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Example, we spoke about the tea party panel last yesterday. I dont know how many people were there for that, but you already see that a lot of those push button issues that fomented that anger within the tea party were issues that are now being coopted by the Establishment Republican Party, you know . Fiscal responsibility, school choice, issues like that. But now were going to see that the major parties are going to start to adopt it and so are the candidates. Theyre going to adapt a portion of...

Antisemitism is ongoing throughout US colleges as Jewish students gear up for the Passover holiday.

Passover, which takes place from April 22 to April 30 this year, is a deeply important holiday in the Jewish faith as it remembers the Hebrew people’s liberation from slavery in Egypt. This eight-day-long celebration involves many traditions and is recognized most for Seder, a meal at the beginning of the holiday marked by a...

Leon Cooperman and Robert Kraft are pausing their flow of cash to Columbia as it is rocked by anti-Israel protests.

(New York Jewish Week) — Every Jewish community worth its salt has a Jewish community center, but few have had the cultural impact of New York’s 92nd Street Y.

NYU said it had reviewed over 70 more conduct cases “related to current concerns” — adding to the 90 student conduct cases the university had initially investigated in November — in an update on the university’s website yesterday. In the update, signed by NYU president Linda Mills and vice president for university life Jason Pina,...

Amid rising on-campus antisemitism since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, Harvard University has reportedly instructed a Jewish student group to remove their menorah each night following its lighting, citing concerns over potential vandalism and its negative impact on the university’s image.

NYU has reviewed more than 90 student conduct cases “related to current concerns” since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, according to a Nov. 30 email to students from university president Linda Mills. Mills said multiple students have faced disciplinary action, including “significant suspensions.” The email, also signed by Senior Vice President for University Life...

Around 100 students gathered by the Garibaldi statue in Washington Square Park for a pro-Palestinian demonstration Wednesday, calling on NYU to shut down its study abroad site in Tel Aviv and demand a permanent cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. The university has repeatedly rejected calls to close the Tel Aviv program on the grounds that...

The war in Gaza has shifted something in the psyche of New York — at workplaces and in restaurants, on university campuses and in playgrounds, over Instagram and along lampposts.