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Rabbi Daniel Kaiman (Courtesy via JTA)
April 9, 2026, 1:10 am
Jewish families and a rabbi ask to join lawsuit to block Oklahoma Jewish charter school
Many local Jews, opposed to what would be country’s first such institution, claim school board can’t be trusted to vigorously defend state’s secular education laws
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Protestors gather outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse, where Harvard University appeared to challenge $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration, July 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
March 24, 2026, 9:53 am
US launches more probes into Harvard for using race-based preferences in admissions
Trump’s administration sued Harvard last week to recoup billions in government grants over allegedly failing to protect Jewish students
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A counter-demonstrator wears an Israeli flag while carrying an American flag near a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus on April 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
March 13, 2026, 4:15 pm
Some – but not all – US colleges that worked with Trump receive higher marks from ADL
Columbia, Brown and UCLA are among the schools whose grades improved on the watchdog’s annual campus antisemitism report card after falling in line to preserve federal funding
By Andrew Lapin
The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into more than 75 languages. (John Halpern via JTA)
February 12, 2026, 9:51 pm
New law could make Anne Frank and ‘Night’ mandatory reading for Texas public schools
A proposed first-of-its-kind state-required reading list recognizes the importance of Holocaust education amid continuing tensions over who controls what students read
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Jewish students at El Camino Real Charter High School walk out to protesting antisemitic incidents at the Los Angeles school on February 27, 2024. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images via JTA)
September 4, 2025, 9:40 pm
Clock ticking on bill to make California 1st state with antisemitism watchdog in schools
A new law could set a template for other US states to follow and an example on how to draft such legislation without restricting free speech — if lawmakers pass it by Sept.12
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Students and community members hold an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rally at the encampment at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 29, 2024. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)
July 31, 2025, 4:26 am
Brown reaches deal with Trump administration, agrees to several steps against antisemitism
Ivy League university to again receive federal funds as part of agreement that will see US government end 3 investigations into alleged antisemitism and racial bias at the school
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Women pushing strollers walk past the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/ Getty Images via AFP)
May 25, 2025, 5:06 pm
School vouchers would expand across US under federal proposal cheered by Orthodox groups
Trump’s tax and spending cut bill currently offers $5,000 per student to attend Jewish schools and yeshivas as the initiative moves closer to implementation than ever before
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
University of Pennsylvania signage is seen in Philadelphia, May 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
May 9, 2025, 6:20 am
US says it is probing foreign donations at University of Pennsylvania
Education Department says institution has 30 days to provide information on tax records dating back to 2017, details on agreements with foreign governments
By Kanishka Singh
Anti-Israel demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common to protest Harvard's stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and show support for the Palestinian people, outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 25, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)
May 6, 2025, 4:01 am
US administration says no new grants for Harvard until White House demands addressed
Education Department official accuses university of ‘serious failures’ in four areas, including antisemitism, after head of school acknowledged ‘kernel of truth’ to criticism on matter
By AP and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order as young people hold up copies of the executive order at an education event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 20, 2025. (AP/Ben Curtis)
March 21, 2025, 5:52 am
Trump signs executive order to dismantle US Education Department
Order calls for US secretary of education to ‘take all necessary steps to facilitate’ the department’s closure, though move will likely require congressional backing
By Collin Binkley and CHRIS MEGERIAN
President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of education, Linda McMahon, testifies during her Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC on February 13, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
March 12, 2025, 11:41 pm
Trump guts Department of Education, slashing office handling antisemitism complaints
Education Department’s civil rights office opened dozens of Israel-related civil rights investigations since Oct. 7, provided recourse for Jewish, pro-Israel students on campus
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Linda McMahon, US President Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of education, testifies during her Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on February 13, 2025, in Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)
February 14, 2025, 6:46 am
Trump’s education secretary pick vows to fight antisemitism, but offers few specifics
Asked about campus antisemitism amid anti-Israel demonstrations, Linda McMahon says protesting is protected speech but ‘activities that are actually endangering students’ are not
By Andrew Lapin
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions the witnesses during a Senate Judiciary committee hearing on fentanyl, and the need for permanent class scheduling, on Capitol Hill, Februart 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
February 13, 2025, 1:35 pm
Ted Cruz believes a grant to study Hebrew is ‘woke DEI’
The study of differences between Hebrew and English was flagged in a new database, as the GOP seeks to justify cuts to federal research funding and diversity programs under Trump
By Andrew Lapin
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally on the Columbia University campus in New York City to mark a year since the Hamas terror group's onslaught on southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, October 7, 2024 (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)
February 4, 2025, 11:06 am
Trump administration opens antisemitism probes into 5 colleges, including Columbia
US Department of Education investigating Columbia, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, University of Minnesota, and Portland State University, says it’s putting all schools ‘on notice’
By AP and ToI Staff
Donald Trump speaks before prominent Jewish donors at an event titled 'Fighting Anti-Semitism in America' at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill on September 19, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images/ AFP)
December 5, 2024, 1:14 am
Trump gears up to deliver on promise to curb anti-Israel campus protests
The incoming president has promised to defeat the ‘radical revolution,’ throw activists who aren’t US citizens out of the country, and slash funding for campuses that allow them
By Andrew Lapin
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