2+ hour, 5+ min ago  (534+ words) (JTA) " Administrators at Rutgers University have canceled a commencement speaker scheduled for next week, citing an "inflammatory claim" the speaker tweeted about Israel. Rami Elghandour, a Rutgers alumnus and a producer of an Oscar-nominated docudrama about a Palestinian girl who…...

13+ hour, 3+ min ago  (578+ words) (JTA) " The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington is calling on a local school district in Maryland to adopt a "zero tolerance policy" toward antisemitism following what it described as a recent wave of anti-Jewish incidents across its schools....

17+ hour, 5+ min ago  (595+ words) By Robert Zaretsky May 6, 2026 By mid-2025, however, Bartov revised his stance in a second Times essay. As a scholar of genocide who has taught classes on the subject " including at Brown University, where he is currently based " for a quarter of…...

17+ hour, 16+ min ago  (199+ words) Tidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don't know a word, just click on it and the translation appears. Listen to…...

17+ hour, 53+ min ago  (822+ words) By Menachem Z. Rosensaft (JTA) " When I learned that Holocaust deniers had infiltrated a New Hampshire legislative meeting and tried to insert their view into the state's Holocaust education efforts, I was personally outraged. My grandparents, my mother's first husband and…...

22+ hour, 16+ min ago  (496+ words) (JTA) " London's police force has created a new unit to protect Jews, in the latest effort to stem a wave of attacks and calm mounting anxiety in the city's Jewish communities. The new "Community Protection Team" will boast 100 members and…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (887+ words) (JTA) " Antisemitic incidents in the United States fell sharply in 2025 from record highs in the previous two years, but physical assaults, including deadly attacks, continued to rise, according to the Anti-Defamation League's annual audit. In 2025, the ADL recorded 6, 274 antisemitic incidents…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (947+ words) (JTA) " A bestselling author is facing a flurry of anger from fans after advance copies of her upcoming novel identified a character as Israeli "a move that her critics say advances "normalization" of a country they oppose. Rebecca "R. F." Kuang, the…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (333+ words) (JTA) " The man charged with firebombing a Boulder, Colorado, march for Israeli hostages in 2025 will plead guilty to killing one person and attempting to kill others in the incident, according to documents filed in the case over the weekend. Mohamed…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (391+ words) (JTA) " A disused London synagogue was the site of an arson attack early Tuesday, police said, adding to a string of incidents targeting Jews and Jewish sites in the city. The Metropolitan Police said its officers responded to a call…...