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The Hurley administration building on the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Credit: Michael Barera via Wikimedia Commons.

University of North Texas under federal investigation for alleged Jew-hatred

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The U.S. Department of Education is formally investigating the University of North Texas for allegations of antisemitism on its Denton campus, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported. A spokesperson for the university confirmed on March 27 that the institution...

Evangelical pastor to Trump: ‘Recognize sovereignty in Judea and Samaria’

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A pre-Passover ceremony for leaders of Jewish towns in Samaria took place this week in Nofim, 18.5 miles east of Tel Aviv, attended by approximately 700 leaders from communities across the region. Organized by the...

Hate crimes against Jews, Muslims rose in 2024 as overall rates fell, study says

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While hate crime rates in 42 U.S. cities declined by almost 3% overall in 2024, crimes against Jews rose 12%, and those against Muslims rose 18%, according to preliminary data from a new multi-city survey by...
U.S. President Donald Trump announces tariffs on auto imports in the Oval Office, March 26, 2025. Credit: Molly Riley/White House.

Trump names Friedman, Grenell as possible candidates for UN posting

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that there are “maybe 30” people interested in the job of Ambassador to the United Nations after he withdrew Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) nomination on March 27. Possible candidates named...
The Harvard University campus in March 2025. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

Trump admin to audit $9b in Harvard grants, contracts over Jew-hatred

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  The Trump administration announced on Monday that it would carry out a “comprehensive review” of $9 billion in federal grants and contracts at Harvard University over the school’s failure to protect Jewish students. As part...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) asks a question during a House committee hearing about antisemitism on campus with the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT, Dec. 5, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of the office of Rep. Stefanik.

Trump withdraws Stefanik nomination for UN envoy

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U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he has withdrawn his nominee for U.N. ambassador over concerns about the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that he had...
A close-up of a smartphone displaying the ChatGPT logo on a white screen, with the same ChatGPT logo shown on a laptop screen on February 19, 2025 in Chongqing, China. Photo by Cheng Xin/Getty Images.

ADL: Leading AI models show anti-Israel, antisemitic bias

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A recent report published by the Anti-Defamation League highlights significant instances of anti-Israel and antisemitic bias in four major artificial intelligence models: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini and Meta’s Llama. Conducted by the ADL’s Center for Technology...
Merrill Eisenhower, great-grandson of President Dwight Eisenhower, and Eva Clarke, a Holocaust survivor born in the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945, Feb. 26, 2025. Photo by Yossi May/International March of the Living.

Eisenhower’s great-grandson to join Holocaust march in Poland

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The great grandson of American general Dwight D. Eisenhower will join scores of aging Holocaust survivors and the presidents of Israel and Poland on the March of the Living in Poland next month to...
Yale University. Credit: Pixabay.

Yale antisemitism program names inaugural managing director

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Scholar and author Linda Maizels has joined the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism as its inaugural managing director, the university announced on Monday. “We are so fortunate to have hired someone like Linda, who, first...
Tammy Bruce, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman, holds a daily press briefing on March 6, 2025. Credit: Freddie Everett/U.S. State Department.

Closest ‘we’ve been in ages’ to Middle East peace, State Dept says

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Mahmoud Khalil, the recent Columbia University graduate whom the Trump administration is seeking to deport for alleged terror ties, neglected to mention on his application for permanent resident status that he had worked for...