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‘Death to Israel’ scrawled on Northwestern University building during Passover

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Jewish students at Northwestern University awoke on the second day of Passover to a scourge of red paint across several university buildings with messages including “death to Israel” and “intifada now.”

In a message to...

Jewish family on way to Passover seder killed in NY plane crash

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — A Jewish family was killed Saturday when their private plane crashed en route to upstate New York to celebrate Passover.

Among those lost in Sunday’s crash were siblings Karenna Groff, 25, and Jared Groff, 26,...

Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil over antisemitism concerns, judge rules

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protest leader arrested by ICE at Columbia University, can be deported, a federal immigration judge ruled Friday.

The ruling by Jamee Comans, a Louisiana immigration judge, is the most significant development...

Mahmoud Khalil’s ‘otherwise lawful’ behavior undermines US policy against antisemitism, Marco Rubio says

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — In advance of a pivotal court hearing this week in the deportation case of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protest leader at Columbia University, a judge demanded that the State Department lay out its case against...

Plane carrying freed Israeli hostages and US lawmakers clipped at DC airport

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Two planes carrying members of Congress as well as the released Israeli hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel clipped wings on the taxiway at Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday.

The two American Airlines jets were...

Muslim prayer room at NYU vandalized with name of Jewish fraternity

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — The name of a Jewish fraternity was graffitied in a Muslim prayer room at New York University’s library last week, according to school officials. 

A student was visiting the prayer room in Bobst Library last...

In new letter, Mahmoud Khalil downplays campus antisemitism and accuses some students of ‘participating in the genocide’

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Mahmoud Kahlil accused Columbia University of creating a “manufactured public hysteria about antisemitism” and likened the school to a Nazi collaborationist government in a letter dictated from an ICE detention center.

He also claimed, without...

Netanyahu in Washington again to meet with Trump to discuss tariffs, Gaza

By BEN SALES

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew on Sunday to Washington, D.C., where he will meet with President Donald Trump, the second time the two men have gotten together since Trump took office about 10 weeks...

Texas bakery reportedly becomes first bagel shop to be named James Beard Award finalist

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — A bagel shop in Texas has been named a finalist for the 2025 James Beard Foundation Awards, reportedly making it the first purveyor of the classic Jewish food to be shortlisted for the coveted culinary...

Jews at Tufts are furious over ICE seizing a pro-Palestinian grad student. But they’re wary of joining protests for her.

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — For the last year and a half, Tufts Students for Israel has battled against criticism of Israel on the Boston-area campus. But on Thursday, the group took a stance of a different kind: It published...