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Cornell and Northwestern to see nearly $2B frozen amid Trump’s antisemitism crackdown

The American Jewish Committee has come out firmly against Trump’s funding freezes.

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You need a non-Jewish neighbor to perform this Passover ritual. Thank heavens.

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How ‘October 8’ and ‘The Encampments,’ two new documentaries on America post-Oct. 7, talk right past each other

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The Passover seder is a model for healing democracies in peril

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Muslim prayer room at NYU vandalized with name of Jewish fraternity

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A publisher is reissuing a 1931 novel to bolster Jewish representation in Hollywood

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It’s official: Southeast Florida’s Jewish population is growing — and getting younger

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Freed hostage Liri Albag responds to backlash over Netanyahu criticism: ‘I fear what we have become’

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Asked if he plans to drop 17% tariff on Israeli goods, Trump says, ‘Maybe not’

Israeli soldiers guard in the northern West Bank on May 29, 2023. (Flash90)

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Florida’s Todd Golden becomes first Jewish coach to win March Madness since 1988

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Harlem-based Ethiopian-Israeli chef Beejhy Barhany dishes on her new cookbook

A view of UJA-Federation of New York's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. (Screenshot from Google Maps)

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UJA-Federation of New York’s Midtown office building evacuated

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Iconic UWS Jewish grocery Zabar’s collaborates with Nordstrom

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Irmgard Furchner, convicted in 2022 of complicity in Nazi crimes, dies at 99

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Politics

Meeting with Netanyahu, Trump again floats proposal for US to take over Gaza

Demonstrators gather outside the Federal Courthouse in New York City to show support for Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and to demand his release from ICE detention on March 12, 2025. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

United States

In new letter, Mahmoud Khalil downplays campus antisemitism and accuses some students of ‘participating in the genocide’

U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Trump says US has begun direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program

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