New YorkNYPD makes arrests as anti-Israel protesters hold sit-in at Trump TowerThe gathering was organised by the Jewish Voice for Peace groupBy Vita Fellig1 min read
Columbia universityColumbia refusing to help identify ‘pro-Hamas’ students, White House saysThe White House has said they are trying to track down other students involved in the protestsBy Andrew Bernard3 min read
New York Jewish judge temporarily blocks deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia protest leaderThe leader of the New York university’s pro-Palestinian movement was detained by immigration officials last weekendBy Andrew Bernard2 min read
By Melissa Langsam BraunsteinAmerican Jews buck the US trend and turn away from religionBut will antisemitism on dating sites change the picture in the future?3 min read
UniversitiesPalestine protestors occupy Barnard building after students expelledDemonstrators called for an ‘amnesty’ for the pair, who were accused of ‘harassing’ Jewish peersBy Vita Fellig1 min read
CartoonJules Feiffer, Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist and playwright dies at 95Cartoonist who exposed the angst and hypocrisy of the post-war American eliteBy Gloria Tessler6 min read
Anti-Israel ‘vigil’ held in New York to mourn killed Hezbollah leader Hassan NasrallahBy Emily Goldberg3 min read||February 25, 2025 11:31
Anti-Israel protesters target Chasidic area of Brooklyn with ‘settlers go home’ chantsProtesters demonstrated in Borough Park outside an Israeli real estate eventBy Ellie Grant1 min read||February 19, 2025 17:15
Glasgow anti-Zionist Yiddish café which blamed ‘capitalism’ for its closing eyes up move to New YorkNow the cafe can be ‘not just in the middle of nowhere in Scotland’, its owners saidBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read||February 7, 2025 14:15
Judge denies attempt to block Jewish students’ lawsuit over violent campus protest‘These events took place in 2023, not 1943,’ wrote John Cronan in his rulingBy Izzy Salant2 min read||February 6, 2025 12:29
Jewish actor Wallace Shawn says Israeli actions in Gaza are worse than Nazis‘The Princess Bride’ actor compared Israel to the Nazis during a podcast appearance this weekBy Eliana Jordan1 min read||February 4, 2025 11:30
Marion Weisel, translator, activist and wife of Elie Wiesel dies at 94By JC Reporter1 min read||February 3, 2025 16:15
New York renames Manhattan street ‘Yad Vashem way’Israel’s Holocaust museum will be permanently marked in the cityBy Vita Fellig3 min read||January 31, 2025 11:20
Virgin flight from London to New York gets an unexpected Hebrew twist‘Trippy’ Virgin Atlantic safety video with Hebrew subtitles baffles travellersBy Jane Prinsley1 min read||January 26, 2025 12:15
Nearly 1,000 sign petition calling on Brooklyn cinema to ban ‘Zionist propaganda’ film about 1972 Munich massacreThe petition complains that Black September murderers are shown as ‘antisemitic terrorists’By Imogen Garfinkel1 min read||January 12, 2025 10:10
