiway at Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday. The two American Airlines jets were taxiing when their winglets came into contact at the Washington, D.C. airport. No injuries were reported on the planes. Also […]

A group of 27 Jewish organizations and synagogues have filed an amicus brief voicing their support for Rümeysa Öztürk, the detained Tufts University doctoral student, the latest in a string of Jewish voices objecting to her arrest. The brief calls antisemitism a “persistent scourge” and says that fighting it is “laudable,” but adds, “arresting, detaining, […]

In advance of a pivotal court hearing this week in the deportation case of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protest leader at Columbia University, a judge demanded that the State Department lay out its case against him. Now, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has done so, in a two-page memo that says “beliefs, statements, or associations” […]

To over 300,000 TikTok followers, Hayim Nissim Cohen was a rabbi who had taken in nine adoptive sons and documented their Jewish lives. But after one of the children spoke out about the sexual abuse that was happening off-camera, that illusion came crashing down. On Monday, Cohen, 40, pleaded guilty in a Houston state court […]