Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Tuesday said his department has opened an investigation into Columbia University for potential violations of civil rights laws amid pro-Palestinian protests and danger to Jewish students. Mr. Cardona said that’s one of 137 open investigations his department has into violations of Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, […]
Sens. Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton called on President Biden to mobilize the National Guard to protect Jewish American college students in response to anti-Israel, pro-terrorist demonstrations on campuses. Mr. Hawley, Missouri Republican, wrote in a letter sent to Mr. Biden Monday: “On college campuses across the United States, Jewish Americans are at risk. … […]
Karen already provided some of the details about the sickening pro-Hamas protest over the weekend at Yale where a female, Hasidic Jewish student who was reporting on the event for the campus newspaper was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag and taken to the hospital. Unfortunately, there is even more to the story […]
Hundreds of Yale University students participated in an anti-Israel demonstration on campus Friday night. Non-students participated, too. Students pitched tents to make an encampment outside the Schwarzman Center where a Board of Trustees meeting was being held with top university officials. There were about a dozen police cruisers from the New Haven Police Department and […]
MEXICO CITY — By mid-2024, Claudia Sheinbaum will most likely become Mexico’s first female president. She would also be its first leader with a Jewish background in a country that’s home to nearly 100 million Catholics. On June 2, voters will choose a new president, 628 congressmen and thousands of local positions – Mexico’s largest […]
The Orthodox rabbi at Columbia University and Barnard College issued a statement advising Jewish students to leave campus and return home because of ongoing demonstrations by anti-Israel activists that threaten their safety. Rabbi Elie Buechler, director of OU-LJIC at Columbia/Barnard, urged students via WhatsApp to leave campus “as soon […]
LONDON — London’s police commissioner will meet with senior members of the Jewish community on Monday after the force bungled its apology for suggesting an “openly Jewish” man’s presence along the route of a pro-Palestinian march risked provoking the demonstrators. Amid calls for his resignation, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley is also expected to meet […]
Gideon Falter, the mild-mannered head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, was walking down a street in central London with some friends after attending synagogue. Whether intentional or not, they came across a pro-Palestinian protest march. Mr. Falter was wearing his kippah skull cap and carrying a bag with his […]
In the years after the Nazis took power in 1933, they instituted hundreds of laws and policies at the national, state and local levels to systematically remove Jews from German society. Bans were placed on Jews working as doctors and lawyers and in other professions, and quotas were set, limiting Jews in schools and universities. […]
ROCKVILLE, Md. — The group of first graders had no time to waste — they had matzo to make. The students from Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital had just 18 minutes to prep and cook the cracker-like, unleavened Passover staple if they wanted to keep it kosher for the holiday. It […]
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