Montana ‘going to get some answers’ on firm’s alleged anti-Israel practices
Montana’s attorney general told JNS that the state is “going to get some answers, and I think we’re going to change some behavior here,” after it opened an investigation into potential anti-Israel practices at the major...
Education Department resolves federal Jew-hatred complaint against University of Illinois
The U.S. Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it resolved a complaint alleging “numerous incidents of antisemitism” at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “including the recurring appearance of swastikas throughout campus, mezuzahs ripped...
Harvard, London School of Economics offer positions to embattled former Penn president Liz Magill
Liz Magill, the embattled former president of the University of Pennsylvania who testified before Congress that calling for the genocide of Jews wouldn’t necessarily violate the school’s code of conduct, has secured unpaid positions at Harvard...
Cooper Union president resigns, having cited ‘new challenges’ last year
Laura Sparks, president of Cooper Union in New York City, announced on July 17 that she would step down In August, but the news only began to spread widely on Thursday.
“Cooper Union president Laura...
Anti-Israel activists increasingly find voice in labor unions, per report
An analysis from Jewish Insider explores how labor unions have gradually shifted to oppose the Jewish state in recent years, with the transformation most manifesting in responses to Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the...
Torah scroll stolen from New York City yeshivah returned to owners
A Torah scroll, locked in a safe, stolen months ago from a yeshivah in Queens, N.Y., has been returned to the family that donated it.
Documents provided by the New York City Police Department stated that officers...
Officials call for Iowa driver to change custom ‘M3INKPF’ license plate
At least three complaints to Iowa’s Department of Transportation have resulted in an official request for the owner to change a license plate with characters resembling the title of Adolf Hitler’s autobiography.
The Des Moines Register reported on Tuesday...
‘Never see anything like that again,’ Rabbi Michael Beals says of Biden’s support of...
U.S. President Joe Biden lingered on stage as Chicago’s United Center quickly emptied on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. It was past midnight in the Windy City, and the president, whose...
Father of captive soldier pushes for bipartisan support in US
“We, the families of the hostages, would have wanted to see some calm in the region that would expedite the negotiations,” Ruby Chen, the father of American-Israeli IDF Sgt. Itay Chen, 19, told JNS on Sunday.
“But...
Pentagon delivering final six million pounds of aid from shuttered Gazan pier project
Washington is delivering the final six million pounds of aid from the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore project—the pier anchored to the Gazan shore which was beset by problems until it was retired—the Pentagon said last...