Some 200 anti-Israel activists force evacuation of Berkeley event
Some 200 people protested violently outside an event with a former Israel Defense Forces soldier at the University of California, Berkeley on Monday night, forcing Jewish students at the event to evacuate.
Anti-Israel students banged...
How a Jewish museum in Florida landed the Wiesel Collection
For about a year, officials at the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) in downtown St. Petersburg kept a closely guarded secret that the museum was seeking to become the permanent home of a treasure trove...
NJ: ‘Geopolitical conflicts,’ including in Gaza, pose ‘threats’ in state in 2024
Anti-Israel activists, both cyber and other criminals, are likely to target Jews and pro-Israel and pro-Jewish people and organizations in New Jersey, per a nearly 70-page “2024 Threat Assessment” published by the state’s Office...
Pentagon mum on whether airman’s self-immolation sign of ‘bigger issue’
Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the U.S. Defense Department press secretary, twice dodged an Associated Press reporter’s questions at the department’s Feb. 26 press briefing about whether Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation protest outside the Israeli embassy in Washington,...
New policy at Barnard bans decorations on dorm-room doors
Students attending New York City’s Barnard College will need to find ways to express themselves other than affixing photos or messages on the doors of their dormitories.
Leslie Grinage, the school’s dean, sent out a letter on...
BBYO centennial draws thousands of Jewish teens to Orlando convention
Thousands of Jewish teens and adults from 46 countries gathered at a hotel in Orlando, Fla., for BBYO’s annual international convention.
Held from Feb. 15-19, the convention, which took place at Rosen Shingle Creek and was...
Shabbat at CPAC: The Jewish conservatives who want to ‘Make America Great Again’
Two Jewish men meet in a buffet line and start arguing about whether Jews should move from New York City to Oklahoma.
“What’s the weather like?” one asks. “Better than New York!” says the other.
Others...
‘Generally, we feel very safe in Kansas,’ says rabbi of vandalized Topeka temple
An antisemitic vandal spray-painted “Save Gaza” and “Free Palestine” on a driveway leading up to the only synagogue in Topeka, Kan., the Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
The Topeka Police Department and the FBI are investigating the vandalism at...
Jewish philanthropist gives $1 billion to Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Ruth Gottesman, 93, widow of Warren Buffett protégé David Gottesman, gifted $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to cover tuition for all students, the New York Times reported.
The school in the Bronx was...
Professor leaves MIT ‘dream job’ for Yeshiva due to Jew-hatred
After quitting his “dream job” at Massachusetts Institute of Technology due to antisemitism on campus, Mauricio Karchmer is fitting in at his new job at Yeshiva University.
The computer scientist has, in his first two...