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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

Asaf Elia-Shalev

Illustrative: People watch workers move the Adas Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in Washington, to a new location down the street, where it became part of the Capital Jewish Museum, on January 9, 2019, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
April 10, 2025, 2:02 am
US Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities
Widespread cuts are touted as cutting costs, but come two years after a Biden administration initiative described museums as a critical tool against the spread of antisemitism
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The Jewish Onliner home page. (Screenshot via JTA)
March 29, 2025, 9:11 pm
An inside look at Jewish Onliner, the anonymous website that got a Yale scholar suspended
A member of the faceless team using AI to expose ‘issues impacting the Jewish community’ answers questions about how the site picks its targets, why it’s not journalism, and how it’s funded
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: President Isaac Herzog delivers the keynote address on August 29, 2022, to mark the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress at the historic Stadtcasino in Basel, where Theodor Herzl convened the first congress which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
March 25, 2025, 4:36 pm
From far left to Haredi right, Jews question ethics of voting in World Zionist Congress
As Jewish voters across the globe help decide Israel’s future, diametrically opposed groups on the fringes are united in taking issue with the terms of participation
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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 North America / Getty Images via AFP)
March 21, 2025, 8:44 am
Three more NYC yeshivas to lose funding as secular education standards take effect
Parents at ultra-Orthodox schools in Brooklyn told to look elsewhere for their kids’ education, ahead of New York’s June 30 deadline for secular education mandate
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Feb. 25, 2025. (Pool via AP)
March 14, 2025, 5:12 am
Breaking with recent consensus, Trump makes ‘anti-Semitism’ hyphenated again
White House doesn’t explain return to old policy, which opponents argue ‘creates a racial category of ‘Semitism’; ADL retorts that spelling less important than policy
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Zionist Jews from around the world can vote in the 2025 World Zionist Congress election. (Getty Images, via JTA)
March 10, 2025, 9:30 pm
These are the 21 slates vying for US Jews’ vote for the 39th World Zionist Congress
First post-Oct. 7 election features new lists committed to fighting campus anti-Israel activity, as well as Reform, Orthodox mainstays, and satellites of Israeli political parties
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Anti-government protesters wave Israeli and American flags outside a Tel Aviv hotel hosting members of the 38th Zionist Congress, April 22, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 10, 2025, 9:29 pm
World Zionist Congress polls open in US, with ‘soul of the State of Israel’ at stake
American Jews will select 173 candidates from 21 lists, ranging from right-wing Orthodox to anti-Netanyahu Israeli expats, to serve in 39th session of body founded by Herzl in 1897
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
FILE - Kanye West, known as Ye, watches the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, on March 11, 2022(AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
March 8, 2025, 7:49 am
Adidas sells last Kanye West shoes, donates some proceeds to charity
Beneficiaries includes causes fighting discrimination, antisemitism; German sports apparel company cut ties with rapper, now known as Ye, after his antisemitic online rant in 2022
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
An Iranian Jewish man prays at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue in the city of Yazd, 420 miles south of capital Tehran, Iran, November 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
March 7, 2025, 9:04 pm
Trump’s refugee ban is keeping 700 persecuted Iranian Jews out of the US
The US president has signed an order indefinitely halting the admission of refugees – including applicants for a special program for members of religious minority groups in Iran
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
An entry to the Skirball campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, California, October 15, 2012. (Kiddo27/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-4.0)
February 28, 2025, 1:35 pm
Hebrew Union College sells part of LA campus, in Reform flagship’s latest downsizing
Sale to neighboring University of Southern California, an academic partner since 1972, follows move to smaller facility in Manhattan and end of rabbinical program in Cincinnati
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox man crosses a street in a Jewish neighborhood in Williamsburg Brooklyn in New York City on April 24, 2019 (Johannes EISELE / AFP)
February 20, 2025, 12:42 am
2 NYC yeshivas are not meeting standards and must effectively close, state rules
Schools face most significant consequences to date in ongoing fight between Haredi institutions and education officials over minimum requirements for subjects like English and math
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: The Oklahoma Supreme Court is pictured in the state Capitol building in Oklahoma City, May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
February 17, 2025, 4:08 am
A US Supreme Court case could pave the way for publicly funded Jewish day schools
A ruling on religious charter schools in Oklahoma could make education a lot cheaper for many American Orthodox Jews while opening up new options across the religious spectrum
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
An illustrative image of a person looking at Wikipedia on their phone. (iStock/pressureUA)
February 1, 2025, 1:23 am
Edit wars over Israel spur rare ban of 8 Wikipedia editors — from both sides
Case emerged amid allegations of widespread anti-Israel bias that have cast doubt on the open-source encyclopedia’s credibility and dovetailed with claims it has a liberal skew
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to speak at an Earthshot Prize Innovation Camp in London, Britain, June 27, 2024. (AP/Kin Cheung, File)
January 24, 2025, 10:08 am
Michael Bloomberg steps in again to fund UN climate body in response to Trump moves
In repeat of 2017, billionaire former mayor of New York vows support for Framework Convention on Climate Change after new US president cuts funding, pulls out of Paris accords
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Activists with the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow hold a rally demanding a ceasefire in Gaza in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building on October 18, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
January 20, 2025, 1:08 am
US attorney uses ‘lawfare’ to force $700K settlement from Jewish Voice for Peace
David Abrams makes a living off hunting alleged fraud by groups critical of Israel; in JVP’s case, the group allegedly misrepresented itself when applying for COVID relief funds
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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