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Cornell and Northwestern to see nearly $2B frozen amid Trump’s antisemitism crackdown

April 9, 2025April 11, 2025Sara Wood

Cornell and Northwestern Universities have joined five other schools in the Ivy League in facing steep funding cuts from the Trump administration, ostensibly over their handling of campus antisemitism. Both schools have Jewish presidents. In Cornell’s case, Michael Kotlikoff, who was recently promoted from interim to permanent president, has broadcast confidence about the climate for […]

Muslim prayer room at NYU vandalized with name of Jewish fraternity

April 8, 2025April 8, 2025Sara Wood

The name of a Jewish fraternity was graffitied in a Muslim prayer room at New York University’s library last week, according to school officials. A student was visiting the prayer room in Bobst Library last Thursday when they discovered that the room had been vandalized. Its prayer mats were soaked in urine, and a phallic […]

Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities

April 8, 2025April 13, 2025Sara Wood

A museum holding one of the most important photography collections of pre-Holocaust Jewish life wanted to scan thousands of images and make them accessible to the public online. As part of the fundraising to digitize the archive of the renowned Russian Jewish photographer Roman Vishniac, the museum, known as the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art […]

It’s official: Southeast Florida’s Jewish population is growing — and getting younger

April 8, 2025April 13, 2025Sara Wood

Picture a Jew in Miami. Is the person you’re thinking of older? Perhaps a retiree from New York — complete with the accent — who lives in a condo on the beach? According to a recent Jewish population study of Miami-Dade County, at least part of that snapshot is becoming outdated. The southeast corner of […]

Oct. 7 drove Jewish and Muslim teens apart. A dialogue group in L.A. brought them together.

April 8, 2025April 8, 2025Sara Wood

This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Micah MikoLevine felt isolated and invisible on her private high school campus in Pasadena, California after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel. “There was this […]

In new letter, Mahmoud Khalil downplays campus antisemitism and accuses some students of ‘participating in the genocide’

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025Sara Wood

Mahmoud Kahlil accused Columbia University of creating a “manufactured public hysteria about antisemitism” and likened the school to a Nazi collaborationist government in a letter dictated from an ICE detention center. He also claimed, without citing evidence, that fellow students who spoke out against antisemitism were serving in the Israeli military during school vacations. The […]

U.S. Naval Academy removed books about the Holocaust, antisemitism and Jewish Americans ahead of Hegseth visit

April 7, 2025April 8, 2025Sara Wood

At the same time as the U.S. Naval Academy removed a display honoring Jewish female graduates ahead of a visit from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, it also removed books about the Holocaust and antisemitism. The books, which also covered the history of white supremacy in the United States, were among nearly 400 removed ahead of […]

Jews at Tufts are furious over ICE seizing a pro-Palestinian grad student. But they’re wary of joining protests for her.

April 4, 2025April 4, 2025Sara Wood

For the last year and a half, Tufts Students for Israel has battled against criticism of Israel on the Boston-area campus. But on Thursday, the group took a stance of a different kind: It published an op-ed in the campus newspaper advocating for the school’s most prominent pro-Palestinian student. “The detainment of Rümeysa Öztürk is […]

Federal spending cuts could affect aid for Holocaust survivors and kosher Meal on Wheels deliveries

April 4, 2025April 5, 2025Sara Wood

Mass layoffs and a sweeping restructuring at the Department of Health and Human Services could disrupt programs that deliver support for Holocaust survivors and kosher meals to homebound seniors and people with disabilities. As part of the Trump administration’s move to slash federal spending, the department is reducing its workforce by 25% and eliminating the […]

Pennsylvania Jewish groups condemn ‘genocide’ slogan on Gisele Fetterman’s charity

April 4, 2025April 5, 2025Sara Wood

Several Jewish groups condemned a sheet that was draped over a charity store run by Sen. John Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, accusing the couple of “genocide.” The sheet, draped over Gisele Fetterman’s Free Store in Braddock, Pennsylvania, reads “Genocide John, Genocide Gisele, Blood on your hands.” A coalition of Jewish groups, including several Jewish federations in […]