Grace Gilson
U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
April 23, 2025, 3:31 pm
Trump says he and Netanyahu are ‘on the same side of every issue’ following talks on Iran, tariffs
The call also covered negotiations over another potential ceasefire in Gaza, according to Axios.
By Grace Gilson
Sharon Osbourne attends the Los Angeles premiere of Focus Features 'The Bikeriders' at TCL Chinese Theatre on June 17, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Emma McIntyre/WireImage)
April 23, 2025, 1:02 pm
Sharon Osbourne calls for Kneecap to lose US visas after anti-Israel Coachella performance
Other Jewish stars — and Nova festival survivors — are also criticizing the Irish band.
By Grace Gilson
Pro-Palestinian students and activists protest at an encampment in the campus of California State University, Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California, May 6, 2024. (Etienne Laurent / AFP via Getty Images)
April 22, 2025, 8:28 am
ADL says antisemitic incidents rose over 80% on college campuses last year
This is the fourth year in a row that antisemitic incidents have broken all previous annual records, the ADL reports.
By Grace Gilson
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks onstage at ADL's Never Is Now conference on March 3, 2025 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)
April 17, 2025, 10:08 am
Noa Argamani, ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt among over a dozen Jews on TIME 100 list
Adrien Brody, Scarlett Johansson and Mark Zuckerberg also made the list.
By Grace Gilson
The National Transportation Safety Board gives a briefing on the plane crash that killed six in New York's Hudson Valley, April 12, 2025. (Screenshot)
April 15, 2025, 5:22 pm
Jewish family on way to Passover seder killed in NY plane crash
One of the victims, Karenna Groff, played for team USA at the 2019 European Maccabi Games.
By Grace Gilson
University Hall at Northwestern University. (Wikimedia Commons)
April 15, 2025, 3:04 pm
Northwestern University defaced by anti-Israel graffiti during Passover
Northwestern faces $790 million in funding cuts from the Trump administration over allegations of campus antisemitism.
By Grace Gilson
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia who was arrested by ICE in March 2025, speaking to media. (Screenshot)
April 14, 2025, 9:17 pm
Mahmoud Khalil can be deported over antisemitism concerns, judge rules
The ruling cited a memo signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in which he determined Khalil’s campus activism was antisemitic.
By Grace Gilson
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, President Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testifies during his confirmation hearing. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
April 10, 2025, 9:52 am
Senate confirms Mike Huckabee as Israel ambassador
Pennsylvania's John Fetterman was the sole Democrat to support Trump’s pick.
By Grace Gilson
France's President Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference at the 19th Summit of the Francophonie at the Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 5, 2024. On the Oct. 7 anniversary he expressed his solidarity with “the pain of the Israeli people” on social media and met with the families of French hostages being held by Hamas. (Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images)
April 10, 2025, 9:45 am
France will move to recognize a Palestinian state this year, Macron says
The decision would be a major shift for the country with Europe’s largest Jewish community.
By Grace Gilson
Demonstrators gather outside the Federal Courthouse in New York City to show support for Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and to demand his release from ICE detention on March 12, 2025. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)
April 8, 2025, 3:34 pm
In new letter, Mahmoud Khalil downplays campus antisemitism
The detained Columbia grad and other students filed a lawsuit seeking to block the university from sending disciplinary records to a House committee last month.
By Grace Gilson
Noah Wyle in HBO's "The Pitt." (Warrick Page/MAX)
April 7, 2025, 9:32 am
Noah Wyle, star of HBO’s ‘The Pitt,’ recites Shema on screen
The Jewish actor tapped his father’s Russian-Jewish heritage in the creation of his character, known as “Dr. Robby.”
By Grace Gilson
Dozens of Harvard Medical School faculty and students protested outside of the school on March 15, 2024. They were protesting an event featuring the president of the American Medical Association, over the powerful physicians' group's repeated refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
April 1, 2025, 10:51 am
Trump administration to review nearly $9 billion in Harvard funding over campus antisemitism
The administration froze $400 million in funding to Columbia last month over similar concerns.
By Grace Gilson
Activists hold a banner during a pro-refugee demonstration organized by HIAS outside the U.S. Capitol, Sept. 14, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)
March 27, 2025, 2:44 pm
Judge blocks Trump bid to suspend refugee funding
Another ruling allowed some refugees to enter the United States.
By Grace Gilson
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts campus. (Courtesy Tufts University)
March 27, 2025, 2:06 pm
Tufts international grad student detained by ICE in latest action targeting pro-Palestinian activist
Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested on her way to an iftar meal Tuesday night.
By Grace Gilson
March 26, 2025, 11:29 am
Nearly a quarter of Americans raised Jewish have left the religion, survey says
17% of U.S. adults raised Jewish now describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated. Others practice a different faith.
By Grace Gilson
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