Around 20 young people held a rally on Tuesday outside the New York headquarters of Camp Ramah, the Conservative movement’s summer camp system, to protest what they saw as the camp’s inadequate discussions of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. The protest and teach-in was organized by IfNotNow, a left-wing Jewish activist group that has started…
Four major Jewish foundations have signed onto a new effort requiring recipients of their donations to take certain steps to prevent sexual abuse of children participating in their programs. The new effort, called the Child Safety Pledge, is an initiative of Jumpstart Labs, a Jewish philanthropy think tank. Signatories include the Samuel Bronfman Foundation, the…
Israel’s former ambassador to the United States has demanded that Princeton University’s Hillel fire its executive director after they cancelled a speech by the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister under pressure from left-wing students. In an interview with the Times of Israel, Michael Oren, who was born in New Jersey and earned his M.A. and Ph.D….
Right-wing Israeli and American politicians and activists are launching a new initiative that they say will “shift the paradigm” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The idea behind the Israel Victory Project, first reported by The Jerusalem Post, is to to adopt policy that “calls for an end to the continuously futile ‘peace process,’” organizers stated. “The…
Barry Trachtenberg, director of Wake Forest College’s Jewish studies program, wanted members of Congress to know that statements equating Israel’s actions to Nazi Germany’s are not necessarily anti-Semitic. “In fact,” he told House Judiciary Committee members, “comparisons of foreign leaders and countries to Nazism are made regularly.” The topic at hand during a Tuesday meeting…
White nationalist Richard Spencer has spent the last several months ramping up a campus tour — but is apparently still struggling with some basic financial logistics. In the leadup to his recent speech at Florida University, Spencer and his white nationalist think tank paid for their venue space with a check for some $10,000 —…
Seven activists from the organization Jewish Voice for Peace were arrested Wednesday evening after refusing to leave the lobby of the Anti-Defamation League’s headquarters in New York. The activists, who ranged in age from 24 to 72, were singing and chanting in the lobby. JVP had coordinated multiple protests against the ADL across the country….
(JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish high school on Long Island, New York, was evacuated after receiving a bomb threat. The bomb threat was faxed on Wednesday afternoon to the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, school leaders said in a letter to the school community posted on its Facebook page. The message said…
The latest Call of Duty video game, centered on World War II, barely mentions the Holocaust or Jews, Mashable reported. The only reference to the Holocaust is during a 38-second cutscene in which the narrator talks about seeing things that “stayed with me forever.” “I thought I knew what cruelty was; I didn’t know anything,”…
The Anti-Defamation League called Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s comments about the Sutherland Springs shootings “offensive” and “insensitive,” Chron reported Wednesday. The governor came under fire after downplaying the shooting, which killed 26 people, in the context of Adolph Hitler and other historical mass murders. “Look at what happened with Hitler during the horrific events during…
Sebastian Gorka, the former Trump administration counterterrorism adviser who has been repeatedly criticized for his ties to far-right Hungarian groups, has been hired by Fox News, host Sean Hannity said on his radio show Wednesday. The news was first broken by researchers for the left-wing research group Media Matters, who reported that Gorka would be…
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