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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 627

Yale University

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during an Israel Police Independence Day ceremony at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, April 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 24, 2025, 4:21 pm
An elite Jewish society at Yale fractures over its director’s embrace of Itamar Ben Gvir
As Shabtai, which says it promotes free speech, welcomes the far-right Israeli minister at off-campus events, critics in and outside of the group protest his extremist rhetoric
By Andrew Lapin
Anti-Israel protesters gather outside an event featuring National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir during his visit to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, on April 23, 2025. (Screen capture: CT Insider/YouTube)
April 24, 2025, 1:28 pm
Anti-Israel protesters hurl bottles, block car as Ben Gvir visits Yale group
Hundreds gather outside off-campus building as Jewish group hosts far-right minister, hours after university sanctions Yalies4Palestine over encampment; none hurt
By ToI Staff, Luke Tress and Agencies
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir meets with police in Miami, Florida, during a visit to the US, April 22, 2025. (Courtesy)
April 24, 2025, 3:42 am
Yale strips recognition from anti-Israel group after Ben Gvir protest encampment
Yalies4Palestine ‘flagrantly violated’ rules, Ivy League school says after protesters filmed blocking Jewish student who tried to walk through demonstration against far-right minister
By Luke Tress
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir outside a court hearing in Lod, April 15, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)
April 18, 2025, 5:48 am
On 1st US visit as minister; Ben Gvir to speak at Yale, NYC fundraiser for Chabad of Hebron
No meetings set with US officials or major Jewish groups; head of Yale-based Jewish society that extended invite says he admires far-right minister, who some groups plan to protest
By Andrew Lapin
This photo provided by Helyeh Doutaghi shows Helyeh Doutaghi, a Yale Law School scholar. (Helyeh Doutaghi via AP)
April 4, 2025, 9:37 am
Yale sacks legal scholar amid probe into ties to Palestinian terror fundraiser
Iranian national Helyeh Doutaghi believes she was fired due to criticism of Israel and war in Gaza, says university has not given evidence of link to Samidoun
By AP and ToI Staff
Rabbi Menachem Creditor speaking to his Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, Calif. (Courtesy of Creditor)
April 29, 2024, 10:56 pm
Prominent rabbi asks anti-Israel activists to stop singing his song at protests
Rabbi Menachem Creditor says ‘Olam Chesed Yibaneh’ has been misappropriated, after it was sung by members of the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace at Yale
By JTA
David Sasso, second from right, and musicians at the premiere of “Zakhor: A Requiem for October 7,” at the ANU Museum in Tel Aviv, on March 21, 2024. (Yoav Shapiro/courtesy)
April 3, 2024, 11:17 am
In Israel on a solidarity tour, Yale academic premieres October 7 art song cycle
Psychiatrist Dr. David Sasso’s ‘Zakhor: A Requiem for October 7,’ has a world debut performance in Tel Aviv as the final event in a Yale faculty trip in support of Israeli academics
By Gavriel Fiske
Stanford guard Benny Gealer (15) drives against Washington State guard Dylan Darling, right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Pullman, Washington, January 14, 2023. (AP Photo/ Dean Hare)
November 6, 2023, 12:52 am
20 Jewish college basketball players to watch in 2023-24
New crop of Israelis also gaining attention, as they struggle with war; USF’s Levy says it has been hard to stay on top of school and basketball with ‘everything going on at home’
By Greg Levinsky
Screen capture from video of brain specialist Zion Zibly. (Kan. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 1, 2023, 7:50 pm
Top brain specialist says he left Israel because ‘it is becoming undemocratic’
Zion Zibly says more senior medical staff have contacted him about moving abroad amid societal chasm over government’s judicial overhaul; health minister ‘deeply troubled’ by trend
By ToI Staff
Young children pull a sledge as they walk up a slope through snow in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 7, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP)
February 14, 2023, 9:20 pm
US study flags possible war crime as Russia holds thousands of Ukrainian children
In possible violation of Geneva Convention, at least 6,000 children as young as 4 months said taken to 43 camps across Russia to receive ‘patriotic and military-related education’
By AFP
The Bolton family (left to right): Carol, Matilde, John, Judy, and Harold, circa 1966. (courtesy, Judy Bolton-Fasman)
October 10, 2021, 2:02 am
Author boldly goes against her dead father’s wishes to uncover his true identity
In her new memoir, Judy Bolton-Fasman investigates lifelong questions on the strange union between her assimilated American dad and her much-younger mom, a volatile Cuban refugee
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Donald Kagan in 2013 (YouTube screenshot)
August 11, 2021, 7:32 pm
Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89
Jewish scholar who focused on ancient Greece said he was inspired by the ‘remarkable assumption that the human being is not trivial’
By Hillel Italie
Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian marchers in New York, Thursday, on May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
June 29, 2021, 11:24 pm
Yale student council approves statement accusing Israel of ‘genocide’
Two campus Jewish groups condemn resolution as having ‘antisemitic overtones’
By Ron Kampeas
A 1928 mugshot of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a Jewish American mobster, with significant influence within the Mafia and National Crime Syndicate. (Courtesy Yale University Press)
April 21, 2021, 4:33 am
How Jewish mobster Bugsy Siegel’s gamble on Vegas paid off after his murder
The movie star-handsome member of the infamous Murder, Inc. envisioned a gambling oasis in the desert, says a new book in Yale’s Jewish Lives series
By Rich Tenorio
Yale University campus (CC BY-Poldavo/Flickr)
April 7, 2021, 8:02 am
Yale to offer beginner Yiddish courses to fulfill language requirements
Studies, which thus far focused on translation and research, likely to move into more advanced spoken and written language courses
By Shira Hanau
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