Trump names 4 Orthodox rabbis among advisors of his new Religious Liberty Commission
Two Jewish activists at right-wing advocacy groups are also among the 26 advisors
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NYC mayoral candidate walks back ‘genocide’ accusation against Israel
Michael Blake said he used ‘wrong language,’ adding that ‘we want to be very clear that it was not the people of Israel that did this’
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Jewish mayor returns from Israel trip as City Council decides to fly Palestinian flag at City Hall
The flag-raising was announced on the same day that the city’s Jewish Mayor Brett Smiley returned from a trip to Israel.
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Marking Nakba Day is controversial in Israel. These Israelis and Palestinians did it together.
The event, marking the mass displacement of Palestinians upon Israel’s establishment, took on special resonance this year, participants said
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Charles Small, early exposer of Qatari influence, calls Trump taking plane gift ‘an insult to democracy’
In a Q&A, a scholar and activist who’s been criticizing Qatari donations since 2012 discusses the airplane gift and the pressure the federal government is putting on universities in the name of combating antisemitism
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Joe Rogan defends Ye’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song
'It kind of supports what he says, which is that there’s this concerted effort, if you talk about Jewish people, that they’re going to remove you from everything,' Rogan said.
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NYU withholds diploma of student who condemned ‘genocide’ and ‘atrocities currently happening in Palestine’ in graduation speech
Most pro-Palestinian demonstrations at campus graduations appear to have passed without incident
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Jewish activist Shabbos Kestenbaum settles antisemitism lawsuit with Harvard
Kestenbaum has been a vocal supporter of Trump’s campus crackdown, of which Harvard has been a primary focus
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Candace Owens says she was victim of death threats by man who ran ‘Real Jewish’ group chat
Owens said after she criticized a late leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement last September, her family 'endured a series of attacks led by deranged zionists'
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Zohran Mamdani acknowledges ‘pain and confusion’ over his decision not to co-sponsor Holocaust resolution this year
The Democratic Socialist mayoral candidate said his focus is on legislation and the campaign, not symbolic measures.
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Trump: ‘A lot of people are starving’ in Gaza
When asked whether Benjamin Netanyahu can free the remaining hostages held captive by Hamas, Trump said, 'I don’t know'
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