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A survey commissioned by Hillel, the Jewish campus life organization, also finds that a small minority of Jewish students are 'happy' about pro-Palestinians activism on campus. Two-thirds said protesters used language that was 'antisemitic, threatening or derogatory to Jewish people'

As the homeland and protector of the Jewish people, Israel must take this proactive measure to combat the rising tide of hatred and prejudice.

Since October 7, the flagrantly anti-democratic, morally bankrupt political theology of Israel's right-wing Jewish radicals, a worldview that justifies the death, starvation, and hunger of Palestinians, is becoming more dominant. Jews in Israel and around the world must confront this desecration of our tradition

  Amidst a wave of protests by pro-Palestinian students across the US, Jewish students have decided to launch a counterattack against displays of antisemitism. Liat (not her real name), a doctoral student at Harvard University, was one of the central activists on campus. Together with other students, she entered the anti-Israel lion's den on campus […]

Ane-Lise Bylov Jespersen, a 103-year-old nun from Denmark, was officially thanked by Israel's ambassador to Denmark. When Bylov Jespersen was 22, she saved the lives of two Jewish babies during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and took care of them until the end of the war

'Our standards of discourse have been poisoned," one Jewish student says. 'People think, because there's something terrible happening far away, it is OK to behave poorly here, and that strikes me as exactly the sort of anti-intellectualism that universities are supposed to combat, not embrace'

  Columbia University is facing a class action lawsuit accusing the prestigious school of failing to keep Jewish students safe amid the wave of anti-Israel protests that have disrupted the Ivy League campus, according to the New York Post. Massive class action lawsuit just filed against @Columbia The plaintiffs are seeking relief for the […]

The congresswoman noted that she had met a number of Jewish students who were participating in the encampment.

Fellow students proudly tell me they're 'with Hamas.' A Pro-Palestinian protester near campus pinned me to a wall. Being visibly Jewish at Columbia if you're pro-Israel means you're unprotected, abandoned and with no expectation of accountability from the university itself

After over 100 students were detained and many arrested at Columbia University last week, protests sprung up at universities across the country in solidarity with those arrested. University of Pennsylvania banned a protest group for harassing Jewish students and faculty

Protests erupted at Columbia University over Israel divestment calls. Jewish students express discomfort amid arrests and chants, recalling past trauma. Campus tension intensifies.

There was some pushback from the centrist and right-wing Jewish officials present, who called on the United States to support whatever decision Israel makes.

Protesters targeted Labour leader Keir Starmer's home, distressing his Jewish wife Victoria. Three face charges for breaching bail conditions in related protests.

  The leaders of the two major Jewish lobbying groups of the two parties in the US issued a rare and united call to Congress overnight between Sunday and Monday demanding approval of the aid package to Israel, following Iran's massive missile attack. This is a step unprecedented in decades, if ever. In a joint […]

Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, was the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party in 2000 when he was Al Gore's running mate

Due to his Jewish background, controversy erupts over Aaron Taylor-Johnson's rumored James Bond casting. Fans split on boycott calls.

Using the hashtag #BoycottJamesBond on X, users have highlighted Taylor-Johnson’s Jewish origins and protested the choice. 

Nurses wearing pro-Palestinian stickers allegedly ejected a visibly 9-year-old Jewish boy from his bed, while he was receiving treatment for his rare blood disease.

'It's embarrassing, it's a waste of money, it's kind of scary, and it's not befitting a university,' said the head of the Jewish studies center U.C. Irvine, after he decided to stop holding lectures due to disruptions and harassment from pro-Palestinian protesters

'The Jewish Holiday Table' is a compilation of family recipes from across the Jewish world. Between a Purim feast from Zimbabwe and a Kurdish Shavuot spread, The author, Naama Shefi, put together tales of traveling from Yemen to Israel by camel and fleeing Ethiopia in the dead of night