
Marie-Rose Sheinerman is a news intern at the Forward. Contact her at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @RoseSheinerman.
Marie-Rose Sheinerman is a news intern at the Forward. Contact her at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @RoseSheinerman.
Just days after he was elected as Student Senate President at Florida State University last summer, Ahmad Daraldik’s past anti-Israel online posts began to circulate among groups of FSU students: a high school website that compared Israel’s actions toward Palestinians to the Holocaust, a Facebook post from when he was 12 years-old calling an Israeli…
The ADL linked their call to Carlson’s promotion of the antisemitic ‘replacement’ conspiracy theory
Jewish groups and leaders took to social media following the Derek Chauvin verdict with expressions of relief, joy — and calls for systemic change in the wake of the trial. “Thank God justice has been served in this case,” Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah, a rabbinic organization for human rights, tweeted. “And there’s…
Last weekend, one Orthodox synagogue in Atlanta launched a new opportunity for congregants. While Congregation Beth Jacob had been holding socially distanced and masked in-person prayer services for months, for those members who have been fully vaccinated, there would now be a chance to join a non-distanced, non-masked minyan. The synagogue is not requiring a…
Two newly found asteroids will be named after an Israeli student at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, according to a press release from the university. Aseel Nama, an undergraduate student in Technion’s biomedical engineering department, participated in a NASA-led month-long asteroid hunting campaign, a competition where teams of “citizen scientists” can enter and parse astronomical…
Over two decades, Birthright Israel delivered more than 750,000 free-of-charge trips to young Jews, but amid the COVID-19 pandemic, like so many organizations, its programming came to halt. More than a year of inactivity and cancellations later, the group is now beginning to think about what a return to normalcy might look like. For Birthright,…
As the University of Illinois faces accusations of antisemitism, the campus’s Chabad house has partnered with the university to offer students Jewish-affiliated housing starting next fall, according to the organization’s rabbi. Last July, Illini Chabad purchased a 27,000-square-foot building in the center of campus, originally built as a fraternity house. The bottom two floors of…
When Yale University announced last summer that the 2020-21 academic year would be mostly remote and with heavy restrictions for the fraction of students permitted on campus, Isabel Kalb decided to postpone her first year of college. “I didn’t want to lose my freshman year to the pandemic,” explained Kalb, 19. But after spending the…
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