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Upstate NY legal dispute underlines ongoing Hasidic community growing pains

New York attorney general backs federal intervention over allegations that town of Forestburgh blocked Jewish development; town rejects...

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Columbia University anti-Israel activists reignite protests with library takeover

Demonstrators call for an ‘intifada revolution,’ disrupting studies before finals week, as the Ivy league school grapples with pressure from Trump...

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In first, US Jewish security outfit opens boot camp for volunteer synagogue guards

New Community Security Service facility drills trainees in surveillance, intel, threat response and Krav Maga, as Jews build out defense array to...

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Anti-Israel singer Kehlani has NYC concert nixed after pressure from mayor’s office

Parks foundation cites ‘security concerns,’ after city threatens to pull license if singer performs in Central Park; anti-Israel demonstrators...

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Official: Lebanese army has dismantled over 90% of Hezbollah infrastructure near border

Official: Lebanese army has dismantled over 90% of Hezbollah infrastructure near border

Iran-backed terror group has withdrawn north of the Litani River without fight, security official claims, as President Aoun says full deployment...

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Maryland rabbis, local Jews reject Jewish Voice for Peace convention in Baltimore

Maryland rabbis, local Jews reject Jewish Voice for Peace convention in Baltimore

US Jewish community leaders push back against anti-Zionist group’s annual gathering, saying activists support terror and ‘undermine the very...

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Crown Heights protest dredges up specter of 1991 race riots, but local environment has changed

Crown Heights protest dredges up specter of 1991 race riots, but local environment has changed

Rhetoric ahead of Monday’s Brooklyn protest leant into racial tensions, echoing past pogrom in neighborhood, but this time demonstration fizzled

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Long-awaited Harvard antisemitism report shows intense campus hostility to Jews, Israelis

Long-awaited Harvard antisemitism report shows intense campus hostility to Jews, Israelis

University’s president apologizes as task force urges reforms to admissions, curriculum, research and bias training; ‘being Jewish was largely...

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Tensions boil in Brooklyn after clashes outside synagogue, threats to Jewish community

Tensions boil in Brooklyn after clashes outside synagogue, threats to Jewish community

Anti-Israel activists threaten local community ahead of protest that comes in response to video of Jews pursuing woman down street at scene of...

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Ben Gvir says his views have evolved at NY event that draws protests and disruptions

Ben Gvir says his views have evolved at NY event that draws protests and disruptions

Far-right national security minister tells receptive audience he’s softened some hard-right views but brings out Israeli demonstrators during rocky...

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Israelis less concerned about made-up news, press freedom than other countries: poll

Israelis less concerned about made-up news, press freedom than other countries: poll

Pew study finds that public in Israel believes media has appropriate level of freedom, is relatively confident in free expression

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Yale strips recognition from anti-Israel group after Ben Gvir protest encampment

Yale strips recognition from anti-Israel group after Ben Gvir protest encampment

Yalies4Palestine ‘flagrantly violated’ rules, Ivy League school says after protesters filmed blocking Jewish student who tried to walk through...

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Ben Gvir starts US trip with visit to Florida prison, gun store, Israeli supermarket

Ben Gvir starts US trip with visit to Florida prison, gun store, Israeli supermarket

Far-right national security minister meets Jewish prison inmates and Boca Raton community before heading to northeast for meetings near Yale and in...

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Spoof song becomes surprise Passover hit in US Orthodox communities

‘Yum Yum,’ by the invented online persona Rabbi Greenspan, and its surrealistic, AI-generated video, illustrate the overlooked internet...

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Israeli tech firms in US spared the worst of Trump tariffs, insiders say

Most Israel-founded companies sell software, which is exempt from administration’s levies, but the broader impact affects firms’...

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NY driver who killed Jewish family was going almost 3 times the speed limit, DA says

Miriam Yarimi arraigned for charges including second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide for accident last month

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Leading US Jewish groups denounce Trump administration’s campus crackdown

Representatives of Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements say federal effort ‘only makes us less safe’

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US immigration detains another Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader

Mohsen Mahdawi, from the West Bank, is taken in by federal agents in Vermont, part of Trump administration’s crackdown on non-citizen activists

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Jewish New York City mayor candidate vows to tackle rats

City comptroller Brad Lander takes aim at rat-hating mayor Eric Adams with new anti-rodent campaign plank

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27 US Jewish groups file support for detained anti-Israel Tufts student

Progressive organizations say detention of Rumeysa Ozturk violates ‘the most basic constitutional rights’

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US Jewish history fuels community’s concerns about Trump deportations

Activists, leaders and historians say perceived erosion of civil rights under administration threatens Jews, even if action needed to combat...

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Leading Palestinian-American drops Harvard position after claims he aided Hamas

University’s Kennedy School of Government says lawsuit against Bashar Masri ‘raises serious allegations that should be vetted’

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Fake Hasidic TikTok rabbi sentenced to 135 years for sexually abusing adoptive sons

Hayim Nissim Cohen, born Jeffrey Lujan Vejil, pleads guilty to sexual assault three years after arrest following allegations by one of 9 children

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AP doubted reliability of Hamas-linked reporter years before Oct. 7, documents show

Internal communications released in lawsuit show newsroom was informed of freelancer’s work for pro-terror media in 2018, but continued to employ him

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Tehran demands France explain arrest of Iranian student

Paris mum after Islamic Republic says it has been unable to contact graduate student Mahdieh Esfandiari or find out why she was detained after...

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Leading Palestinian-American businessman aided Hamas, lawsuit claims

Case in US court alleges Bashar Masri used development projects in Gaza to help terror group carry out October 7 invasion of Israel

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Anti-Israel UN investigator keeps her job despite push for removal by US, EU lawmakers

Francesca Albanese, Human Rights Council official with a history of antisemitism, can remain in office until 2028 after complaints against her are...

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NYC education department investigating after office sends out antisemitic toolkit

Newsletter sent out by career services group includes link to ‘Stop Gaza Genocide’ document, prompting outcry from Jewish education advocates

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UN set to reappoint rapporteur with history of antisemitism, anti-Israel vitriol

Francesca Albanese, known for her regular attacks on the Jewish state, is scheduled to have her 3-year appointment renewed Friday amid pushback...

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With Yiddish insult, synagogue speech, NYC mayoral candidates spar over antisemitism

Former governor Andrew Cuomo lashes opponents in address on antisemitism, drawing fierce pushback from Jewish city comptroller Brad Lander

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US spiritual hot springs retreat discriminated against Jewish musician, lawsuit says

California case aims to expand Title II civil rights protections for Jews, building on case filed by professional gamer earlier this year

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NY State blocks car wash’s ‘discriminatory scam’ targeting Jews for Passover

Investigation finds that Super 4 Seasons charged Jews higher rate for cleaning ahead of holiday ‘because their cars are so dirty,’ falsely said...

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NY Jewish community mourns after driver kills mom, 2 kids in car crash

Shabbat afternoon accident in south Brooklyn allegedly caused by Jewish wigmaker with suspended license and dozens of traffic tickets

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Columbia students’ lawyers, street protest groups part of linked anti-Israel network

Legal representatives for allegedly pro-Hamas students threatened with deportation have advised and mentored activists leading disruptive rallies...

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In NY, 1st conference gives Orthodox Jews a forum to seek out Palestinian perspectives

Transplanted from Israel, grassroots movement Faithful Left to hold large gathering this month to create dialogue on thorny issues such as the West...

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US-Israeli company sells $125k protection dogs to Jews worried about security

Based outside Jerusalem, Israel Protection K9 trains and places military-grade canines with Jewish families unnerved by antisemitism in the US and...

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Anti-Israel protests held at White House and across US after resumption of Gaza strikes

Demonstrations in New York, San Francisco, LA, Dallas and more, after Israel resumes attacks on terror targets

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Another Columbia anti-Israel protester arrested, 3rd ‘self-deports’, US feds say

Arrest comes after detention of university activist Mahmoud Khalil sets off widespread uproar; federal agents visit campus housing; hundreds protest...

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Columbia University expels students for last year’s building takeover

Other activists are suspended or have their degrees revoked; campus anti-Israel groups claim 22 punished; announcement comes as school under fire from...

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Jewish anti-Zionist protesters storm NYC’s Trump Tower in support of Mahmoud Khalil

NYPD confirms multiple arrests as demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace rally to demand release of detained Columbia University anti-Israel...

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Columbia activist facing deportation to remain in detention after 1st court hearing

Hundreds protest in support of Mahmoud Khalil outside New York court amid furious backlash against Trump administration crackdown

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US protesters issue call to arms as Columbia activist threatened with deportation

Hundreds protest outside ICE center in New York for Mahmoud Khalil; legal experts say feds have grounds to deport; free speech group warns of chilling...

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Trump administration cuts $400 million to Columbia University due to antisemitism

Federal antisemitism task force announces cancellations of grants and contracts with NY private university, in most significant step yet in crackdown...

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BDS movement rejects Israeli-Palestinian Oscar winner ‘No Other Land’

Anti-Israel boycott group says film about West Bank home demolitions violates ‘anti-normalization guidelines’

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Man charged with hate crimes for threatening NYC synagogue

Luis Ramirez is arraigned for allegedly making terror threats against Manhattan’s Central Synagogue last month

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Legal assault threatens NY nonprofit that has handled funding for anti-Israel groups

Wespac, a low-profile charity tied to leading activist organizations, is in jeopardy as it battles lawsuits in five courts, including from its own...

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US judge rules crypto lawsuit seeking billions for Oct. 7 victims can move forward

Federal court rules in favor of American victims of Hamas attack, who allege Binance trading platform helped facilitate terror group’s atrocities

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NYPD clears anti-Israel protesters at Barnard College after bomb threat

Student activists distribute Hamas propaganda during library takeover, the latest in a series of escalating disruptions at the Columbia-affiliated...

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US feds weighing cut to $50 million in Columbia U contracts due to antisemitism

Antisemitism task force also reviewing $5 billion in grants to NY institution; Trump threatens funding to colleges that ‘allow illegal protests’

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Stefanik booed at ADL summit for claiming Oct. 7 wouldn’t have happened under Trump

Nominee for US envoy to UN mostly applauded as she warns that ‘the antisemites at the United Nations better buckle up,’ pledges further crackdown...

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