Harvard president declines to testify at Senate panel on higher education “This would have been the chance for Harvard to emphasize its value as a research institution and to tell the committee and the country how it is addressing antisemitism,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) stated. May 19, 2025
Choosing sides in the battle over fighting antisemitism Rather than get behind Trump, the American Jewish Committee, left-wing rabbis and Democrats oppose reforms that would punish schools that discriminate against Jews. Jonathan S. Tobin May 9, 2025
Israeli colleges adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism The decision follows the Jewish state assuming the rotating presidency of the alliance. JNS Staff May 8, 2025
Send Barstool Jew-haters to Israel, not Auschwitz An incident at a bar owned by celebrity influencer Dave Portnoy says everything you need to know about contemporary antisemitism and the clueless responses to it. Jonathan S. Tobin May 6, 2025
Portnoy revokes Auschwitz offer to Temple student allegedly involved in antisemitic bar sign “It is a 180 from my convo with him,” said Dave Portnoy, owner of Barstool Sports. “Needless to say, his trip to Poland has been revoked.” JNS Staff May 6, 2025
Facing the ideological lies We’re being confronted by a paradigm of a new round of show trials, this time led by Jewish anti-Zionists. Yisrael Medad May 1, 2025
Yom Hashoah: It’s time to change how we look at antisemitism People are struggling to understand “how to recognize it, what causes it, what it says about our societies and the risks we all face, Jewish or not,” says historian Edna Friedberg. Jan Lee April 21, 2025
‘I sort of invented my version of the job,’ Rabbi Yosef Blau says, after 48 years at Yeshiva University The 86-year-old sat down with JNS for an extended conversation on the day before he and his wife made aliyah. Rikki Zagelbaum April 9, 2025
Sid Rosenberg’s success is rebuked by his alma mater At the same time, Kingsborough Community College has no Jewish representation in its senior leadership in a borough with an even higher percentage of Jews than New York City as a whole. Jeffrey Lax April 2, 2025
