(JTA) — One of the men who allegedly beat two Jewish DePaul University students after one showed support for Israel last November has been charged with a hate crime.
Adam Erkan, 20, has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery and hate...
Nathanael Andrade, Binghamton University
• Published April 16, 2025
It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social subversives – crucifixion.
The New Testament...
The man suspected of setting fire to the home of Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, Josh Shapiro, said he targeted Shapiro because of “what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” according to a search warrant signed by state police and quoted by...
(JTA) — Jewish students at Northwestern University awoke on the second day of Passover to a scourge of red paint across several university buildings with messages including “death to Israel” and “intifada now.”
In a message to the Hillel...
A year ago, Sarah Resnick had a good job and a Jewish community she liked in New York. She gave all that up to move to Winnipeg, a city where she knew nobody, in a country where she was not a citizen, in a climate whose extremes she was not used to.
“Do...
President Donald Trump has selected a new special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, elevating a Miami businessman and fundraiser named Yehuda Kaploun to the role.
“Yehuda is a successful businessman, and staunch advocate for the Jewish Faith...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 10, 2025
House Bill 937 passed in the Missouri House of Representatives on April 10, by a vote of 108 to 10. The bill creates protections against antisemitism and discrimination in public schools and colleges.
Another 25 legislators voted “present,” an...
(JTA) — A Republican senator called Chuck Schumer “Fuhrer,” using Adolf Hitler’s title as an epithet for the Jewish Senate minority leader.
“Here’s the main thing you’ve got to understand. Republicans are independently minded. Democrats...
(JTA) — 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...
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,...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 1, 2025
The Affton School District welcomed more than 50 members of the community to a meeting on Mon. evening, March 31, for an open discussion about combating hate and antisemitism. The meeting was scheduled shortly after March 7 when racist graffiti—including...
A proposed Missouri senate resolution commending Israel as a friend of the state will be the subject of a hearing at the capitol at 10:30 a.m. on Weds., April 2. Senate Resolution 156 recognizes the longstanding mutually beneficial relationship between...
