1+ week, 1+ day ago   (265+ words) The Trump administration hosted a historic gathering of leaders of major Hasidic communities on Thursday, drawing controversy because several of the rabbis are explicitly anti-Zionist or non-Zionist. Brokered in part by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), whose district includes large Hasidic…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (204+ words) The proposed rule would cover admissions, scholarships, athletics and other school programs but allow faith-based schools to continue to select students based on religious affiliation. The proposed rule would cover admissions, scholarships, athletics and other school programs but allow faith-based…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1022+ words) Synagogues and other targets could face greater risk if the Trump administration keeps withholding $87 million in federal counterterror funding from the state, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani warned on Tuesday. The mayor and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (195+ words) The Trump administration has revoked the U.S. visa of former Iraqi Finance Minister Taif Sami Mohammed Al Shakarchi after she was placed on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database, the U.S. State Department announced on Aug. 28. In 2022, Al Shakarchi received the State…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (261+ words) Two senior House Democrats wrote on Tuesday to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding information on the financing of the U.S.-led Board of Peace, which U.S. President Donald Trump chairs. Trump established the board as an international organization in January to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (543+ words) Columbia University, whose own antisemitism task force found that Jew-hatred on campus was “serious and pervasive,” has joined 35 other colleges and universities, including Brown University, in supporting Harvard College’s challenge to the Trump administration’s termination and withholding of federal research…...