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Over 550 rabbis and cantors have signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration for “abusing the issue” of antisemitism, joining a growing chorus of opposition from Jewish leaders. The letter, published Monday and titled “A Call to Moral Clarity: Rejecting Antisemitism as a Political Wedge,” was organized by two progressive Jewish groups — the Israel […]

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson came under fire from local Jewish leaders after he wore a keffiyeh, or a traditional Palestinian headscarf, to a public event this week. The Chicago chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations posted a picture of Johnson with its executive director, Ahmed Rehab, at an event to mark Arab Heritage Month. […]

Jewish leaders in Savannah, Georgia, snapped into action Friday after seeing a social media post with a flyer for a party that included an apparently antisemitic message. The flyer purported to invite students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to a party that included a list of instructions for the affair written in […]

The Justice Department announced Friday that it will walk back the cancellations of hundreds of student visas amid mounting legal pressure. It was not immediately clear whether the reversals would affect any of the high-profile cases of students whose visas were revoked because of their participation in pro-Palestinian protests. Instead, the announcement related directly to […]

Deborah Lipstadt, President Joe Biden’s antisemitism envoy, says parts of the Trump administration’s crackdown on campus antisemitism have “gone way too far.” In an interview, she declined to comment on specific cases that have unfolded since the White House began cracking down on pro-Palestinian student activists. But she denounced the conditions under which some of […]

As soon as news broke this week that the Food and Drug Administration was suspending federal testing of commercially produced milk, the Orthodox Union’s hotline lit up. The flood of inquiries was “off the hook … crazy: emails, calls, WhatsApp, everything,” said Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, chair of the dairy committee at O.U. Kosher, the most recognizable […]

President Donald Trump has demanded that U.S. colleges and universities report all foreign funding in an executive order issued Wednesday. The order requires colleges and universities to report all gifts and funds from foreign countries and states that funds could be revoked from schools that fail to comply with reporting standards. It is the latest […]

Professors at Barnard College received identical texts from the federal government Monday with a link to a survey asking if they were Jewish. The text messages, first reported by The Intercept, were sent to the majority of Barnard professors and are part of a review of the school conducted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, […]

A new policy from the National Institutes of Health bars colleges and universities from receiving funding if they boycott business relations with Israel. The policy, which was announced Monday, added to terms and conditions for schools that receive funding from the NIH, which awards tens of billions of dollars in research funding via nearly 50,000 […]