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American donor giving $5m to Israeli colleges after spurning Penn
An American-Jewish entrepreneur who has decided to reroute his philanthropy from U.S. colleges is donating $5 million to institutes of higher education in Israel.
The move comes as months of often violent antisemitic protests at...
Bill protecting students, including from Jew-hatred, passes Ohio house
A bill protecting students on campus, including from Jew-hatred, passed the Ohio State of Representatives on Wednesday.
The state legislature’s Jewish Caucus helped write the Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students (CAMPUS) Act,...
Euro 2024 organizers turn blind eye to PLO flag in stadiums
Euro 2024 regulations stipulate that flags of non-participating countries and political propaganda are prohibited in stadiums. However, it quickly became apparent that organizers are not enforcing these rules.
Turkish supporters initially exploited this leniency by...
White House admits Israel not to blame for aid failing to reach Gazans
After demanding for months that Jerusalem let more supplies enter the Gaza Strip, with Israel insisting that the bottlenecks are on the Gaza side, the U.S. appeared to come around to Israel’s position on...
Another emerging de facto Israeli FM
In a departure from Israel’s traditional foreign policy, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli has been quietly cultivating relationships with far-right parties across Europe, many of which have shown support for Israel following the Oct. 7 Hamas...
Why did a massacre of Jews lead to an explosion of antisemitism?
On the surface, it makes little sense.
How can the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust lead to the biggest rise in antisemitism in modern times?
Wasn’t it supposed to be the other way around?...
Biden’s ‘reformed PA’ marketing strategy
The Biden administration’s ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said this week “it is essential that the Palestinian Authority work to reform itself and that it do so as quickly as possible.”
But when...
‘Jews in Magic’: Reviving a 1933 history book by Guenther Dammann
New York Times business reporter David Segal tells the story of Richard Hatch, a physicist-turned-magician who works to revive the writing of Guenther Dammann, author of 1933’s Jews in Magic, who died during the Holocaust in 1942.
At 23,...
The dormant Department of Justice
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has announced that it has finally concluded two of its many pending investigations into Title VI violations of the rights of Jewish students. These investigations were prompted by...
Discovering old truths
The reaction of many Jews to the horrific times in which we find ourselves calls to mind the “Christopher Columbus problem”—conflating what’s new to us with what’s actually new.
Has the world really changed since...