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Three simple rules for navigating a new season of protest against Israel
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (837+ words) Elliot Cosgrove May 12, 2026 Spring. The season of graduations and protests. If the settings of these incidents differ, one underlying question they raise remains the same: What are the ethics of protest? At what point does dissent deepen democratic life and…...
Middlebury College Hillel votes to rebrand, distancing from parent on Israel
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (912+ words) By Louis Keene May 11, 2026 The student leaders of the campus Hillel at a small liberal arts school in Vermont have voted to rename the student group, moving to distance it from an international organization they say is too pro-Israel. The…...
As anti-LGBTQ laws spread, these two Jewish nonprofits are funding moves to safer states
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (1003+ words) (JTA) " As anti-LGBTQ legislation proliferated across the United States in late 2024, leaders at two Jewish nonprofits began discussing the mounting crisis for LGBTQ Americans who no longer felt safe in their home states but lacked the financial means to leave....
At this interfaith calligraphy class, the lines between Jew and Muslim blur
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (1127+ words) By Simone Saidmehr May 10, 2026 "So'are you Middle Eastern?" I had just walked into the American Sephardi Federation office in lower Manhattan, where 20 Muslim and Jewish young people gather twice a month to learn Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy together. I was…...
Debating Zionism is good for Jews, actually
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (704+ words) A group of Jewish Theological Seminary students were furious with the chancellor's position on Jewish statehood. In protest, they draped flags around campus before graduation, which the administration removed before the ceremony. The year was 1948. The flags were Israeli. And…...
I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I'm glad it lives on there
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (781+ words) Peterson's address was a historian's invitation to every student and parent in the Ann Arbor stadium to recognize that the fight for Palestinian rights shares roots with our greatest movements for justice, including the struggle against antisemitism. The backlash, predictably,…...
An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (766+ words) Alanna E. Cooper May 8, 2026 But I'll also be listening with an analytical ear, attentive to what these speeches reveal about the institutions delivering them " especially in a season when the same fault lines keep opening over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and over…...
Israel's most dangerous war is with itself
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (1397+ words) Columnist Dan Perry May 7, 2026 My friend Rabbi Heshy Grossman recently invited me to Jerusalem to meet top Haredi rabbis. Unhappy with my critical writings about the Haredim, this well-meaning true believer hoped to jump-start fruitful dialogue. So I took the…...
British Greens battle antisemitism scandal as Jewish leader Zack Polanski targets historic gains in local elections
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (1673+ words) Green Party leader Zack Polanski (center) with party candidates and supporters after making a speech at the Church of Saint John The Evangelist in Cardiff, Wales, ahead of local elections, May 2, 2026. (Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images) By Shira…...
Maryland school district urged to adopt "zero-tolerance policy" on antisemitism amid wave of incidents
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (578+ words) (JTA) " The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington is calling on a local school district in Maryland to adopt a "zero tolerance policy" toward antisemitism following what it described as a recent wave of anti-Jewish incidents across its schools....