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New York Magazine Libels the Jewish State
08 Jul 2025 20:57 GMT
Suzy Hansen’s June 2025 essay in New York Magazine, “Crimes of the Century: How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law,” charges Israel with breaking international law — not just in the sense of …
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Anti-Israel/Anti-Zionist Speech Doesn't Violate School Board Members' Ethics Obligations, When Said in the Member's Personal Capacity as Professor
08 Jul 2025 21:10 GMT
From yesterday's decision in Siegel v. Aziz (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div.) (by Judges Ronald Susswein and Lisa Perez-Friscia):
Defendant was elected and sworn in as a member on the Westfield Board of Education in January 2021. Her term ended in April 2024 …
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Is Australia turning against its Jews?
08 Jul 2025 10:47 GMT
A synagogue set on fire. An Israeli restaurant stormed. Cars torched.
Manny Waks says the fear gripping Melbourne’s Jews is unlike anything he’s ever seen in Australia.
“This type of blatant violence and the targeting of Jews is a whole new level,” said …
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Antisemitism Bill in NJ Delayed Despite Assurances to Jewish Leaders That It Would Pass
08 Jul 2025 00:59 GMT
… the alleged priorities of worldwide Judaism than to the interests of …
“It also defines Zionism and anti-Zionism, and when it’s OK … setting on fire of peaceful Jewish demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, … need for this bill,” said Rabbi David C. Levy, director …
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83 Percent of Jewish Students Face Campus Hate—How Much More Will Colleges Allow?
07 Jul 2025 19:17 GMT
I walked into that house meeting with a knot of anxiety, a strange sense of paranoia. An hour later, I was running into the freezing Ohio night, barefoot and coatless, tears blurring my vision. My paranoia, it turns out, was simply an instinct for survival …
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Moshe Arbel bans anti-Zionist Neturei Karta rabbi who met with Iran's Araghchi
07 Jul 2025 12:10 GMT
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Anti-Zionist rabbi meets Iranian foreign minister in Brazil
07 Jul 2025 05:23 GMT
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, who is in Brazil to attend BRICS-related side events, held a meeting and discussion with Seyed Abbas Araghchi, the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Rabbi Weiss had previously visited the Iranian Embassy in Brazil …
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Not in our name: Jewish voices of conscience challenge US support for Israel’s Gaza War
06 Jul 2025 14:41 GMT
A growing Jewish movement across the United States is rejecting Israel’s war in Gaza, asserting that Judaism must never be invoked to justify state violence. “Judaism commands us to pursue justice, not to justify injustice.” — Prof. Susannah Heschel
A …
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He wrote the book on American Jewish history. Stepping back from teaching, Jonathan Sarna says he has plenty of chapters still to go.
06 Jul 2025 14:10 GMT
… fellow academics but by rabbis and Jewish communal leaders who explained … general to expel all Jews under his military jurisdiction. … the parallels between American Judaism and other American religions. … about a strand of anti-Zionism among some in his …
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Jewish New Yorkers alarmed by Mamdani’s mayoral rise are living in fear
06 Jul 2025 05:48 GMT
… widely understood to carry anti-Jewish undertones.
MAMDANI’S PUBLIC … to be proudly Jewish and to feel that Jews have a … argues that attempts to separate anti-Zionism from antisemitism don’t … hiding behind that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are not the same …