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Pro-Palestinian protesters near Columbia University in Manhattan, February 2, 2024. (Luke Tress)

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

House investigation reveals a gap between university's public and private messaging about the incident at a campus protest.

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Prominent NYC synagogue reveals sexual assault allegation against its renowned late rabbi

Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer, who died in 1993, transformed B'nai Jeshurun on the Upper West Side.

Simchat Torah Across Brooklyn in 2021, in Grand Army Plaza. (Gili Getz)

After a year that divided many Jews, a Simchat Torah tradition of togetherness resumes in Brooklyn

More than 20 Jewish groups will join the annual event celebrating Simchat Torah despite their political differences.

Archdiocese blocks play about ex-Hasidic transgender rabbi and activist Abby Stein

By Jackie Hajdenberg October 22, 2024 9:42 pm

Jewish Park Slope Food Coop members file state complaint alleging antisemitic, anti-Israel harassment

By Jackie Hajdenberg October 22, 2024 10:51 am

A BDS discussion deeply divides the utopian Park Slope Food Coop — again

By Julia Gergely October 16, 2024 5:28 pm

Israeli professor Shai Davidai outside of Columbia University, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Columbia bars Shai Davidai, outspoken Israeli and pro-Israel professor, from campus

By Luke Tress October 16, 2024 4:38 pm

NYPD hate crimes unit is investigating alleged assault on pro-Israel leader

By Ron Kampeas October 10, 2024 3:21 pm

Rabbi Katja Vehlow in her office at Fordham University, Sept. 13, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Meet the first campus rabbi in the 183-year history of Fordham, one of NYC’s largest Catholic universities

By Luke Tress October 10, 2024 9:33 am

Columbia pro-Palestinian group endorses violence and walks back apology for student who said ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’

By Luke Tress October 8, 2024 5:01 pm

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