The Department of Government Efficiency’s cancellation last year of the majority of federal humanities grants, including to several Jewish projects, was unlawful and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Thursday. In her 143-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon called out the agency created by President Donald Trump specifically for its targeting of Jewish projects, including […]
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As anti-LGBTQ legislation proliferated across the United States in late 2024, leaders at two Jewish nonprofits began discussing the mounting crisis for LGBTQ Americans who no longer felt safe in their home states but lacked the financial means to leave. Now, some of those individuals are receiving interest-free loans to help finance their moves through […]
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The man charged with carrying out a deadly firebombing attack on a march for Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado, last year was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Thursday after pleading guilty to muder and dozens of other charges. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national who was arrested at the […]
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The Anti-Defamation League’s local leader decried a plea deal reached Tuesday that is expected to spare the man charged with causing the 2023 death of Jewish protester Paul Kessler from being sent to prison. Instead, Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji would face no more than a year in county jail. Alnaji, 53, of Moorpark, California, admitted […]
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Ohio gubernatorial candidate Casey Putsch, whose rhetoric has included antisemitic dogwhistles, did not come close to winning the Republican primary on Tuesday. But he was not swept aside by the electorate, either: Nearly 150,000 Ohio Republicans voted for him, making up 17.5% of voters. Vivek Ramaswamy, the former presidential candidate who had President Donald Trump’s […]
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The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington is calling on a local school district in Maryland to adopt a “zero tolerance policy” toward antisemitism following what it described as a recent wave of anti-Jewish incidents across its schools. Antisemitic and anti-Israel graffiti found at Greenwood Elementary School over the weekend was only the latest […]
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Administrators at Rutgers University have canceled a commencement speaker scheduled for next week, citing an “inflammatory claim” the speaker tweeted about Israel. Rami Elghandour, a Rutgers alumnus and a producer of an Oscar-nominated docudrama about a Palestinian girl who died in Gaza, was set to deliver the speech at the university’s School of Engineering on […]
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The man charged with firebombing a Boulder, Colorado, march for Israeli hostages in 2025 will plead guilty to killing one person and attempting to kill others in the incident, according to documents filed in the case over the weekend. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who was arrested at the scene of the June 1, 2025, attack, is […]
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The University of Michigan has issued a formal apology after its faculty senate chair went off-script to praise pro-Palestinian student protesters during last weekend’s commencement address. Derek Peterson, who also praised the memory of the school’s first Jewish professor in his speech, had drawn criticism from Michigan Hillel and from major organizations including the American […]
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Leon Botstein will end his half-century tenure as president of Bard College following an investigation commissioned by the school into his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, the school’s Board of Trustees announced late Friday. “Nothing that President Botstein did in connection with his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was illegal, but President Botstein made decisions […]
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