Penn is not the first school hit by a probe for Jewish contacts. In April, professors at Barnard College received texts from the federal government asking if they were Jewish as part of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s review
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Jewish groups at Penn sound alarm over federal lawsuit seeking information on Jewish employees
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‘Certainly Not for Jews’: Why Did Israel Kill Off the Death Penalty?
In 1954, the commissioner of the Israel Prison Service, Zvi Hermon, held an unusual meeting with four Jewish inmates. At the Tel Mond prison in central Israel, he informed them of the Knesset’s decision to abolish the death penalty – a decision…
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Poland summons Israeli ambassador over Yad Vashem Holocaust post
Yad Vashem wrote that Poland was ‘the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive badge to isolate them,’ sparking criticism from Poland’s foreign minister. The Auschwitz Memorial tied Yad Vashem’s tweet to its plan to open a…
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'Whiff of antisemitism': Anti-Zionist activists protest outside London synagogue hosting Aliyah event
Police said there was ‘no legal mechanism’ to stop the protest, which a Jewish communal leader described as ‘obnoxious with a strong whiff of antisemitism’. The protests were organized in part by Jewish anti-Zionist activists
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Australian judge rules synagogue arsonist motivated by mental illness, not antisemitism
The arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue in July, which occurred alongside other attacks on Jewish and Israeli establishments over the same weekend, was broadly considered antisemitic and denounced by officials in Israel and Australia
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Cabinet Approves Plan to Bring Remaining Members of ‘Lost Tribe’ From India to Israel
A special budget of 90 million shekels has been allocated to finance the flights, conversion classes, housing and other benefits for nearly 6,000 members of the Bnei Menashe community. According to the cabinet decision,…
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Mamdani Faces Backlash for Saying Aliyah Event Promotes ‘Violation of International Law’
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is facing backlash after his team responded to an anti-Israel protest outside a Manhattan synagogue that was hosting an event promoting Jewish immigration to Israel on Wednesday by saying that “sacred…
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Miami Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa Says He Wants to Play an NFL Game in Jerusalem
The phrase “Next year in Jerusalem” is customarily spoken at the end of the Passover Seder. But this past weekend its sentiment was conveyed at the end of a different kind of gathering: a low-scoring NFL game between the Miami Dolphins and…
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3,000 Jewish Pimps, 80,000 Jewish Girls and Women: 19th Century Trafficking Operation Retold in New Novel
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, around 80,000 Jewish girls and women from Eastern Europe were forced into prostitution. Novelist Eytan Dror Freier tells how these victims fought to survive and even maintain their Jewish culture
The late…
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'Stop funding genocide': Cameron Kasky, Parkland shooting survivor, runs for Congress
Kasky, a 25-year-old self-described ‘unhinged politics Jew,’ enters an already crowded race to succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York City
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