(JTA) — One week after pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied a building at Columbia University were ejected and arrested, the rapper Macklemore has offered them an anthem.
The nearly three-minute track, released Monday, is called “Hinds Hall,”...
(JTA) — I grew up in a small Syrian Jewish enclave in Brooklyn in the 1960s. It was a wonderful community with many old-world traditions. I missed it when I grew up and moved to Manhattan.
In the days before electronic marketing, I received tons of...
(JTA) — President Joe Biden aimed straight at American Jewish anxieties of the moment in a speech commemorating the Holocaust, pledging to keep alive the memory of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres in the face of waves of anti-Israel and antisemitic actions.
“I...
(JTA) — The social media company Meta is adjudicating whether a key phrase used by pro-Palestinian activists constitutes acceptable speech.
The company’s Oversight Board, an independent body tasked with reviewing Meta’s content moderation...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel’s war cabinet unanimously voted to approve an invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza, shortly after Hamas said it had accepted an outline for a ceasefire deal with Israel.
The announcements were two landmarks in a whirlwind...
(JTA) — Last fall, Mo Husseini wrote a series of propositions — what he called “50 Completely True Things” — about the Israel-Hamas war, and posted it on the social media site Threads.
Identifying himself as “a Palestinian American...
(New York Jewish Week) – Columbia University announced Monday that it would be canceling its commencement ceremony following weeks of pro-Palestinian protest, campus turmoil and hundreds of student arrests.
Beginning nearly three weeks ago, the...
(JTA) — Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, began Sunday night, marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and serving as a memorial day for the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis. This year, as the Israel-Hamas war enters...
Miri Weissman, Israel Hayom via JNS
• Published May 5, 2024
An Iranian university is offering scholarships to American students expelled for participating in anti-Israel demonstrations on campuses across the United States.
In a statement reported by Iranian state-owned media outlet Press TV, Mohammad Moazzeni,...
(JTA) — Elon Musk says he will restore the X account of Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier and antisemite who has said “perfidious Jews” should be executed.
“Very well, he will be reinstated, provided he does not violate the law, and let him...
By Beth Harpaz, The Forward
• Published May 2, 2024
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A new survey found 47% of U.S. voters believe colleges should ban pro-Palestinian protests, compared to 30% who say the...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In his first address about the pro-Palestinian protests rocking campuses nationwide, President Joe Biden said “order must prevail” but rejected proposals to bring in federal troops.
“Dissent must never lead to disorder, or...
