California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he regrets comments earlier this month in which he appeared to signal that he agreed with claims that Israel is an “apartheid state.” In an interview published Tuesday in Politico, Newsom said he had meant to echo a New York Times column by Thomas Friedman that warned that Israel could […]
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During a press conference last Thursday, organized to address rising antisemitism in the wake of the ramming attack on Temple Israel in Detroit earlier this month, the Oakland County sheriff who helped organize the police response to the incident announced the arrest of what seemed like the latest perpetrator: an individual who had posted an […]
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A Chicago man has been charged with making an interstate threat after allegedly responding to Israel’s announcement on X about its killing of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by saying he planned to “shoot up a synagogue.” Timothy Holmes, 31, posted other antisemitic comments in response to posts about Israel, including “the jew will be […]
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OXNARD, California — On Friday nights, in Jewish homes around the world, a familiar ritual unfolds: a blessing over wine, poured into a cup and passed around the table. That ritual, multiplied during Passover, may help explain why kosher wine is holding steady even as the broader wine industry struggles. Across the United States and […]
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The Trump administration sued Harvard University on Friday, alleging that the school had failed to address antisemitism and discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students. The lawsuit, which was filed by the Justice Department in Massachusetts District court, marked a sharp escalation of the government’s yearlong battle with the university as it now seeks to freeze […]
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A California lawmaker is introducing a bill that would create a buffer zone around houses of worship, the latest effort by lawmakers to respond to protests against Israel that have taken place outside synagogues. Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a Jewish Democrat representing a suburban district in the San Francisco Bay Area, unveiled AB 2664, dubbed the […]
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It is not every day a sitting mayor celebrates his bar mitzvah. But last Saturday, as more than 700 people packed the pews at Temple Beth-El in Providence, Rhode Island, that’s exactly what unfolded. At the center of the ceremony at the Reform synagogue on the East Side of Providence was the city’s mayor, Brett […]
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The University of California, Berkeley said bans on Zionists “can violate university rules” and the bylaws of any student groups barring their inclusion must be rescinded, as part of a new settlement agreement in an antisemitism lawsuit. The university further agreed to pay $1 million to the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a […]
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Four days after an attacker drove a car filled with explosives into her synagogue, Rabbi Jen Lader called a trusted photographer. Emily Iris Elconin took what would become the first official photos of the aftermath of the attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan. On Thursday morning, one week after the attack, the synagogue […]
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Rabbi Matt Cutler was wrapping up a local TV interview last Thursday when a text from State Police came through: The man who had been posting antisemitic threats against him online was about to be arrested. The notice was timely for Cutler, the leader of the Reform synagogue Congregation Gates of Heaven in Schenectady, New […]
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