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Protesters outside Columbia University, April 30, 2024. (Luke Tress)

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Columbia pro-Palestinian group endorses violence and walks back apology for student who said ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’

By Luke Tress

Student activists say “violence is the only path forward” and back “armed resistance.”

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, places a rock on the gravestone of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson as Ben Shapiro watches at Ohel Chabad Lubavitch on October 7, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

PoliticsTrump visits Queens gravesite of Chabad rabbi to mark Oct. 7

By Luke Tress

October 8, 2024, 7:49 pm

Trump visits Queens gravesite of Chabad rabbi to mark Oct. 7

The visit to the Ohel, as the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is known, served as a gesture to a Jewish constituency that is expected to support Trump in the election.

By Luke Tress

October 8, 2024, 7:39 pm

Columbia pro-Palestinian group endorses violence and walks back apology for student who said ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’

Student activists say “violence is the only path forward” and back “armed resistance.”

By Luke Tress

Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota take part in the vice-presidential debate at CBS Studios, New York City, Oct. 1, 2024. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

October 2, 2024, 11:41 am

Tim Walz, JD Vance stand by Israel in VP debate but spar over Trump’s ability to contain Iran

The only scheduled debate between the vice presidential candidates took place hours after Iran attacked Israel.

By Ron Kampeas

New York Mayor Eric Adams speaks to Jewish college students at City Hall, Sept. 23, 2024. (Luke Tress)

September 27, 2024, 12:21 pm

What Eric Adams’ Jewish supporters and critics are saying after his indictment

Adams has built ties to Jewish communities during his decades-long rise through New York City politics, connections that may assist him as he fights the charges.

By Luke Tress

The Manhattan office of New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti, Sept. 27, 2024. (Ben Sales)

September 27, 2024, 12:15 pm

Congressman’s office vandalized as pro-Palestinian protests reignite across NYC

“F— Israel” and inverted triangles painted outside Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s Washington Heights office.

By Luke Tress

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center, Chicago, Aug. 21, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

September 24, 2024, 2:59 pm

Michigan AG Dana Nessel: Rashida Tlaib’s criticism is ‘antisemitic’

The exchange between Nessel and Tlaib stems from Nessel’s decision to file charges this month against 11 pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Michigan.

By Ron Kampeas

Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib is photographed in his office at the City Hall in Hamtramck, Michigan, September 10, 2023. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

September 24, 2024, 2:00 pm

Mayor of Muslim-majority Michigan city endorses Trump

Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib has joined hardline pro-Israel Jews in backing Trump.

By Andrew Lapin

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before prominent Jewish donors at an event titled "Fighting Anti-Semitism in America" at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., Sept. 19, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

September 23, 2024, 10:51 am

Jewish leaders express alarm at Trump’s blaming Jews if he loses

“Preemptively blaming American Jews for your potential election loss does zero to help American Jews." — Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL

By Ron Kampeas

A sign is posted in front of the 23andMe headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, Feb. 1, 2024. The genetic data testing company was the target of a hack aimed at users with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

September 18, 2024, 3:29 pm

23andMe agrees to $30M settlement over data breach targeting Jewish and Chinese users

The breach, which occurred last October, affected more than 6.9 million customers and included users’ personal details such as their location, name and birthdate.

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, speaks during a hearing at the U.S. Capitol, July 11, 2024. (Bonnie Cash/Getty Images)

September 18, 2024, 12:23 pm

In contentious Senate hearing, divisions over fighting antisemitism come to the fore

The emotional hearing was briefly brought to a stop by someone shouting antisemitic invective.

By Ron Kampeas

The artist Mark Podwal in his studio in 2007; at right, his illustration "Munich Massacre," drawn in memory of Israeli athletes killed by Black September terrorists during Summer Olympics in Munich, was published in the New York Times in 1972. (Wikipedia)

September 17, 2024, 12:52 pm

Artist and physician Mark Podwal, whose work adorned museums and synagogues, dies at 79

Podwal devised a Jewish visual vocabulary that made him one of the best known Jewish artists of his era.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Matt Nelson was rushed to the hospital with severe burn wounds after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Boston Wednesday night, in protest of the Israel-Hamas war. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

September 17, 2024, 12:35 pm

Man suffers severe burns after self-immolation protest outside Israeli consulate in Boston

The incident marks at least the third instance of self-immolation in the United States outside of an Israeli consulate or embassy in protest of Israel's military campaign in Gaza.

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., from atop McGraw Tower, looking southeast. (Credit: sach1tb/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons)

September 17, 2024, 11:33 am

Cornell professor, who called Oct. 7 ‘energizing,’ back after ‘voluntary leave

Rep. Claudia Tenney told the New York Post that she is “deeply disgusted” that the Ivy League school is still employing Russell Rickford.

By JNS

The interior of the Law Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. (Cadop via Creative Commons)

September 16, 2024, 2:23 pm

U of Michigan condemns assault of Jewish student on campus

The victim said he was assaulted by a group of men who were walking behind him and “asked if he was Jewish.” When he said that he was, they attacked him.

By Andrew Lapin

Alex Edelman's antisemitism-focused one-man show, "Just For Us," is premiering on HBO as a comedy special. (Courtesy Max)

September 16, 2024, 9:05 am

Alex Edelman wins Emmy for his HBO comedy special on antisemitism and Jewish identity

The show centers on Edelman's experience attending a meeting of white nationalists in Queens, New York.

By Ben Sales