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Antisemitic materials displayed at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. Credit: Courtesy of Dahlia Levy.

‘We just didn’t matter,’ Jewish students say of alleged antisemitism at California schools

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The Anti-Defamation League, Jewish on Campus, StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed complaints earlier this month with the U.S. Department of Education alleging that three California schools—Scripps College, Etiwanda...

Israel redrawing its borders in Syria and Lebanon

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On Feb. 24, 2025, protests erupted in southern Syria, with several hundred demonstrators rallying in multiple locations against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent call for the demilitarization of the area south of Damascus. The...

Witkoff: ‘No alternative’ for Hamas but to exit Gaza

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Hamas must leave the Gaza Strip, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, told Fox News on Monday, shortly before flying to Qatar for continued talks on a Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. Witkoff said of...
Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Adam Boehler speaks during a U.S. hostage and wrongful detainee flag-raising ceremony at the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 6, 2025. Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images.

US hostage envoy Boehler defends direct talks with Hamas

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U.S. Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Adam Boehler confirmed on Sunday in a series of television interviews with American and Israeli media that direct talks with Hamas had indeed taken place, despite long-standing American policy against negotiating...
Credit: ICE/U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Federal agents arrest former Columbia student, who led protests

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, coordinating with the U.S. State Department, arrested Mahmoud Khalil, who completed his graduate studies at Columbia University in December, "in support of President Trump's executive orders prohibiting antisemitism,"...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism Party faction meeting at the Knesset, Jan. 20, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Smotrich: Israel advancing plans for Gazan emigration

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Israel is actively developing a large-scale emigration plan for Palestinians in Gaza, in coordination from the United States, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday. Speaking to the Knesset’s Land of Israel Caucus, the Religious...
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2025. Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images.

Trump: ‘We’re down to the final moments with Iran’

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U.S. President Donald Trump hinted on Friday that the United States could take military action against the Iranian nuclear program “very soon” if the Islamic Republic does not strike a deal with the United...
A view of protesters demonstrating outside the campus of Columbia University in New York City, April 22, 2024. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.

Citing Jew-hatred, Trump admin axes $400 million in federal funding to Columbia

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The Trump administration announced on Friday that it canceled about $400 million worth of contracts with and grants to Columbia University, citing what it said is the public school's inaction in the face of...
Susan, Judit and Sofia Polgar with their parents Klara and Laszlo, in New York City, July 8, 1992. Photo by Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Images.

Oct. 7 was ‘total shock,’ chess grandmaster Susan Polgar says

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Susan Polgar, a Jewish Hungarian-American grandmaster, was traveling with a student to the International Chess Federation’s Youth World Championship in Egypt, with a stop in Tel Aviv, on Oct. 7, 2023. “Like many others,...
Muslim worshippers pray at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during the first Friday prayers of Ramadan, March 7, 2025. Photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images.

90,000 Muslims ascend Temple Mount for Ramadan prayers

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Approximately 90,000 Muslims, including thousands from Judea and Samaria, ascended the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City for the first mass prayers of Ramadan on Friday morning, according to the Jordanian-appointed Waqf trust, which...