New York City Mayor Eric Adams said city officials are investigating a “vile show of antisemitism” in which students at a high school in Queens reportedly rioted after learning a teacher attended a pro-Israel rally. The incident shut down Hillcrest High School in Jamaica Hills, Queens, for two hours on …
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JERUSALEM — The chairman of the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, whose mandate is to use the example of the systematic genocide of millions of Jews by the Nazis in World War II as a teaching point to prevent such mass atrocities from happening again, believes that …
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A Democratic senator in Pennsylvania and his likely GOP challenger both blasted UPenn’s president for her response to antisemitism on campus. Republican candidate Dave McCormick, a former hedge fund executive, West Point graduate, Gulf War combat veteran and Treasury Department official in former President George W. Bush’s administration, called on …
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The Christian faith of early 20th-century Irish author C.S. Lewis is enjoying a rebirth right now as American culture, and the wider Western world, appear to have lost a sense of right and wrong. Credit the recent rediscovery of the author’s writings on religion, culture and morality, including “A Christmas …
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The New York Times faced intense criticism throughout the final months of 2023 over its coverage of the Israel-Gaza war following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack. The Times began drawing ire as the horror unfolded in southern Israel on Oct. 7, immediately portraying Palestinians as the victims with the …
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The United Kingdom’s government and police urged organizers of a planned anti-Israel protest to cancel the event following this week’s deadly synagogue attack, saying demonstrators should “respect the grief of British Jews.” “I know that planned protests over the weekend, just a few days before the anniversary of the October …
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A group of Harvard faculty members say many students at the Ivy League university are skipping class, skimming or ignoring reading assignments, avoiding challenging discussions, and still graduating thanks to grade inflation. The New York Times reported Monday on findings released by the Classroom Social Compact Committee, a group of …
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On this, the second anniversary of the massacre in Israel following the invasionfrom Gaza by Hamas and other terrorists, all commentaries about that day of horrors, should begin by recalling the specifics of that attack — its immediate toll, the brutality of the mayhem and the extraordinary cruelty of killers …
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The suspect behind the deadly car and knife terror attack outside a synagogue in Manchester in theUnited Kingdomon Thursday has been identified by police as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent. Police said Al-Shamie entered the United Kingdom as a young child and became a citizen in …
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One of the two victims who died in the terrorist attack on a U.K. synagogue on Yom Kippur was accidentally shot by Manchester police as they rushed to subdue the attacker, British officials confirmed on Friday. Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed on Thursday after 35-year-old British …
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