A large school district serving Oakland, California, is effectively defying state efforts to make it address antisemitism on its campuses, according to a lawsuit filed this week by the California Department of Education. In January, the department ordered the Oakland Unified School District to send letters to families and staff condemning antisemitism and take several […]
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This is a developing story. Police in suburban Detroit responded on Thursday to an “active shooter situation” at Temple Israel, one of the largest synagogues in the United States. No one was killed at the synagogue, which has a preschool on its premises. A man who drove a truck into the building was dead, Oakland […]
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Over 1,100 Jewish clergy from across the United States have signed onto a letter affirming their support for immigrant rights and calling on leaders not to “wrong or oppress the stranger.” The letter published by the Jewish refugee aid group HIAS comes as Jewish communities across the country are grappling with the Trump administration’s aggressive […]
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Universities that reached settlements with the Trump administration last year to preserve federal funding mostly received higher marks on the Anti-Defamation League’s campus antisemitism “report cards,” released this week. Columbia, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, all of which struck deals in order to end federal civil rights investigations and some […]
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A YouTuber, a theater consultant and an accordionist walk into a kosher Chinese restaurant. It’s not the setup to a Borscht Belt joke — it’s half of the party that grabbed a table recently at Buddha Bodai in New York City’s Chinatown for a lively debate over dim sum and tea. The men were part of […]
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Jewish leaders in California are condemning an assault of Hebrew-speaking Israelis outside a San Jose cafe on Sunday that has sparked viral video and a police investigation. J. The Jewish News of Northern California obtained multiple videos of the assault and its immediate aftermath and spoke to the Israeli men, who said the two groups […]
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President Donald Trump gave mixed signals about the status of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran on Monday, telling reporters that the war was “very complete, pretty much” even as he said that he would make a “mutual” decision with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about its end. At the same time, he threatened Iran in […]
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The Department of Government Efficiency tagged Jewish themes as “DEI” in ChatGPT when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year, according to a class-action lawsuit. The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants to study violence against women during the Holocaust, postwar Soviet Jewish literature and hundreds of […]
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Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has called on Israel to rein in its attacks on Iranian oil infrastructure, marking a rare note of caution from a Republican lawmaker who has said he helped push the United States to join Israel in waging war against Iran. In a post on X on Sunday, Graham praised […]
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Most Americans know that, in the midst of the Revolutionary War, the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. But far fewer are aware that Jews were directly involved with the American Revolution. Not only did Jews help finance the Patriot effort — as in the case of Haym […]
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