Melissa Langsam Braunstein

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At Columbia, a new Jewish president faces an old antisemitism problem

It should soon be clear whether Mnookin is a role model or someone the university’s Board of Trustees picked to protect the broken status quo

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Anti-Israel protest at Columbia University (Image: Getty)

Protesters block Israeli comedian Guy Hochman (r) Image: X

From heckler’s veto to divestment: how Jewish life is under assault in New York

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (Image: Getty)

Can New York keep hate at safe distance from shuls?

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A view of Breads Bakery during the 2024 Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival (Image: Getty)

How Breads Bakery in New York became a target of anti-Zionist union activism

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Guess who allegedly taught that Zionism is a mental illness? A leader in America’s top psychology body

Washington’s investigations into anti-Jewish discrimination have turned to the psychotherapy sector

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January 5, 2026 12:39

Students protest in support of Palestine and for free speech outside of the Columbia University campus (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Antisemitism is a national security threat

Jew-hatred is not merely a moral failing. It operates as a strategic weapon – one that corrodes alliance cohesion, weakens deterrence, and undermines the legitimacy on which American power rests

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December 17, 2025 16:41

Sebastian Gorka (r), National Security Council’s Senior Director for Counterterrorism, and Mike Doran, Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. (Image: Hudson Institute)

The New York school that silenced a Holocaust survivor

The school reportedly has a ‘social activism’ unit that features a module titled ‘Fashion as Activism’, which ‘explicitly includes the keffiyeh’

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December 9, 2025 17:39

Holocaust Survivor Sami Steigmann is photographed in his home on December 9, 2024 in New York. Steigmann was born on December 21, 1939 in Czernovitz, Bukovina region, Romania. From 1941 through 1944, he was with his parents in the Ukraine at Mogilev-Podolsky, a labor camp in an area called Transnistria. Being too young to work, Sami was subjected to Nazi medical experimentation in his early years. The camp was liberated by the Red Army and his family was deported by the Romanians. Thirty five of his paternal family members as well as many other relatives were murdered by the Nazis. Today, he lives under the poverty line relying on direct financial aid of The Blue Card and continues his work as a motivational speaker and educator. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

In the US, teachers are organising walkouts where students chant ‘kill the Jews’

A House committee on education has launched an investigation into school antisemitism – and the submissions are chastening

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December 2, 2025 16:53

Committee chair US Representative Tim Walberg, Republican from Michigan, speaks during a House Workforce and Education Committee (Photo by OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

The US moves toward a reckoning with the Muslim Brotherhood

With Texas leading an unprecedented state-level terror designation and federal scrutiny intensifying, America is edging toward a decisive showdown with the Islamists and their network of affiliates

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November 26, 2025 15:36

US President Donald Trump (Image: Getty)

The Democrats’ ominous anti-Zionist turn

AIPAC is increasingly becoming a lightning rod. The question is whether the party will allow its extremist fringe to define its position on Israel, or whether the silent majority will finally speak out

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November 21, 2025 17:34

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 12: A visitor holds an AIPAC folder in an elevator in Rayburn House Office Building on March 12, 2024 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

NY Jews prepare to fight back against anti-Zionist mayor Zohran Mamdani

From schools and policing to business regulation, communal groups are bracing for a hostile City Hall

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November 13, 2025 16:49

New York City Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani in white shirt, speaks to members of the Centro Islamico del Caribe -Masjid Ebadur Rahman mosque on November 7, 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Getty Images)

Follow Tucker Carlson and you’ll fall off a cliff

Heritage Foundation must show better judgement or risk destroying all they should stand for

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November 5, 2025 14:31

Embracing extremism: Tucker Carlson (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Meet the Democratic candidate with a Nazi tattoo on his chest

Left-wingers have rallied round to support Graham Platner and dismiss concern about his Totenkopf tattoo

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November 3, 2025 11:23

OGUNQUIT, MAINE - OCTOBER 22: U.S. senatorial candidate from Maine Graham Platner speaks at a town hall at the Leavitt Theater on October 22, 2025 in Ogunquit, Maine. Platner, a veteran of the U.S. Marines and an oyster farmer, is running for the seat held by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). (Photo by Sophie Park/Getty Images)

The Republicans’ choice: Copy the Democrats or reject extremists?

A racist Young Republican chat has triggered a fight on the US right: Should they pursue unity at any cost, or learn from the left’s collapse and reject radicals within their own camp

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October 24, 2025 09:36

Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears. (Image: Getty)

The myth of ‘Jewish power’: How AIPAC became America’s bogeyman

The pro-Israel lobby is painted as uniquely sinister on the far left and far right. In truth it speaks for millions of Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, who simply support a strong US-Israel relationship

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October 17, 2025 14:12