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As soon as news broke this week that the Food and Drug Administration was suspending federal testing of commercially produced milk, the Orthodox Union’s hotline lit up. The flood of inquiries was “off the hook … crazy: emails, calls, WhatsApp, everything,” said Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, chair of the dairy committee at O.U. Kosher, the most recognizable […]

President Donald Trump has demanded that U.S. colleges and universities report all foreign funding in an executive order issued Wednesday. The order requires colleges and universities to report all gifts and funds from foreign countries and states that funds could be revoked from schools that fail to comply with reporting standards. It is the latest […]

Professors at Barnard College received identical texts from the federal government Monday with a link to a survey asking if they were Jewish. The text messages, first reported by The Intercept, were sent to the majority of Barnard professors and are part of a review of the school conducted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, […]

A new policy from the National Institutes of Health bars colleges and universities from receiving funding if they boycott business relations with Israel. The policy, which was announced Monday, added to terms and conditions for schools that receive funding from the NIH, which awards tens of billions of dollars in research funding via nearly 50,000 […]

An R&B singer who said, “F— Israel” has been disinvited from performing at Cornell University’s end-of-semester concert following outcry from Jewish students. After a student board announced on April 10 that the singer, Kehlani, would headline the school’s annual “Slope Day” concert, the student group Cornellians for Israel called on the school to rescind the […]

The Anti-Defamation League has called on a local California school board to apologize after two of its members attacked the Jewish community in comments at a meeting last week. The controversy is the latest front in the yearslong battle over ethnic studies classes at California schools. At the meeting on Wednesday, the Pajaro Valley Unified […]

Over 100 rabbis and cantors in the Chicago area have signed a letter denouncing the Trump administration’s recent series of funding cuts and arrests on college campuses. The letter joins a growing movement of American Jewish opposition to the Trump administration’s campus crackdown. The White House says the arrests and funding freezes are meant to […]

Antisemitic incidents in the United States increased once again in 2024, the Anti-Defamation League reported, reaching a new all-time high and providing the latest indicator of a continued surge in antisemitism following Oct. 7, 2023. The report, released Tuesday, recorded 9,354 antisemitic incidents across the country, marking a 5% increase from the previous year. That […]