This is a developing story. Two people were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event. Both of the people killed were staffers at the Israeli embassy in Washington, according to Jewish and public officials. The shooting took place after 9 p.m. on Wednesday […]
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Dozens of Yeshiva University faculty say they “deplore and oppose” the school’s decision to give its highest award to Rep. Elise Stefanik, saying the prize politicizes commencement ceremonies and rewards an extremist official. Stefanik, a member of House Republican leadership, will receive the school’s Presidential Medallion. She is being recognized alongside Rachel Goldberg-Polin, who will […]
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George Washington University says it will ban a student commencement speaker from campus after she used her graduation speech to decry “genocide” in Gaza and urged her graduating class not to donate to the school until it agrees to divest from Israel. Pro-Israel students and alumni had urged the school to discipline the speaker and […]
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Over a quarter of Jewish adults in the United States say they consult astrology or a horoscope at least once or twice a year, according to a new study. The study by the Pew Research Center survey, published Wednesday, surveyed U.S. opinion on astrology, tarot cards and fortune tellers. It found that 18% of American […]
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A man appointed to an advisory committee by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has stepped down amid outcry over a 2023 video of him tearing down Israeli hostage posters. Ishan Daya was one of 20 appointees to Johnson’s new Chicago Fiscal Sustainability Working Group. His website identifies him as a community organizer focused on public safety […]
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Families sending their children to yeshivas and other Jewish schools nationwide would be eligible for tuition assistance through a federal tax credit proposed in federal budget legislation. The proposal — which would create scholarships of up to $5,000 per student — marks the farthest that proponents of school vouchers have ever gotten toward expanding school […]
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Fliers denigrating Jews were strewn around Squirrel Hill, and residents were reportedly targeted with antisemitic epithets, the latest antisemitic incident in the neighborhood that suffered the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting. The fliers were reportedly thrown from a moving vehicle, according to Pittsburgh Police. Police said the fliers were in clear bags weighed with […]
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In the days before hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman was to speak at Sunday’s conference on “Jews and Elite Universities” at New York’s Center for Jewish History, some 60 scholars signed a letter objecting that the vocal critic of Harvard’s handling of antisemitism allegations had no place speaking in such a setting. The signers, either […]
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Four Orthodox rabbis are among the 26 people named by President Donald Trump to advise his newly formed Religious Liberty Commission. Two other Jewish activists at right-wing advocacy groups are also joining the commission, which Trump announced earlier this month. Critics of the commission have charged that it caters to the concerns of evangelical Christians […]
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The City Council of Providence, Rhode Island, raised the Palestinian flag at City Hall on Friday amid dueling demonstrations. The council announced the decision to raise the flag on X Wednesday, one day before Palestinians and their supporters observed Nakba Day, which marks the displacement of Palestinians upon Israel’s establishment. City Council President Rachel Miller […]
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