Despite feelings of alienation from Israeli society and, in some cases, a diminished sense of personal security, there are Arab teachers in the Jewish education system who continue to believe they have a mission to fulfill
Saif Kwasmi was slightly wounded in the head after about 10 Jewish boys attacked him. He continued to work and was later detained by police and his equipment was confiscated after a known right-wing activist contacted them and claimed that Kwasmi was a Hamas operative
The settlement is a major development in Jewish groups’ efforts to hold universities accountable in light of a reported increase in campus antisemitism since Oct. 7.
At the MiddleMeets initiative at Tel Aviv University, Arab and Jewish students talk with each other about the Holocaust, the Nakba, October 7 and the bombing of Gaza. The goal: Not to give up. Could it work on the battleground of U.S. campuses too?
A student sought legal action against the administration to ensure safe access to campus for Jewish students who feel threatened by student protest encampments. The agreement will create a 'Safe Passage Liaison' and accommodations for students who couldn't access campus during exams
Claudia Sheinbaum is set to win a landslide victory to become Mexico's first female and Jewish president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph. At least five exit polls showed Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico […]
Shortly after the war in Gaza started, 10 artists – half of them Jewish, half of them Palestinian – lived and worked together as part of a residency program
John, 15 (full name withheld) is the only Jewish student at his school in Dublin, the Irish capital. Since October 7, he cannot forget or suppress this fact for a moment. Like many other Jews living in the country, he is trying to survive under incessant antisemitic fire. "A month ago, some kids at […]
On February 27, "Zionists not welcome," was found scrawled on the door of a dorm room with an arrow pointing to a mezuzah, a religious item traditionally placed on every door frame in a Jewish home.
Lawsuit filed against Haverford College claims violation of Jewish students' civil rights, alleging hostility, double standards, and failure to address antisemitic behavior.
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'
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