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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

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

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...

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

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...

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21% of American voters back Hamas over Israel — poll

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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Columbia University professor retires as probe finds she discriminated against Israelis

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

‘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

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,’...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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...

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