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Senior ADL antisemitism researcher leaves to lead competing effort at watchdog Nexus

January 29, 2026January 30, 2026Sara Wood

Aryeh Tuchman, a veteran antisemitism researcher who spent nearly two decades at the Anti-Defamation League, is joining the Nexus Project, a rival watchdog, to lead a new center devoted to researching antisemitism. The move brings a senior figure from the country’s most prominent antisemitism watchdog to an organization that has repeatedly challenged the ADL’s approach […]

Father of former Israeli hostage joins Columbia as a Jewish history professor

January 28, 2026January 28, 2026Sara Wood

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of a former Israeli hostage, has been appointed to join Columbia University as a professor of history with a course load that includes instruction about modern Israel. Dekel-Chen’s son Sagui spent 498 days in captivity in Gaza after he was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel, […]

Conservative British pro-Israel commentator Douglas Murray joins Yeshiva University

January 28, 2026January 29, 2026Sara Wood

Yeshiva University has announced that prominent British conservative author and pro-Israel commentator Douglas Murray will teach a class at the school this spring. Murray, who is not Jewish, was appointed as the school’s inaugural President’s Professor of Practice, a role the flagship modern Orthodox university in New York City billed as bringing “a leading public […]

Federal building with murals by Jewish artists at risk of sale, demolition

January 28, 2026January 31, 2026Sara Wood

A federal building in Washington D.C. known for its murals crafted by important Jewish artists is at risk of demolition. Now, activists are calling on New York City’s Jewish Museum for support to prevent the sale — and possible destruction — of the Wilbur J. Cohen Building. The Jewish Museum recently concluded a retrospective of […]

Grandson of survivors barred from UN Holocaust memorial event after photographing Lizzy Savetsky’s encounter with security

January 27, 2026January 27, 2026Sara Wood

The grandson of Holocaust survivors was blocked from attending the United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day event in New York City after taking a photograph of influencer Lizzy Savetsky’s confrontation with security over an Israeli flag. Julian Voloj was going through the security line at the U.N. General Assembly Hall when he saw security guards “harassing” […]

Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino decries ICE ‘Gestapo’ comparisons as critics target ‘Nazi-coded’ coat

January 27, 2026January 28, 2026Sara Wood

Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol commander-at-large who has led federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, pushed back against critics who compared ICE agents to the Gestapo in Nazi Germany. “They’re trying to portray Border Patrol agents and ICE agents as Gestapo, Nazi and many other words,” Bovino told CNN on Sunday, pronouncing the word “Gestapo” with […]

NJ church deletes video of pageant featuring antisemitic character but says critics took it ‘out of context’

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026Sara Wood

A New Jersey church says it is “committed to engaging in dialogue, and teaching others about our heritage” after putting on a Christmas pageant that drew criticism for reflecting antisemitic stereotypes. St. Mary Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s pageant, known as a vertep, featured an antagonist named Moshko who danced with the devil while wearing faux […]

As Habonim Dror camps open space for anti-Zionist views, some families push back

January 26, 2026January 27, 2026Sara Wood

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. In the summer of 2025, Habonim Dror North America, a progressive Labor Zionist youth movement, implemented a new principle, or pillar, welcoming non–Zionist and anti-Zionist perspectives […]

Ye apologizes for his antisemitism in Wall Street Journal ad: ‘I lost touch with reality’

January 26, 2026January 27, 2026Sara Wood

Ye has again issued a formal apology for his recent years of antisemitic tirades, taking out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal in which he attributed his actions to his prior health conditions. “I lost touch with reality,” the rapper and fashion mogul formerly known as Kanye West writes in the ad. Later, […]

Jewish voices rise up with concern following ICE killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

January 26, 2026February 1, 2026Sara Wood

After Alex Pretti was shot and killed on Saturday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jewish voices were among the many that quickly rose up in condemnation. The voices have included both progressive Jewish groups that regularly inveigh against right-wing policies and, increasingly, mainstream groups that say they represent American Jews […]