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Katrina Armstrong steps down as Columbia president after White House pressure over antisemitism

She is the second leader of Columbia to leave within the past year.

Katrinsa Armstrong, pictured in 2022. (Screenshot)

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These Modern Orthodox and observant Jews want to change their community’s conversation around the Gaza war

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How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print

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‘Resounding no’ to ‘strongly support’: JTA readers weigh in on Trump’s bid to deport Mahmoud Khalil

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American Jews must not give an inch on free speech — even when words hurt us

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Jordan Bardella, leader of the French far-right National Rally, speaks at an Israeli government conference in Jerusalem on March 27, 2025. (Screenshot)

Global

French far-right leader decries antisemitism and Islamism at contentious Israeli government conference

Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, speaks during an event in August 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

United States

After announcing LGBTQ club, Yeshiva U president says Pride values ‘antithetical’ to the school

Tufts University.

United States

Tufts international grad student detained by ICE in latest action targeting pro-Palestinian activist

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Israelis flock to Keith Siegel’s Pancake House for the former hostage’s signature hotcakes

People protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel

Israeli government increases politicians’ role in selecting judges, passing key piece of judicial overhaul

Israel

200,000 tourists a month are visiting the Nova massacre site in southern Israel

A portrait of Stef Wertheimer at the awarding of master craftman's certificates in Nazareth, Israel, 28 June 2013.

Obituaries

Stef Wertheimer, one of Israel’s richest men, dies at 98

Newly elected New York City Councilman Simcha Felder. (Screenshot)

Politics

Simcha Felder beats Heshy Tischler in lopsided NY City Council election

Religion

Nearly a quarter of Americans raised Jewish have left the religion, survey says

New York Jewish Week

New York

Where to find a Passover seder in NYC in 2025

New York

Here’s why hospitals ask you your religion — and why Jews shouldn’t be afraid to answer

New York

Central Park’s Wollman Rink, which the Trump Organization hopes to run again, was named for this Jewish family

Activists hold a banner during a demonstration organized by HIAS outside the U.S. Capitol on September 14, 2017.(Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Politics

Judge blocks Trump bid to suspend refugee funding, in legal victory for Jewish group HIAS

Culture

Disney reportedly hired extra security for Gal Gadot after Rachel Zegler’s ‘Free Palestine’ tweet

Global

Anti-Hamas protesters march in Gaza, in rare and risky show of dissent

United States

Trump can’t deport Columbia undergraduate pro-Palestinian activist, Jewish judge rules

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