Over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security’s X account appeared to reference an antisemitic dog whistle. And it wasn’t the first time that happened this summer. “Which way, American man?” the department’s official page posted Sunday, over a political cartoon from 1936 called “Uncle Sam at the Crossroads.” The post, a recruitment ad for […]
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It’s not easy getting teens to think about God. Even if they go to Jewish day school. When one Jewish educational organization asked day school students in middle school and high school several years ago to respond to the question, “What percentage of your time in Judaic studies do you spend talking explicitly about God?”, […]
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In the 18 years that Julie Sandorf has served as its president, the Charles H. Revson Foundation has launched and supported initiatives in Israel that she admits are hard to categorize. There’s the fellowship for young Israelis interested in urban planning. An effort to expand civic service — an alternative to military service — to […]
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A coalition of California’s leading Jewish groups has come out against the Trump administration’s recent demand that the University of California, Los Angeles pay $1 billion to resolve federal antisemitism allegations. The proposed $1 billion settlement “does not make Jewish students safer,” the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California argued Tuesday. JPAC’s statement comes days […]
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The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it had found George Washington University in violation of federal civil rights law for acting “deliberately indifferent to the hostile educational environment for Jewish, American-Israeli, and Israeli students and faculty.” The announcement marks the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s campaign against colleges it says have fostered antisemitism, […]
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When the Conservative movement’s ethics committee opened an investigation into his participation in interfaith weddings, Rabbi Ari Yehuda Saks didn’t wait for the verdict. On Sunday, the third-generation Conservative rabbi resigned from the Rabbinical Assembly, saying he considers helping Jews who choose to wed outside their religion part of a rabbi’s duty to bless and […]
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The UJA-Federation of New York will send $1 million to an Israeli humanitarian group providing aid to civilians in Gaza, the federation’s CEO announced on Friday. The funds will go to IsraAID, Israel’s largest nongovernmental aid organization, to supply food, medicine and water filtration systems for displaced Gazans. IsraAID has traditionally operated in disaster zones […]
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A fire early Friday morning destroyed a historic synagogue and Jewish community center in Rutherford, New Jersey, as the congregation’s rabbi and his family escaped unharmed. The four-alarm fire broke out at approximately 2:45 a.m. at Congregation Beth El Chabad. Rabbi Yitzchok Lerman, his wife, and four of their children were sleeping in an apartment […]
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The man accused of fatally shooting two Israeli embassy staffers in the back at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., in May was indicted Wednesday on federal hate crime charges. Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, was indicted on nine new charges, including local charges as well as two federal counts of hate crime resulting […]
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Chicago has many hallmarks of a thriving Jewish community: dozens of synagogues of every denomination, a range of kosher restaurants and bakeries and one of the largest Jewish federations in the country. But locals have long lamented one big gap: a Jewish high school within the city limits. Now, a parent-led initiative to open one […]
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