A professor and conservative activist nominated by Gov. Ron DeSantis to chair a Florida university board is in political hot water this week over a series of tweets counting the number of Jews, women, seniors and gay lawmakers…
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Since Oct. 7, Washington University in St. Louis has quietly opened its doors to Jewish students leaving uncomfortable campus environments
During Lauren Eckstein’s freshman year at Pomona College, her grandparents pledged $1.2 million to the private school toward a scholarship to support refugee students.
They gave the money, a press release said at the time, in…
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Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor and co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish museum, dies at 98
Marian Turski, a Polish-born survivor of Auschwitz who helped found the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, has died. He was 98.
His death was announced Tuesday by the Polish magazine Polityk, where he worked…
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Shiri Bibas and her children Kfir and Ariel, redheaded symbols of Israel’s anguish, were killed while held hostage in Gaza, Israel confirms
(JTA) — Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, the redheaded mother and children who were for many the faces of Israel’s hostage crisis, are dead.
They died while held captive by Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office…
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The Bibas family embodied our hope and despair. Where do we turn when hope is dashed?
On the morning of Oct. 8, 2023, I quickly made a Google slide presentation with songs for Israel. I didn’t know what else to do, but I knew that the 400 students at our northern New Jersey synagogue’s religious school were…
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Islamic Jihad says it will release body of hostage Oded Lifshitz on Thursday
The Islamic Jihad terror group has said it will release the body of 84 year-old Israeli hostage Oded Lifshitz on Thursday.
Lifshitz was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz on the morning of October 7 as the Hamas terror group attacked.
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2 NYC yeshivas are not meeting standards and must effectively close, state rules
The New York State Education Department is cutting off public funding to two Brooklyn yeshivas and ordering parents to find alternative educational arrangements for their children next year, citing the schools’ failure to meet…
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Which do you put first – your family or your principles?
The Value of Names is a play that makes you think – to question yourself and ask, what would I do in the situation? A play about loyalty and love, it is written and directed by award-winning Jewish American playwright Jeffrey Sweet.
Set…
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Columbia University students can now spend their dining dollars at JTS’s kosher café
The Jewish Theological Seminary is offering Jewish students at nearby Columbia University what its leadership is calling a response to months of turmoil at the Ivy League university: hot, kosher food.
JTS, the flagship…
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Brawls break out surrounding pro-Palestinian protest in heavily Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park
A pro-Palestinian protest in the heavily Jewish New York City neighborhood of Borough Park descended into brawls and epithets Tuesday night as demonstrators clashed with pro-Israel counterprotesters.
At least one person was…
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