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The pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA was erected after the Oct. 7. 2023 attacks in Israel. (Jacob Gurvis)
February 25, 2026, 10:30 am
Trump files lawsuit against LA university, saying it failed to protect Jewish employees
The lawsuit, filed on the day of Trump’s State of the Union address, follows years of federal scrutiny and earlier campus legal battles
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, also known as the Ramchal, is depicted in a wall painting in Acre, Israel. (Yuval Y/Wikimedia Commons)
February 19, 2026, 3:44 pm
Letter by famed 18th-century rabbi fetches £296k at auction
The Moshe Chaim Luzzatto letter was sold by the Jewish Theological Seminary during a financial crisis, a move that drew criticism from scholars and rare-book experts
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
October 1, 2025, 9:56 am
Elon Musk calls ADL a ‘hate group’ that ‘hates Christians’
The billionaire’s latest attack follows the ADL’s documentation of an extremist theology and movement known as Christian Identity
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
University of California, Los Angeles. Photo: Wikipedia
July 30, 2025, 9:59 am
UCLA settles antisemitism lawsuit with £4.6M payout, including donations to Jewish groups
The settlement is the largest of its kind in a campus antisemitism case and includes funding for Hillel, the ADL and others
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Friends of the IDF.
July 25, 2025, 12:19 pm
Leaders resign from Friends of the IDF amid internal reckoning
The leadership change comes after donors retreated amid concerns from within the group supporting Israeli soldiers
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Harvard Yard (Wikipedia/Mancala)
July 23, 2025, 10:53 am
Judge in Trump-Harvard case questions tie between antisemitism allegations and federal funding cuts
Judge Allison Burroughs, who noted in court that she is Jewish, said she would aim to rule quickly in the case
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
IDF Soldiers
July 10, 2025, 10:08 am
Friends of the IDF in crisis after internal report alleges financial abuse and toxic culture
The U.S.-based charity has raised hundreds of millions by promising to meet the emergency needs of Israeli soldiers during the war in Gaza
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Kanye West
March 10, 2025, 5:31 pm
Adidas just sold off its final Yeezy shoe. Some of the proceeds are going to fight antisemitism
The German sportswear giant that broke ties with Ye over his antisemitism is donating 250 billion euros it made from liquidating the rapper’s sneaker line
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Israeli content creator Max Veifer and one of the nurses from Bankstown Hospital, Sarah Abu Lebdeh. (Screenshot)
February 26, 2025, 4:44 pm
Australian nurse charged over viral video threatening Israeli patients
Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, who worked at Bankstown Hospital, has already been fired and barred from practicing.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Antisemitic graffiti painted in a fenced-off area of Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle, Washington, on April 16, 2023. (Courtesy of Rabbi Daniel Weiner)
January 15, 2025, 11:04 am
Nearly half the globe has ‘elevated levels’ of antisemitic beliefs, ADL survey finds
About 46% of the global adult population is projected to harbor heightened levels of antisemitic views
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
The move by Twitch, an Amazon-owned platform with more than 240 million active users, comes after increased scrutiny.
November 20, 2024, 1:19 pm
Platform Twitch bans word ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for spreading hate toward Jews
The move comes following mounting complaints of antisemitism on the platform favored by video gamers
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandment is up for auction with Sotheby's. (Sotheby's)
November 20, 2024, 10:01 am
1,500-year-old inscription of the Ten Commandments up for auction
The Samaritan tablet will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s next month
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Israeli police evict Jewish settlers at the West Bank settlement of Netiv Avot
November 19, 2024, 9:14 am
Biden sanctions Israeli settler group, in move Trump could reverse
State Department cited Amana as “the largest organisation involved in settlement and illegal outpost development in the West Bank"
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Jewish Museum in San Francisco
November 18, 2024, 12:30 pm
San Francisco’s Jewish museum to close for at least one year
The museum has been running multimillion deficits for at least two years, according to the most recent financial disclosures available
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Claude Monet's pastel on paper, "Bord de Mer,” dated about 1865 and which was stolen from the Parlagi family in 1940 by the Nazis in Austria, is seen after its recovery by the FBI’s Art Crime Team. (FBI).
October 14, 2024, 11:47 am
Family recovers Monet pastel generations after Nazi looting
An unsuspecting New Orleans couple who bought the artwork in 2019 voluntarily relinquished it after learning of its history
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
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