I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
The university should have anticipated Tuesday night's chaos — but security personnel were nowhere to be found
The university should have anticipated Tuesday night's chaos — but security personnel were nowhere to be found
In April 2022, Dion Marsh perpetrated a series of attacks against Orthodox Jews in and around Lakewood, a central New Jersey city and hub of Orthodox Jewish life
The Israeli movie star is being harshly criticized for ignoring the Palestinian experience.
Last week's violent killings in Israel and the West Bank echo events from decades ago
This week, Jews around the world will observe the second Yom Kippur of the Covid era. Despite the uncertainty of the never-ending pandemic, it remains a time for taking stock of the year that was and holding out hope for better times ahead. For far too many, 5781 was a year defined by too many…
While far too much in the latest escalation between Israel and Gaza militants is tragically familiar, the new and in many ways most frightening aspect is the internal Arab-Jewish violence plaguing Israel’s so-called mixed cities that many have worried could spiral into a civil war. Arab rioters have torched synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses. Mobs of…
On Friday, an 18-year-old Chechen immigrant beheaded a history teacher just outside his school near Paris for the crime of showing his class caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in a course about freedom of expression. Just two weeks ago, after two people were stabbed in a different terrorist incident, President Macron gave a long-anticipated, lengthy…
On April 15th, in Berkeley, we saw an increasingly familiar scene – violence at a political demonstration. At a “Patriots Day” rally, pro-Trump demonstrators, many of them self avowed fascists and Nazis, violently clashed with anti-fascist protestors (commonly referred to as “antifa”). Nazis were punched, Antifa members were punched, and less fringe commentators from each side…