‘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...
Jews who experience antisemitism give to charity at higher levels
Data published in a new report, “American Jewish Philanthropy 2022: Giving to Religious and Secular Causes in the U.S. and to Israel,” shows multiple trends impacting Jewish families’ gifts to nonprofit groups. One of them—experiences with...
‘Anti-Israel hypocrisy, hate,’ says AIPAC, after AOC calls it ‘NRA of foreign policy’
In the latest Washington alphabet soup, AOC called AIPAC the “NRA of foreign policy.”
The progressive “Squad” member, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who has a long anti-Israel history, responded on social media to a post from the...
South Dakota legislature passes bill using IHRA to define Jew-hatred
The South Dakota state legislature passed HB1076, which enshrines the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism into law.
The state House of Representatives approved amendments on Friday of the bill, which passed the state Senate 31-3...
Blinken: New Israeli housing units ‘inconsistent with international law’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that Israel’s approval of 3,000 new housing units in Judea—announced after one Israeli was killed and six wounded in a terrorist attack near Jerusalem—is “contrary to international law.”
That declaration...
Hamas rockets must stop before two-state solution, 13 Dems in Congress say
U.S. President Joe Biden and officials at the White House, U.S. State Department and other departments in the administration have repeatedly stated that Hamas must release all of the hostages it holds in Gaza...
AJC official appointed to US State Department’s antisemitism envoy office
Julie Katz, the Atlanta associate director of the American Jewish Committee, will take a year off from her position to serve in the U.S. State Department, working with Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to...
Sans new funds, UNRWA’s operations to be ‘severely compromised’ by March
Philippe Lazzrini, commissioner-general of UNRWA, asked the president of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday for permanent U.N. budgetary support for the scandal-plagued Palestinian-only refugee and social services agency.
Lazzrini wrote to Dennis Francis appealing to U.N....