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New legislation banning child marriage in Washington, D.C., was signed into law last week following advocacy by a coalition including Unchained At Last, a Jewish-led organization that opposes underage marriage. The new act establishes the marriage age as 18 in Washington, D.C. with no exceptions. It was signed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and became […]

Days after Yeshiva University announced that it would recognize a club supporting LGBTQ students, its president said the values espoused by a typical “Pride” club are “antithetical” to the school. Rabbi Ari Berman also claimed that the Modern Orthodox school’s decision to allow an LGBTQ club, after years of fighting in court not to recognize […]

A Tufts doctoral student was detained by ICE in the Trump administration’s latest attempt to deport a pro-Palestinian protester, according to an emailed statement from her attorney. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish international student, was arrested Tuesday near her Somerville, Massachusetts home while walking with friends to an iftar meal, which breaks Muslims’ daily Ramadan fast, […]

State Sen. Simcha Felder handily won the election to fill a vacant City Council seat representing Borough Park, Brooklyn, beating the theatrical radio host Heshy Tischler. Felder is a veteran politician who has represented the heavily Orthodox area for about 20 of the past 23 years, serving in the New York State Senate as well […]

The Trump administration’s bid to suspend funding for refugee admissions was partially blocked by a Seattle federal judge Monday, in response to a lawsuit by refugee aid agencies including the Jewish group HIAS. The injunction from Judge Jamal N. Whitehead found it unlawful for the administration to terminate its agreements with the refugee resettlement agencies. […]

The Trump administration must stop trying to deport Yunseo Chung, a Columbia University student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests, federal Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled on Tuesday. Chung, 21, is an undergraduate who is a legal permanent resident of the United States. She sued the administration after federal officers visited her dorm room in an […]

A Columbia University undergraduate has sued President Donald Trump and members of his administration after federal agents visited her dorm in an effort to arrest and deport her. Yunseo Chung, 21, is at least the third student to file suit against the Trump administration’s efforts to deport non-citizen students who participated in pro-Palestinian protests on […]

After running as a candidate last time, Abraham Silberstein will not even be voting in this year’s election for the World Zionist Congress. In 2020, Silberstein had joined a liberal slate from the United States vying for representation in the congress, a unique legislative body that lets Jews from all over the world have a […]

Columbia University is banning the use of face masks by protesters and hiring dozens of police officers as it seeks to win back federal funding cut by the Trump administration to penalize the school for its pro-Palestinian protests. Columbia also says it will review its admissions practices, citing “a recent downturn in both Jewish and […]

A pro-Palestinian activist at Cornell University has been ordered to report to immigration authorities, in a sign that the Trump administration is planning to deport him. Momodou Taal, a Gambian-British national who was briefly suspended from Cornell over his activism, had preemptively sued to block any effort to deport him, saying that the administration was […]