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One point of consistency amid Trump’s rapid changes: a drumbeat of federal campus antisemitism investigations

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025Sara Wood

President Donald Trump has promised a tougher fight against campus antisemitism than what his predecessor Joe Biden offered. But on Monday he signaled that at least one aspect of Biden’s approach would continue: Title VI civil rights investigations. The federal Department of Education on Monday announced investigations into alleged “widespread antisemitic harassment” at five universities: […]

South Carolina’s Holocaust council is divided after chair cuts rabbi’s ‘political’ remarks from Auschwitz memorial broadcast

February 3, 2025February 4, 2025Sara Wood

At least one member of South Carolina’s Holocaust education council has resigned after the group’s chair edited a rabbi’s “political” speech commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz out of the event’s TV broadcast. But the council chair said in an interview that she stands by her decision, and said Rabbi Sam Rose’s speech tying the Holocaust […]

Netanyahu heads to Washington for what Trump says are ‘very big meetings’

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025Sara Wood

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set off for Washington, D.C., on Sunday, he told Israelis that he was looking forward to reconnecting with an old friend. “I’m leaving for a very important meeting with President Trump in Washington,” he said in a statement. “The fact that this would be President Trump’s first meeting with […]

‘I’m not waiting until they come to round us up’: Transgender Jews and their families search for safety as Trump takes aim at their rights

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025Sara Wood

After trying for five years to dissuade lawmakers in Missouri from enacting laws he believed would endanger his son and other transgender youth in the state, Russel Neiss finally admitted defeat. The state’s ban in 2023 on transgender medical care for minors devastated Neiss, but it also came with something of an upside for him: […]

Flight attendant killed in DC plane crash was Jewish youth group alum

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025Sara Wood

One of the flight attendants killed in the recent plane crash in Washington, D.C., was an alumnus of a Jewish youth group with a passion for travel and a talent for comedy. Ian Epstein, one of the four flight attendants on American Eagle Flight 5342, was an alumnus of the pluralist Jewish youth group BBYO, […]

Anglican church kicks out priest who mimicked Elon Musk’s Nazi-like salute at pro-life convention

January 30, 2025January 30, 2025Sara Wood

A British priest who delivered an Elon Musk-inspired, straight-armed salute during his address to a pro-life gathering last week has been kicked out of his church. The Anglican Catholic Church announced Wednesday that Father Calvin Robinson is “no longer serving as a priest” in the denomination. The removal of Robinson’s license came after he delivered […]

Unique Yad Vashem exhibit and street naming highlight NYC’s commitment to remember the Holocaust

January 29, 2025January 29, 2025Sara Wood

A unique Holocaust art exhibition opened this week in New York’s City Hall. In “The Wandering Jew,” a 1947 oil-and-canvas painting by Dutch artist Eliazer Neuberger, a barefoot man wearing torn garments gazes forward while behind him an elderly mysterious figure who evokes the prophet Elijah raises his hand in blessing. A 1945 pencil-and-watercolor drawing […]

Director of pro-Israel LGBTQ group faces sexual misconduct charge

January 29, 2025January 30, 2025Sara Wood

The director of a pro-Israel LGBTQ advocacy organization is facing a criminal charge stemming from his alleged sexual misconduct against a museum employee last year in Vermont. Ethan Felson, executive director of A Wider Bridge, was charged last November with lewd and lascivious conduct. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge and faces up […]

Jewish nonprofits say Trump’s federal funding freeze would threaten social services and security programs

January 28, 2025January 29, 2025Sara Wood

Jewish organizations that deliver a wide array of social services are scrambling to make sense of President Donald Trump’s unprecedented freeze on many forms of federal funding. “This has a massive, widespread impact,” said Reuben Rotman, president and CEO of the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies, a coalition of about 170 Jewish nonprofits and […]

Officials decry anti-Israel vandalism at NJ synagogue

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025Sara Wood

Anti-Israel protesters graffitied the property of a New Jersey synagogue that was hosting a talk by an Israeli soldier, drawing condemnation from local officials. On Sunday morning, anti-Israel demonstrators gathered in front of Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange, New Jersey, to protest a talk by members of the Israeli Air Force’s search-and-rescue unit. According […]