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JTA – The state of Arkansas has paid $500 it had promised to a Jewish doctor, after withholding the payment for months because of the doctor’s...
JTA — Months before a Miami-area mother persuaded a local school to restrict access to an Amanda Gorman poem, she was posting antisemitic memes on...
JTA — The mayor of a Missouri town has apologized for saying a local trash company is “not trying to Jew anybody” at a recent public meeting,...
JTA — Florida’s state Education Department rejected two new Holocaust-focused textbooks for classroom use while forcing at least one other...
JTA – “Oppenheimer,” the hotly anticipated Christopher Nolan biopic about the Jewish nuclear physicist who developed the atomic bomb, will...
JTA – The state of Arkansas is refusing to pay a Jewish doctor for a talk he delivered at a public university because he declined to promise not to...
JTA — Shows about the Holocaust and a notorious American antisemitic incident picked up several Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, as...
JTA — The pioneering linguist and left-wing activist Noam Chomsky, the longtime Bard College president Leon Botstein, the filmmaker Woody Allen, and...
JTA — After hate groups in his county on Florida’s East Coast projected antisemitic messages onto the Daytona International Speedway, the local...
JTA – Police have arrested a man, who allegedly espoused conspiracy theories about Jews, in connection with a March attack on a Chabad center in...
JTA — A Boston-area woman has been arrested and charged with leaving a series of paper swastikas outside the house of a Jewish lawyer who is...
JTA — In a move that shocked many, Fox News announced on Monday that it had “parted ways” with Tucker Carlson, the network’s most-watched...
JTA— A Seattle congregation that was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti the day before Holocaust Remembrance Day left up the message for more than...
JTA — Like many synagogues have done over time, Congregation Kol Ami in Seattle is partnering with local Israelis to celebrate Israel’s birthday...
JTA — Little more than a week after it dismissed allegations of antisemitism against one of its professors, George Washington University will face a...
JTA — A public high school in Florida has removed an illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary from its library. It is the second known...
JTA — George Washington University has cleared a professor of allegations from a federal civil rights complaint that she discriminated against...
JTA — The University of Florida has more Jewish students than any other public college in the United States — and earlier this month, one of them...
JTA — The president of Connecticut College has announced she will step down at the end of the semester, following weeks of student protests...
(JTA) — The official Twitter account of Michigan’s Republican Party posted an image comparing gun control to the Holocaust on Wednesday. Then,...
JTA — Responding to a recent rise in neo-Nazi activity, a Jewish lawmaker in Florida is trying to outlaw displays of “religious or ethnic...
JTA — A Holocaust-themed novel by bestselling author Jodi Picoult was among dozens of books removed from a South Florida school district library’s...
JTA – With seven nominations for his most personal film ever, this could have been Steven Spielberg’s biggest year at the Academy Awards. But the...
JTA — When students at Connecticut College learned that their president had been planning to attend a fundraiser at a historically racist and...
JTA — Rabbi Sharon Brous began a sermon at her Los Angeles synagogue last month with a content warning. “I have to say some things today that I...
JTA – The FBI coordinated with local authorities in mid-February to arrest a heavily armed man who had threatened on social media to kill all Jewish...
JTA – A Cleveland-area rabbi was sentenced to six months in prison on Monday for soliciting underage sex, capping a sad and shocking saga for the...
JTA – A Catholic high school in Miami forfeited its semifinal game in a state soccer tournament over the weekend, days after players fought in an...
JTA – A high school championship soccer game between a Miami Jewish day school and a local Catholic school ended with an ugly on-field brawl and at...
JTA – For days, students and police at Cleveland State University had been trying to figure out who stole a banner belonging to a campus Palestinian...
JTA — Years ago, the Israeli filmmaker Orit Fouks Rotem took a class led by director Eran Kolirin, best known as the maker of “The Band’s...
JTA – A US candidate for chair of the Michigan Republican Party who faced criticism after inviting a Messianic “rabbi” to offer a prayer for the...
JTA — A university in Oregon that fired a Jewish professor after he reported several incidents, including purported antisemitic remarks made by the...
JTA — An Ohio woman who alleged six years ago that she had been fired because she was an observant Jew has won $1.1 million in damages after a...
JTA — Within two weeks, a series of Bay Area billboards equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism were targeted by activists. In the first incident,...
JTA — Ohio’s department of education is investigating a homeschooling network that claims public schools are run by “Zionist scum,” teaches...
JTA — An event that took place at a Virginia university Thursday night to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day was scheduled to feature...
JTA — A quote by the Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was briefly removed from the walls of a Philadelphia-area high...
JTA — US House Representative George Santos, the Long Island Republican whose history of lies about his past included that he was a Jewish...
JTA – “The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama about his Jewish upbringing, had an expected strong haul of Oscar...
JTA — A newly hired dean of students for a Michigan middle school resigned after only nine school days on the job after receiving an anonymous...
JTA — George Washington University says it has opened an investigation into whether a psychology professor displayed antisemitic behavior in her...
(JTA) – When Amazon Prime released the first season of “Hunters” in 2020, it advertised its Nazi-hunting TV show as “Inspired By True...
JTA — Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater, fell in love with his Hebrew teacher and once encountered the owner of a brothel he frequented...
JTA — Were Jews the “OG slaves”? Can American slavery be compared to the Holocaust? And who gets the last word on Louis Farrakhan? These...
JTA — Once more for the record, Dave Chappelle: Jews don’t actually run Hollywood. But anyone paying attention to pop culture in 2022 saw a lot of...
JTA — As “The Daily Show” looks ahead to a future without host Trevor Noah, at least three Jewish comedians are waiting to take his place — at...
JTA — US Representative Lauren Boebert is aligned with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on many issues. Both are right-wing Republican members...
JTA – For months, prominent pro-Israel and right-wing US groups have pushed the narrative that the University of California-Berkeley’s law school...
JTA — On Monday, the board of Keller Independent School District in Texas introduced its evening prayer leader as “Rabbi Griffin.” A man wearing...