After a gunman murdered two people outside a Jewish museum, a wide range of major Jewish groups has asked the federal government to sharply increase its funding for religious institutions’ security to $1 billion. The request is one of several made by the coalition in the wake of the attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum […]
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The Trump administration has revoked its permission for Harvard University to enroll international students, in a dramatic escalation of what the Department of Homeland Security says is an effort to curb antisemitism at the university. The move “means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal […]
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Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man charged with killing two Israeli embassy employees outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, shot his victims multiple times, including firing at one repeatedly as she attempted to crawl away, according to an FBI agent’s account of the incident. The account was filed as the Justice Department […]
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On Wednesday night, three armed security officers stood guard as the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington held its annual meeting in the nation’s capital. On the agenda: discussions about the various ways antisemitic rhetoric can lead to violence. Hours later, JCRC CEO Ron Halber said, he found out about the deadly shooting of […]
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Political signs lined the windows of the Chicago apartment building of Elias Rodriguez, the man officials believe killed two Israeli embassy aides at a Jewish event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. One declared that the apartment was a “Proud Union Home” while another read “Justice for Wadea,” the 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was killed in […]
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A deadlocked Supreme Court on Thursday let stand a ruling that blocks Oklahoma from using public funds to operate what would have been the nation’s first religious charter school. The 4-4 split, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett recusing herself, means the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision barring the state from sponsoring St. Isidore of Seville Catholic […]
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Two months after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, a man with a gun walked up the steps of a synagogue in Albany, New York, and fired into the air while shouting, “Free Palestine.” Children were inside the building at the time. It was, it seemed, nearly a nightmare scenario for those anxious about […]
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At 12:52 a.m., just minutes after the name of one of the victims of the Capital Jewish Museum attack began to trickle out online, a social media user by the name of Mejd S tweeted a short message: “F— Yaron Lischinsky.” Ten minutes earlier, Mejd had trawled Lischinsky’s profile on X, where the Israeli embassy […]
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This is a developing story. Two people were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event. Both of the people killed were staffers at the Israeli embassy in Washington, according to Jewish and public officials. The shooting took place after 9 p.m. on Wednesday […]
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Dozens of Yeshiva University faculty say they “deplore and oppose” the school’s decision to give its highest award to Rep. Elise Stefanik, saying the prize politicizes commencement ceremonies and rewards an extremist official. Stefanik, a member of House Republican leadership, will receive the school’s Presidential Medallion. She is being recognized alongside Rachel Goldberg-Polin, who will […]
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