Category: Local

Several Democratic candidates for New York City mayor are slamming the ICE arrest on their turf of Mahmoud Khalil, the recent Columbia University graduate and Palestinian protest leader. Those issuing condemnations include both Jewish candidates, Comptroller Brad Lander and former Comptroller Scott Stringer. Lander referenced a famous poem about the Holocaust in his statement. Mayor […]

Voting opens Monday in an election that gives American Jews a rare chance to directly shape Israel’s future. The U.S. election for seats in the 39th World Zionist Congress will help determine the balance of power in the legislative authority of a Zionist organization founded by Theodore Herzl 128 years ago. Influence over $5 billion […]

Immigration officers arrested a recent Columbia University graduate over his role in pro-Palestinian activism, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s offensive against students protesting Israel at the school. The detention this weekend of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian who is in the country legally and holds a green card, has elicited sharp reactions from politicians […]

Adidas announced Wednesday that it had sold the last of its Yeezy sneakers, the lucrative footwear line created with rapper and designer Ye. The German sportswear giant framed the milestone as the closing chapter in the controversy sparked by Ye’s antisemitic comments in 2022. After massive public outcry, Adidas cut ties with Ye, formerly known […]

The Trump administration has canceled $400 million worth of grants to Columbia University, following through on threats to pull funding from the school over objections to campus antisemitism. The grants came from the Department of Health and Human Services, which announced the cuts on Friday, as well as the Departments of Justice and Education and […]

The U.S. State Department plans to use artificial intelligence to detect students from abroad who support Hamas, with the goal of canceling their visas and deporting them. That’s according to a report Thursday from Axios, which cited unnamed department officials who said they planned to use AI to surveil the social media of students on […]

Pro-Palestinian protesters occupying Barnard College’s campus library were evacuated Wednesday after a bomb threat was called into the building. Nine protesters were arrested at the scene as dozens of NYPD officers entered Milstein Library. The bomb threat was deemed not credible. On Thursday, in response to the incident, Barnard announced a series of toughened campus […]

President Donald Trump told a delegation of freed Israeli hostages in the Oval Office on Wednesday that he was confident that the remaining hostages in Gaza would be released. “We’ll get them out,” Trump told the hostages, who traveled to the United States from Israel to advocate for the 59 hostages still in captivity after […]

The White House has confirmed that U.S. officials are holding talks with Hamas representatives in an effort to negotiate an end to the Gaza war. Adam Boehler, the Trump administration’s hostage envoy, who is Jewish, met with Hamas officials in Doha, Qatar, in recent weeks, according to a report in Axios by the Israeli journalist […]