The Trump administration on Friday fired two judges who blocked the deportations of international students involved in pro-Palestinian activism. One of the judges, Roopal Patel, a Boston immigration court judge, oversaw the Trump administration’s immigration case against Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Tufts University doctoral student who was detained by ICE agents on the street in […]
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This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Quinn Fleming, a sophomore at Winter Park High School near Orlando, Florida, said her only experience with Holocaust education was reading a short text in eighth […]
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U.S.-Iranian peace talks ended without a deal on Saturday and President Donald Trump announced a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, leaving the future of the current ceasefire in doubt. In Israel, which launched the war against Iran jointly with the United States, the ceasefire has brought a return to normal operations in much […]
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Dan Bilzerian, the mega-influencer who’s spread conspiracy theories about Jews and said he wants to “kill Israelis,” is running for Congress. Bilzerian registered this week to run in the Republican primary against the Jewish far-right firebrand Rep. Randy Fine in Florida’s sixth district. Bilzerian initially gained fame for his Instagram photos alongside bikini-clad women but […]
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A rabbi at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, has publicly chastised a candidate for U.S. Senate in her state who grew up near the temple, for what she said was an “offensive” response to the recent attack on her synagogue. Rabbi Jen Lader criticized Abdul El-Sayed, a physician and former county health executive, for […]
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The Democratic National Committee will not vote on a resolution that condemns the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC specifically, after a sub-committee rejected the resolution on Thursday during the DNC’s annual meeting in New Orleans. The DNC’s Resolutions Committee instead advanced a resolution condemning “dark money” more broadly in electoral politics. AIPAC is one of several lobbies […]
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance is headed to Pakistan on Friday for in-person talks to reach a permanent end to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran — with Israel’s continued campaign against the Iranian proxy Hezbollah a certain topic of discussion. Israel and the United States have maintained that the deal struck between Iran and the […]
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Six in 10 Americans say they have a very or somewhat unfavorable view of Israel, up 20 points since 2022, according to a new Pew Research Center survey released this week. About half of them say they have a “very unfavorable” view of Israel, a proportion that has tripled in the last four years. The […]
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Jewish groups were among those criticizing President Donald Trump and accusing him of using genocidal rhetoric on Tuesday after Trump posted online that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” wrote Trump in a post […]
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A national nonprofit that supports interfaith Jewish families has slashed its workforce after facing an unanticipated budget shortfall. 18Doors announced on March 31 that it had “significantly” reduced its staff due to budget constraints. In fact, about two-thirds of the staff were laid off the week before the announcement, board member Laurie Beijen told the […]
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