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Luke Tress

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New York, Rio de Janeiro landmarks lit orange to honor murdered Bibas family

New York, Rio de Janeiro landmarks lit orange to honor murdered Bibas family

New York governor orders 14 state sites to be illuminated in color that symbolized fight to free the redheaded children; Christ the Redeemer statue in...

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Gaza captor told hostages that Hamas collaborates with US campus protesters, lawsuit alleges

Gaza captor told hostages that Hamas collaborates with US campus protesters, lawsuit alleges

Case filed by three former hostages against US nonprofit says member of terror group who held them claimed to be working with ‘allies’ at...

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‘Excited Jews are coming back’: US Jewish group receives warm welcome in Syria

‘Excited Jews are coming back’: US Jewish group receives warm welcome in Syria

Delegation of American Jews visits Damascus for first time since Assad regime’s fall, finding hospitality but Jewish sites in disrepair

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US colleges could learn from Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, says head of eco institute

US colleges could learn from Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, says head of eco institute

Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, from East Jerusalem, says Arava program’s students have compulsory, confidential, ‘brave’ conversations where...

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Clashes break out at anti-Israel protest in Brooklyn Jewish neighborhood

Clashes break out at anti-Israel protest in Brooklyn Jewish neighborhood

Pro-Palestinian activists shout ‘settlers go back home’ and ‘we don’t want no Zionists here’ at Boro Park rally that was widely condemned as...

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Israeli UFC fighter Natan Levy trains New York Jews in self-defense

Israeli UFC fighter Natan Levy trains New York Jews in self-defense

Mixed martial arts star teaches seminar for Krav Maga program, part of a larger push for community security training in the wake of Oct. 7

18.02.2025 30

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Suspect arrested while entering New York after threatening synagogue

Suspect arrested while entering New York after threatening synagogue

Luis Ramirez, from Utah, caught driving into Manhattan, the latest in a series of thwarted attacks against US Jewish institutions

16.02.2025 50

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US House panel demands Columbia provide disciplinary records for anti-Israel activists

US House panel demands Columbia provide disciplinary records for anti-Israel activists

Republican-led oversight committee denounces university’s handling of protesters; Columbia says it’s taking new measures to address antisemitism...

14.02.2025 30

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NYC’s oldest Hatzalah volunteer, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 88

NYC’s oldest Hatzalah volunteer, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 88

Yehuda Lindenblatt, who survived the Nazi invasion of Budapest, went on emergency calls until his mid-80s

14.02.2025 10

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New research project aims to counter US Jewish activist groups that hold minority views

New research project aims to counter US Jewish activist groups that hold minority views

The Jewish Majority releases first poll on community’s attitudes toward campus protests, anti-Zionism; leading demographer questions its methodology

13.02.2025 10

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Israeli app helps US Jewish groups get out the vote for key campaigns

Israeli app helps US Jewish groups get out the vote for key campaigns

UpVote allows volunteers to contact acquaintances for voter outreach, has been used in pivotal congressional races

11.02.2025 30

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Suspect charged with hate crime for attack on Jews in Brooklyn with metal shears

Suspect charged with hate crime for attack on Jews in Brooklyn with metal shears

Footage of assault in Crown Heights shows man lunging at pedestrians, the latest in a series of antisemitic incidents reported in the city in...

10.02.2025 20

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NY Times downplays Israeli post-Oct. 7 losses, Hamas role in war, data study says

NY Times downplays Israeli post-Oct. 7 losses, Hamas role in war, data study says

Research by Yale professor says newspaper minimizes Palestinian violence following Hamas attack on Israel, leaving readers with ‘distorted’ view of...

09.02.2025 20

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Protester who demanded ‘Zionists’ exit NYC subway gets 4 hours of community service

Protester who demanded ‘Zionists’ exit NYC subway gets 4 hours of community service

Anti-Israel activist who drew widespread condemnation last year receives light sentence, prompting rebuke from leading Jewish security group

06.02.2025 20

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US Justice Department launches task force aimed at combating campus antisemitism

Initiative is the latest step by Trump administration to crack down on hardline anti-Israel protesters and harassment of Jewish students

04.02.2025 60

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Jewish professor quits Columbia, citing ‘systematic’ anti-Israel bias on campus

Prof. Avi Friedman, award-winning business school instructor, lashes NY university for having a professor who celebrated the Oct. 7 Hamas attack teach...

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New York City names street ‘Yad Vashem Way’ amid rampant antisemitism

Block named after Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial at ceremony attended by local and Israeli officials: ‘This is a reminder, a memory’

31.01.2025 80

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US student protesters target Israeli veterans wounded on October 7

Ohio State University activists demonstrate against lecture by 2 soldiers hurt in Hamas attack who are on American campus tour

30.01.2025 50

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NY governor condemns NYC university system’s faculty union for Israel boycott vote

Resolution passed by CUNY’s Professional Staff Congress, representing 30,000 members, puts organization at odds with the university administration...

30.01.2025 40

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NYC campaign urges Jews to vote in city elections: ‘Antisemitism is on the ballot’

Volunteers with the Jewish Voters Action Network tap into their social circle to get friends and family to register as Democrats and get to the ballot...

26.01.2025 40

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Anti-masking bill backed by leading Jewish groups introduced to New York legislature

Legislation would create crime of ‘masked intimidation,’ partially in response to anti-Israel protests and antisemitic hate crimes

24.01.2025 10

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NY Jewish man arrested in 2022 synagogue shooting plot sentenced to 2.5 years

Matthew Mahrer apologizes to family as he heads to prison for case that divided Jewish community members

23.01.2025 40

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Columbia anti-Israel activists start semester with protest, disrupt Israeli prof’s class

Activists barge in on modern Israeli history lesson, chant for ‘intifada’ outside New York campus gates; counter-protesters hold Israeli...

22.01.2025 60

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More ‘sober’ US Reform movement and Israelis reach new understandings, lead rabbi says

After Israel trip, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of New York’s Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, says visit to northern, southern borders helped young US...

21.01.2025 30

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21% of American voters back Hamas over Israel — poll

Support for terror group highest among Democrats; 82% of all respondents back the ceasefire-hostage release agreement

20.01.2025 10

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Gunman shoots dead 2 judges in Iran’s capital tied to 1988 mass executions

Assailant said to kill himself after attack at high-security Palace of Justice in Tehran; bodyguard also wounded

18.01.2025 30

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NY’s anti-Zionist protesters celebrate ceasefire as victory, hail the ‘resistance’

No indication of a change in direction among anti-Israel activists after Gaza deal announced — only vows to continue calling to eradicate the...

18.01.2025 40

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NY synagogue to host concert celebrating Black-Jewish ties amid tensions over Gaza war

January 19 ‘Soul to Soul’ program hosted by the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue leans into congregation’s historical involvement in the...

17.01.2025 20

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Columbia University professor retires as probe finds she discriminated against Israelis

Katherine Franke leaves school after investigation says she violated university discrimination policy when saying Israeli students harass Palestinians...

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‘We don’t want no Zionists here’: Anti-Israel activists protest against NYC hospital

NEW YORK — Several hundred anti-Israel protesters demonstrated on Monday outside the NYU Langone Health Center in New York City. The protest was...

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Hundreds chant for ‘intifada’ at New Year’s Day protest in NYC’s Times Square

NEW YORK — Several hundred demonstrators called for an intifada on Wednesday at an anti-Israel protest in New York City’s Times Square to mark New...

02.01.2025 70

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Nearly half of ultra-Orthodox Jews in US know victims of post-Oct. 7 antisemitism — poll

NEW YORK — Nearly half of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States know someone targeted by antisemitism in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7...

28.12.2024 10

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This Chabadnik is on a mission to wrap tefillin for Jewish celebrities

NEW YORK — Yossi Farro, a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, was walking down a street in Los Angeles in the fall of 2022 when he saw...

24.12.2024 7

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Villagers in Syria border town claim IDF preventing them from accessing their fields

Israeli forces have set up a position in an abandoned Syrian army base in the village of Maariyah and prevented local farmers from accessing their...

20.12.2024 10

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FBI arrests college student for plotting mass casualty attack on Israeli consulate in NYC

NEW YORK — The FBI has arrested a suspect for a planned mass casualty terror attack against the Israeli consulate in New York City, the consulate...

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Anti-Israel protesters rally outside NYU library on last day of class

NEW YORK — Several dozen anti-Israel protesters rallied outside New York University’s main library on Thursday, snarling students’ study plans...

13.12.2024 20

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Fate of Jewish man facing sentencing over 2022 synagogue threat divides a NYC community

New York Jewish Week — In November of 2022, a Jewish security group flagged a tweet from a white supremacist named Christopher Brown threatening to...

12.12.2024 10

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Columbia’s anti-Israel student alliance booted from Instagram

Columbia University Apartheid Divest removed from social media platform after post calling Barnard College trustees ‘enemies,’ ‘murderers,’ and ‘...

10.12.2024 10

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Charges dismissed against NY rabbi accused of hitting Columbia protesters with car

JTA — All charges have been dismissed against a Manhattan rabbi and real estate developer who was accused of ramming his vehicle into...

06.12.2024 7

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Trump taps Jewish financier Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO, who has been supportive of Trump’s tariffs plan, will oversee issues related to foreign and domestic trade; had been...

20.11.2024 5

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Columbia paid $395,000 after suspending Jewish student for using ‘fart spray’ at protest

Newly-released House report on campus antisemitism says school allowed anti-Israel activists to spread false claim novelty item was chemical...

02.11.2024 6

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Congressman’s office vandalized as pro-Palestinian protests reignite across NYC

Democratic politician’s windows defaced with anti-Israel graffiti, including inverted red triangle, a symbol Hamas uses to mark its targets in...

28.09.2024 10

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Republican Jewish confab kicks off in Vegas, focusing on domestic antisemitism spike

Speakers repeatedly link Biden and Harris to Oct. 7 massacre and subsequent fallout for American Jews, mourn the six captives executed by Hamas

06.09.2024 20

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Columbia task force reports ‘crushing’ discrimination against Jews and Israelis

University’s Task Force on Antisemitism says students driven out of dorms and campus, ostracized by peers and denigrated by faculty

31.08.2024 10

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New ADL archive aims to show how hate – and the fight against it – have evolved

A multi-year initiative will catalog and digitize files kept since the Anti-Defamation League’s 1913 founding, aiding researchers and showing the...

23.08.2024 10

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‘Humanity will win’: Jewish Olympic wrestling champion Amit Elor condemns antisemitism

After avoiding subject ahead of Paris, Elor posts video sporting yellow hostages pin, while decrying hatred that ‘is still all around us,’ says ‘my...

10.08.2024 6

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Pro-Palestinian vandals deface building of Columbia U. administrator, release insects

Anti-Israel activists also smash glass door, put up threatening posters; NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force investigates

10.08.2024 40

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3 Columbia deans quit after exchanging texts deriding campus antisemitism concerns

Resignations come two months after administrators made mocking remarks during panel on hatred at campus, which university president said echoed ‘...

09.08.2024 5

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