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Trump administration says Columbia University ‘continually failed to protect Jewish students’

May 23, 2025May 24, 2025Sara Wood

Columbia University violated federal rules by “acting with deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students” since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack, the Trump administration announced Thursday. The department did not announce any new actions against Columbia, which the Trump administration has already pressured into making changes amid its crackdown on campuses with antisemitism complaints. […]

After museum shooting, more than 40 Jewish groups call for $1 billion in federal funding to secure religious institutions

May 22, 2025May 22, 2025Sara Wood

After a gunman murdered two people outside a Jewish museum, a wide range of major Jewish groups has asked the federal government to sharply increase its funding for religious institutions’ security to $1 billion. The request is one of several made by the coalition in the wake of the attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum […]

White House revokes Harvard’s right to enroll international students, including Jews from abroad

May 22, 2025May 23, 2025Sara Wood

The Trump administration has revoked its permission for Harvard University to enroll international students, in a dramatic escalation of what the Department of Homeland Security says is an effort to curb antisemitism at the university. The move “means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal […]

Capital Jewish Museum attacker shot victims in the back, authorities say as he is charged with murder

May 22, 2025May 24, 2025Sara Wood

Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man charged with killing two Israeli embassy employees outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, shot his victims multiple times, including firing at one repeatedly as she attempted to crawl away, according to an FBI agent’s account of the incident. The account was filed as the Justice Department […]

‘He never should have made it inside that building’: Jewish security groups face down lapses in DC shooting

May 22, 2025May 25, 2025Sara Wood

On Wednesday night, three armed security officers stood guard as the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington held its annual meeting in the nation’s capital. On the agenda: discussions about the various ways antisemitic rhetoric can lead to violence. Hours later, JCRC CEO Ron Halber said, he found out about the deadly shooting of […]

What we know about Elias Rodriguez, the suspect in the DC shooting that killed 2 Israeli embassy workers

May 22, 2025May 25, 2025Sara Wood

Political signs lined the windows of the Chicago apartment building of Elias Rodriguez, the man officials believe killed two Israeli embassy aides at a Jewish event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. One declared that the apartment was a “Proud Union Home” while another read “Justice for Wadea,” the 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was killed in […]

Supreme Court deadlock blocks Oklahoma’s plan for religious charter school, in pivotal case

May 22, 2025May 26, 2025Sara Wood

A deadlocked Supreme Court on Thursday let stand a ruling that blocks Oklahoma from using public funds to operate what would have been the nation’s first religious charter school. The 4-4 split, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett recusing herself, means the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision barring the state from sponsoring St. Isidore of Seville Catholic […]

For those who warned of ‘Free Palestine’ violence, fatal shooting at DC Jewish museum offers grim validation

May 22, 2025May 26, 2025Sara Wood

Two months after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, a man with a gun walked up the steps of a synagogue in Albany, New York, and fired into the air while shouting, “Free Palestine.” Children were inside the building at the time. It was, it seemed, nearly a nightmare scenario for those anxious about […]

‘More Elias’: These people are celebrating the Capital Jewish Museum shooting

May 22, 2025May 26, 2025Sara Wood

At 12:52 a.m., just minutes after the name of one of the victims of the Capital Jewish Museum attack began to trickle out online, a social media user by the name of Mejd S tweeted a short message: “F— Yaron Lischinsky.” Ten minutes earlier, Mejd had trawled Lischinsky’s profile on X, where the Israeli embassy […]

2 shot to death while exiting American Jewish Committee event at DC Jewish museum

May 21, 2025May 21, 2025Sara Wood

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 […]