On Wednesday night, three armed security officers stood guard as the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington held its annual meeting in the nation’s capital. On the agenda: discussions about the various ways antisemitic rhetoric can lead to violence. Hours later, JCRC CEO Ron Halber said, he found out about the deadly shooting of […]
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Political signs lined the windows of the Chicago apartment building of Elias Rodriguez, the man officials believe killed two Israeli embassy aides at a Jewish event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. One declared that the apartment was a “Proud Union Home” while another read “Justice for Wadea,” the 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was killed in […]
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A deadlocked Supreme Court on Thursday let stand a ruling that blocks Oklahoma from using public funds to operate what would have been the nation’s first religious charter school. The 4-4 split, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett recusing herself, means the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision barring the state from sponsoring St. Isidore of Seville Catholic […]
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Two months after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, a man with a gun walked up the steps of a synagogue in Albany, New York, and fired into the air while shouting, “Free Palestine.” Children were inside the building at the time. It was, it seemed, nearly a nightmare scenario for those anxious about […]
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At 12:52 a.m., just minutes after the name of one of the victims of the Capital Jewish Museum attack began to trickle out online, a social media user by the name of Mejd S tweeted a short message: “F— Yaron Lischinsky.” Ten minutes earlier, Mejd had trawled Lischinsky’s profile on X, where the Israeli embassy […]
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This is a developing story. Two people were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event. Both of the people killed were staffers at the Israeli embassy in Washington, according to Jewish and public officials. The shooting took place after 9 p.m. on Wednesday […]
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Dozens of Yeshiva University faculty say they “deplore and oppose” the school’s decision to give its highest award to Rep. Elise Stefanik, saying the prize politicizes commencement ceremonies and rewards an extremist official. Stefanik, a member of House Republican leadership, will receive the school’s Presidential Medallion. She is being recognized alongside Rachel Goldberg-Polin, who will […]
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George Washington University says it will ban a student commencement speaker from campus after she used her graduation speech to decry “genocide” in Gaza and urged her graduating class not to donate to the school until it agrees to divest from Israel. Pro-Israel students and alumni had urged the school to discipline the speaker and […]
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Over a quarter of Jewish adults in the United States say they consult astrology or a horoscope at least once or twice a year, according to a new study. The study by the Pew Research Center survey, published Wednesday, surveyed U.S. opinion on astrology, tarot cards and fortune tellers. It found that 18% of American […]
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A man appointed to an advisory committee by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has stepped down amid outcry over a 2023 video of him tearing down Israeli hostage posters. Ishan Daya was one of 20 appointees to Johnson’s new Chicago Fiscal Sustainability Working Group. His website identifies him as a community organizer focused on public safety […]
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