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Hillel International’s CEO expressed concern over the Trump administration’s plans to deport pro-Palestinian students and freeze federal funding to schools over campus antisemitism. The statement from Hillel, the largest organization focused on Jewish students, is especially notable because its chapters have often been at the forefront of calling out campus antisemitism and supporting pro-Israel students. […]

A Jewish Princeton senior and U.S. Army veteran accused of assaulting the school’s head of campus security during a pro-Palestinian protest last year has been found not guilty. A New Jersey judge delivered the verdict Tuesday, the same day that Princeton’s president announced the school’s federal funding had been frozen by the Trump administration amid […]

As Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest Senate speech and made clear he was going for 25 hours, Jewish social media lit up with jokes. “This is the closest Cory Booker will get to experiencing Yom Kippur,” tweeted Sami Sage, the co-founder of Betches Media, in one representative post. As Jews do […]

As Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest Senate speech and made clear he was going for 25 hours, Jewish social media lit up with jokes. “This is the closest Cory Booker will get to experiencing Yom Kippur,” tweeted Sami Sage, the co-founder of Betches Media, in one representative post. As Jews do […]

Princeton University has become the latest in a string of Ivy League universities to have its federal funding threatened by the Trump administration amid investigations of antisemitism on campus. The university’s president, Christopher Eisgruber, announced the cuts in an email to the Princeton community Tuesday morning. He wrote that the reasoning behind the cuts had […]

As he walked up to his Tesla just days after his twins’ b’nai mitzvah last month, Peter Katz was surprised to find a sticker with a swastika. Another one offered an explanation. It read “Heil Elon.” People have vandalized Tesla dealerships, as well as some individual Teslas, in protest of CEO Elon Musk’s work in […]

Last year, New York’s attorney general started investigating a car wash that, her office suspected, was scamming Jewish customers. Now, Letitia James is ordering that business to end its “Passover special” — a car-cleaning offer that massively overcharged Orthodox Jews. Otherwise, it will have to pay $75,000. Jewish law strictly forbids owning any chametz, or […]

A pro-Palestinian student activist at Cornell University who was targeted by ICE for deportation has opted to leave the United States rather than continue fighting his deportation in court. In a manifesto posted online on Monday, Momodou Taal praised the “student intifada,” derided concerns for the safety of Zionist students and called on his supporters […]

Harvard University announced that it would pause a research partnership with Birzeit University, a Palestinian school, following public pressure, the Harvard Crimson reported last week. The decision to suspend ties with the West Bank university comes as pro-Palestinian activists at campuses across the United States and the world have long called on their schools to […]