It’s been days since Hurricane Helene struck her community, and the CEO of Jewish Greenville still doesn’t know who is OK and who still needs help. “It’s very much a crisis situation for many people here,” Courtney Tessler told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, about the Jewish community she serves in South Carolina’s upstate region. “Our […]
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A Jewish student at the University of Pittsburgh was assaulted off campus early Friday morning by a group of six to eight men who used antisemitic and anti-Israel language during the attack, according to the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. A police report posted on Friday said the student told police that the group saw his […]
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, the public intellectual whose writing has sparked national conversations about reparations and race in the United States, has written a book indicting Israel for its mistreatment of Palestinians and occupation of their territory. “The Message,” which comes out Tuesday, is Coates’ first nonfiction book in nearly a decade. It is a collection of […]
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An investigation into misconduct complaints against the two administrators of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles found no ethical violation warranting public action against them. The investigation arose from allegations by former students at the rabbinical school that Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, the school’s dean, and his deputy, Rabbi Cheryl Peretz, fostered […]
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A major organizing body for university faculty is pressuring Muhlenberg College to explain its firing of a tenured Jewish anti-Zionist professor for “bias-related conduct” over an Instagram post that encouraged “shaming Zionists.” The Pennsylvania liberal arts college’s decision to fire Maura Finkelstein, which it has not acknowledged publicly, came after months of scrutiny surrounding her […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to keep fighting in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon until his war objectives were reached and warned that “there is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach.” Netanyahu’s speech Friday at the United Nations General Assembly opening came as Israel hit a key Hezbollah […]
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WASHINGTON — Laura Loomer, the far-right Jewish activist who has grown close to Donald Trump, portrays herself as a courageous voice willing to speak out against those who wish harm to the Jewish people. She has also, in recent years, been embraced by some of the most prominent figures accused of antisemitism, from the rapper […]
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Mike Lindell, the outspoken Donald Trump ally and CEO of MyPillow, says he did not know the number $14.88 was a neo-Nazi symbol when he advertised it as the new price of one of his products. Customers who visit the pillow company’s website can purchase the “Classic Collection” for $14.88, a price MyPillow advertised on […]
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Brandeis University President Ronald Liebowitz announced his resignation Wednesday morning after he lost a vote of no confidence from faculty. Liebowitz’s resignation, which takes effect Nov. 1, comes amid steep financial challenges for the historically Jewish university. Brandeis announced in May that it would lay off 60 employees and restructure several programs to cut costs. […]
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One day before its meeting earlier this month, the University of Washington Board of Regents postponed a highly consequential item that was on its agenda: a vote related to an Israel divestment proposal. But if the public university in Seattle hoped to curb disruptions at the meeting, it didn’t work. Protesters, many of them motivated […]
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