Author: Sara Wood

An Applebee’s in Miamisburg, Ohio was closed Saturday after employees discovered the building had been defaced with antisemitic graffiti including a swastika and the messages “F— Jews” and “Jews work here.” “We’ve seen the statistics, an 893-percent increase in antisemitic incidents in the United States over the past decade according to the ADL,” Cathy Gardner, […]

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker rebuked President Donald Trump for “disparaging the very foundation of Judaism” in a fiery address in New Hampshire Sunday night. “Stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about antisemitism. When you destroy social justice, you are disparaging the […]

President Donald Trump said he would not let the United States be “dragged in” to war with Iran by Israel — because he would join in an Israeli offensive willingly if Iran does not accede to his demands limitings its nuclear ambitions. He also said there was “tremendous antisemitism going on in this country,” said […]

Over 550 rabbis and cantors have signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration for “abusing the issue” of antisemitism, joining a growing chorus of opposition from Jewish leaders. The letter, published Monday and titled “A Call to Moral Clarity: Rejecting Antisemitism as a Political Wedge,” was organized by two progressive Jewish groups — the Israel […]

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson came under fire from local Jewish leaders after he wore a keffiyeh, or a traditional Palestinian headscarf, to a public event this week. The Chicago chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations posted a picture of Johnson with its executive director, Ahmed Rehab, at an event to mark Arab Heritage Month. […]

Jewish leaders in Savannah, Georgia, snapped into action Friday after seeing a social media post with a flyer for a party that included an apparently antisemitic message. The flyer purported to invite students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to a party that included a list of instructions for the affair written in […]

The Justice Department announced Friday that it will walk back the cancellations of hundreds of student visas amid mounting legal pressure. It was not immediately clear whether the reversals would affect any of the high-profile cases of students whose visas were revoked because of their participation in pro-Palestinian protests. Instead, the announcement related directly to […]

Deborah Lipstadt, President Joe Biden’s antisemitism envoy, says parts of the Trump administration’s crackdown on campus antisemitism have “gone way too far.” In an interview, she declined to comment on specific cases that have unfolded since the White House began cracking down on pro-Palestinian student activists. But she denounced the conditions under which some of […]

As soon as news broke this week that the Food and Drug Administration was suspending federal testing of commercially produced milk, the Orthodox Union’s hotline lit up. The flood of inquiries was “off the hook … crazy: emails, calls, WhatsApp, everything,” said Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, chair of the dairy committee at O.U. Kosher, the most recognizable […]