Tag Archives: U.S. News
Harvard professor with history of anti-Israel bias elected to Pulitzer Prize Board
The Pulitzer Prize Board is facing scrutiny following the election of Vijay Iyer, a composer, pianist and professor at Harvard University with a documented history of anti-Israel bias and activism.A Jan. Read more » »
Jewish war hero laid to rest in South Carolina 82 years after deadly mission over China
A Jewish American fighter pilot shot down over China in World War II was finally laid to rest on American soil last week, with dirt from Israel placed over his coffin.Lt. Morton Sher, who flew with the famed Flying Tigers, was buried on Sunday in a cemetery in Greenville, S.C. Read more » »
Jewish groups praise Trump’s designation of Maduro-linked cartel as terror org
Jewish groups praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to designate a criminal network, which is tied to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, as a terror organization.Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, stated on Nov. Read more » »
‘Thoughts of security are always with us,’ Pittsburgh rabbi says seven years after Tree of Life attack
The seventh anniversary of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, drew widespread reflections from political and Jewish leaders. Read more » »
Jewish groups grateful, pensive after living hostages freed from Gaza
U.S. Jewish organizations issued statements expressing gratitude for the liberated living hostages on Monday morning, while also noting that Hamas has yet to return remains of people whom it murdered and that more work remains to ensure that the terror group can never again repeat an attack like Oct. 7. Read more » »
Fill key State Department roles, Jewish groups tell Senate leaders
The Jewish Federations of North America and Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations led 13 other Jewish groups in a letter to Senate leaders on Tuesday, asking the upper chamber to confirm Trump administration nominees for two key U.S. State Department positions.The groups asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D. Read more » »
UCLA reportedly raked in millions of federal dollars for diversity, anti-Israel programs
The University of California, Los Angeles has used millions of tax dollars to fund its diversity, equity and inclusion programs and to support faculty members who have made “radical” anti-Israel comments, according to an Aug. 13 report from the nonprofit Open the Books. Read more » »
House passes ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ budget on Thursday in a party-line vote.U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the bill would “set the stage for the coming golden age” under U.S. President Donald Trump. Read more » »
Wikipedia citing anti-Israel group ‘outrageous, not surprising,’ say nonprofits the site shuns
The widely-used online encyclopedia Wikipedia deems the Anti-Defamation League and NGO Monitor to be “generally unreliable” sources to cite when discussing Israel and the Palestinians, but it maintains that an organization with a documented history of antisemitism, including lauding the Oct. Read more » »
At NYC mayor primary debate, Cuomo says he’d visit Israel, which Mamdani won’t say is ‘Jewish state’
With five minutes to spare in the two-hour New York City Democratic mayoral primary debate, which NBC carried on Wednesday night, the candidates were asked what their first foreign trip would be as mayor. Read more » »
