“Interfaith work is at the center of the work to save this country,” Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum told a summit on religious freedom in public schools Sept. 15. Kleinbaum, senior rabbi emerita at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York City,…
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace to Jewish progressive: ‘I have a good surgeon if you ever want to get your nose done’
A Republican member of Congress who has been a vocal opponent of campus antisemitism told a progressive Jewish Democrat on Wednesday to “get your nose done.”
Northwestern University’s Jewish president resigns amid pressures over handling of campus antisemitism
After more than a year of strife over his handling of campus antisemitism, the Jewish president of Northwestern University says he is stepping down weeks before the start of the school’s fall semester.
The Head of the A.D.L. on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Free Speech
Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s nearly two-year war in Gaza since have convulsed not only the region but the world. Here in the United States, the rise in antisemitic incidents and questions of how criticism…
Canada’s antisemitism envoy resigns abruptly: ‘It was hard to get people to speak up’
Canada’s envoy for combating antisemitism is leaving her job early, partly out of exhaustion from “waking up every day to a fight.”
Jewish Faculty Call Out Weaponization Of Antisemitism Label In Higher Education
A growing number of Jewish staff and faculty in higher education are speaking out against what they say is the federal government and their own institutions weaponizing accusations of antisemitism in order to silence dissent, punish those who criticize the Israeli government and exert…
Swedish far-right party apologizes for its past links to Nazis and antisemitism ahead of elections
The far-right nationalist party Swedish Democrats apologized Thursday for its past links to Naziism and antisemitism ahead of the country’s national elections next year.
Reckoning with fear, justice and the misuse of ‘Free Palestine’
I come to this writing not as a bystander, but as a neighbor, a witness and a believer in justice, peace and the sacred dignity of every human being. On a recent afternoon in Boulder, I stood shoulder to shoulder…
‘This is not the way of peace,’ Boulder Baptist pastor says after attack
The pastor of a Baptist church located just blocks from a violent attack on Jews last Sunday told his congregation, “We must not conflate Jewish people or Judaism with the Israeli government, though we can and should condemn antisemitism and…
In California, Jewish leaders swap ethnic studies battle for fighting antisemitism in schools — with allies
A potential breakthrough arrived earlier this month in California’s years-long debate over ethnic studies, in which Jewish groups fought to ensure that a curriculum mandate would not lead to teachers presenting Jews unfairly or singling out Israel.
Trump’s redefining of ‘antisemitism’ is all part of a plan
Before President Donald Trump’s second election, the Heritage Foundation created a blueprint for dismantling support for Palestinians in the U.S. Trump already has implemented three key parts of the plan: attacking nonprofits, cutting funding for universities and revoking visas of…
The rise of Yehuda Kaploun: How a Hasidic fixer became Trump’s nominee for antisemitism czar
The first time Yehuda Kaploun’s name entered the Congressional Record, it was because a senator named Joe Biden had elevated his concerns about antisemitism.