When Jeffrey Epstein turned 50 in 2003, his then-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell assembled a 238-page tribute album to mark the occasion. The so-called birthday book, handed over by Epstein’s estate to the House Oversight Committee and made public this week, is lurid and unsettling: filled with crude drawings of women’s bodies, tales of sexual conquest, and […]
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An anonymous group of Jewish student activists has broken away from Jewish Voice for Peace to form a new national organization, the Anti-Zionist Jewish Student Front, that pledges to escalate campaigns against Zionism on college campuses. In a statement released this week, the group framed itself as part of what it termed a global “student […]
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A round of layoffs at the University of Oregon that Judaic studies professors had feared would affect their program appears to have spared them entirely. No tenured or tenure-track faculty or degree programs will be affected as part of the latest round of budget cuts intended to address a $29 million deficit, university administrators announced […]
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Congregation Shaare Zion, a large Orthodox synagogue serving the Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn, is taking an unprecedented step in the run-up to New York City’s mayoral election: Members and their spouses must show proof of voter registration before they can secure seats for the High Holidays. One of the largest Sephardic synagogues in the country, […]
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Amid sharp criticism, Los Angeles’ Holocaust museum deleted an Instagram post over the weekend that proclaimed, ”’Never again’ can’t only mean never again for Jews.” The museum apologized for the post and shot down speculation that it had been intended to suggest that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. The post showed six interlocking arms, […]
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President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Friday evening that the administration was in “deep negotiation” with Hamas, adding that some of the remaining living Israeli hostages held in Gaza may have “recently died.” “We’re in very deep negotiation with Hamas. We said, let them all out right now, let them all out, […]
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After more than a year of strife over his handling of campus antisemitism, the Jewish president of Northwestern University says he is stepping down weeks before the start of the school’s fall semester. Michael Schill’s resignation announcement Thursday comes after the Trump administration has frozen nearly $800 million in federal grants to the private Evanston, […]
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Time is nearly running out for California lawmakers to pass a signature bill aimed at curbing antisemitism in K-12 education. If AB 715 becomes law, it will mark the first time a state creates an antisemitism watchdog for public schools, potentially setting a template for others. The bill is also a major test case for […]
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration had illegally frozen more than $2.6 billion in federal funding to Harvard University over claims of antisemitism. In her 84-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs wrote that the Trump administration had used allegations of antisemitism at top U.S. universities as a “smokescreen” for advancing its […]
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Dozens of Jewish studies scholars from across the world have kicked off the fall semester by sending an unusual letter to leaders of the University of Oregon, one with a stinging accusation. “Why don’t UO’s administrative leaders want UO students to learn about Jews?” the scholars wrote to Oregon’s president, provost and board of trustees […]
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