(JTA) — Male students who violate the rules of a coed shabbaton at Yeshiva University will now be fined $150. The Office of Student Life at the flagship institution of Modern Orthodoxy instituted the fine for violations of the rules that the male students sign in an agreement before the start of the shabbaton, a…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of the Palestinian Authority police confirmed that it had resumed full security cooperation with Israel. Hzem Atallah told journalists in Ramallah on Wednesday that security coordination had resumed completely about two weeks ago after it was partially suspended in July by order of P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas. The decision to…
(JTA) — Calling Israeli children “Zionist terrorists in training” and “future child murderers and occupiers” does not constitute incitement to hate, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said. The Service decided Wednesday to not prosecute Abdoe Khoulani, a lawmaker in the city council of The Hague, on the basis of a criminal complaint filed against him over statements he…
(JTA) — Dozens of Jewish nonprofits and religious institutions are urging Congress to oppose efforts to weaken or repeal a law that prohibits tax-exempt nonprofits from supporting or opposing candidates for public office. A letter signed by 55 Jewish groups was sent Wednesday to the chairman and ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives…
(JTA) — A student group at McGill University admitted that it used anti-Semitic propaganda to prevent a Jewish candidate from being re-elected to the student government at the Montreal school. At a meeting last month of the General Assembly of the McGill’s Student Society, or SSMU, seven students were voted onto the board. But three…
(JTA) — A federal judge said a lawsuit filed in June by former and current Jewish San Francisco State University students did not establish that the university tolerates and encourages anti-Semitic activity, and told the lawyers to try again. Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco said Wednesday that the lawsuit…
(JTA) — A 70-year-old Jewish woman was hospitalized with a concussion after being attacked by an assailant who called her “Zyd,” Polish for “Jew.” The male attacker smashed her head into a brick wall while shouting “Zyd” during the attack on Saturday afternoon in London’s Stamford Hill neighborhood, which has a large Orthodox Jewish population,…
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…
