Category: Local

Half a year into the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023, the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace might have been riding high. Attention and support for the three-decade-old group was way up. New chapters were forming, and the group’s social media following had tripled, ringing in at 1.3 million on Instagram alone. […]

The number of antisemitic assaults and acts of vandalism on college campuses fell sharply in the last school year, according to Hillel International. And the pro-Palestinian encampments that ignited fear among many Jewish college students in early 2024 effectively disappeared in the year since, with just nine encampments taking place in the last school year, […]

WASHINGTON — Jesus is rising, again, at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Donald Trump’s transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, is returning to its former place of prominence a massive painting of Jesus that was removed two years ago following a request from Jewish midshipmen and others. The restoration drew attention on Wednesday in Congress, where Rep. […]

Columbia University is adopting a controversial definition of antisemitism and collaborating with a number of Jewish nonprofits on training programs as it reportedly nears a deal with the Trump administration over the school’s alleged failure to combat antisemitism on campus. The university is also committing not to meet with its most prominent pro-Palestinian group, Columbia […]

New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate told business leaders that he would seek to discourage the use of the phrase “globalize the intifada” but continued not to outright denounce it, the New York Times reported late Tuesday. Zohran Mamdani made the comments during a closed-door meeting with the Partnership for New York City, an influential […]

A little-known creek in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had been officially named “Nazi Creek” for 80 years — until this week. Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name in the language of the local Indigenous people, in a move supported by an Anchorage synagogue. The one-mile creek, […]

The social media platform X is filled with antisemitism, according to watchdogs and even a casual exploration. But it was still shocking for users late Sunday when the account associated with the “Sesame Street” character Elmo began spewing hate. “Kill all Jews,” the Elmo account tweeted as part of a spree focused on “the Epstein […]

While the majority of Americans oppose antisemitism, a quarter believe that the recent string of attacks on Jews in the United States were “understandable,” according to a new report released by the Anti-Defamation League on Friday. The report comes in the wake of three recent attacks on Jewish targets by people claiming to act on […]