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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 343

Cathryn J. Prince

Cathryn J. Prince

Reporter at The Times of Israel
Demonstrators lock arms as law enforcement officers move them down Park Avenue away from the University of Arizona campus, May 10, 2024, in Tucson, Arizona. (Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
August 25, 2024, 1:26 am
Uniting as the Student Intifada, anti-Israel groups plan to further disrupt US campuses
Condoning violence and vocal in their anti-West and anti-capitalist views, the protesters are preparing to sow more chaos this year as experts warn of intolerance for other views
By Cathryn J. Prince
Eyal Feldman will swim across Lake Skaneateles in Upstate New York to raise money for Israelis orphaned by the October 7 Hamas atrocities. (Courtesy)
August 15, 2024, 1:40 pm
US-Israeli maker of Boy Butter lubricant attempts record-length swim for Oct. 7 charity
On August 17, Eyal Feldman will paddle 16 miles nonstop across upstate New York’s Skaneateles Lake to benefit orphans in Israel who lost their parents in the Hamas onslaught
By Cathryn J. Prince
Red Tent Fund founder Allison Tombros Korman. (Courtesy of the Red Tent Fund)
August 12, 2024, 2:04 am
Shunned for her stance on Israel, a Jewish US abortion activist starts her own fund
Allison Tombros Korman launches the Red Tent Fund in response to what she calls a movement steeped in antisemitism amid a one-sided conversation about Gaza that isolates many Jews
By Cathryn J. Prince
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators gather on the UCLA campus, after nighttime clashes between pro-Palestinian and counterprotest groups, in Los Angeles, May 1, 2024. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
August 7, 2024, 4:03 pm
Ahead of school year, US Jews skeptical campuses can prevent repeat of hostilities
Many Jewish students say they feel targeted by anti-Israel activists who’ve created a poisonous atmosphere. But with some schools negotiating with protesters, where is the deterrence?
By Cathryn J. Prince
Rabbi Meir Muller, right, and Prof. Devin Randolph, left, teach a new antisemitism awareness course at South Carolina State University, in Orangeburg, spring of 2024. (Courtesy of Muller)
August 6, 2024, 1:51 am
In time for a potentially turbulent school year, new course focuses on Black-Jewish ties
Even as some universities prepare for protests against the war on Hamas, rabbi and prof create semester-long class at historically Black schools on the communities’ cooperation
By Cathryn J. Prince
Myra Sack and Matt Goldstein holding Havi Lev Goldstein. (Courtesy)
August 2, 2024, 4:22 pm
Their daughter’s death from Tay-Sachs at age 2 transformed this family’s view of grief
In her new memoir, ‘Fifty-Seven Fridays,’ Myra Sack chronicles how she and her husband continue to navigate the loss of their child, carrying her with them as they move forward
By Cathryn J. Prince
Photo of Yitskhok Rudashevski in the 1930s. (Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Israel/ Photo Archive and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
July 20, 2024, 7:55 am
Now online, diary of teen shot by Nazis tells of desperation, fear, hope in Vilna Ghetto
In its second web-based exhibition, YIVO makes available the lucid observations of Yitskhok Rudashevski, a 15-year-old made wise beyond his years by a life of oppression
By Cathryn J. Prince
The family of 22-year-old Omer Neutra, who is being held hostage by Hamas, in Gaza speak at a rally in New York's Central Park on July 7, 2024. Left to right: Daniel Neutra, Ronen Neutra, and Orna Neutra. (Dani Tenenbaum and Liri Agami)
July 16, 2024, 1:52 am
US-Israeli hostage’s family fights to keep American public interested in fellow citizen
Set to speak at Republican convention on Wednesday, Omer Neutra’s relatives say it’s a struggle to maintain media awareness of the 8 US citizens held by Hamas since Oct. 7 massacre
By Cathryn J. Prince
A supporter of Israel takes part in the New York City Pride March on June 30, 2024, in New York City. (Adam GRAY / AFP)
July 10, 2024, 3:02 am
Isolated by their ‘allies,’ LGBTQ Jews in US gather to parse Pride’s anti-Israel leanings
As supporters of the Jewish state feel increasingly unwelcome at events for the Queer community, they turn to each other for support, while mulling what feels like betrayal
By Cathryn J. Prince
Doctors Without Borders staff gather at UN headquarters in New York to protest Israel's actions in Gaza, December 6, 2023, in New York. (Sara Kerens/AP Images for Doctors Without Borders)
July 1, 2024, 2:13 am
Ostracized post-Oct. 7, US doctor forms new association for Jewish health professionals
Jewish medical professionals say that since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war, they face a hostile atmosphere. The AJMA seeks to provide them resources and support
By Cathryn J. Prince
Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy space at an entrance to Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)
June 27, 2024, 4:01 pm
Some Jewish Columbia students see no end to campus antisemitism after DA closes case
NY prosecutor dropped charges against masked anti-Israel protesters who violently occupied university building in April, leaving many to fear they can be targeted without consequence
By Cathryn J. Prince
Sam Salz of the Texas A&M Aggies. (Courtesy Texas A&M Athletics)
May 23, 2024, 3:06 am
How Texas A&M Aggies’s Sam Salz became college football’s first known Orthodox player
Despite never having played on a team and not even owning a pair of cleats, the plucky athlete practiced alongside the squad and is now a walk-on member setting a Jewish example
By Cathryn J. Prince
Prof. Barbara Risman (Courtesy)
May 21, 2024, 12:45 am
Retiring early due to antisemitism, a professor paints a dire picture of US academia
Barbara J. Risman felt that the atmosphere among University of Illinois faculty after October 7 was too much for her to bear as a Jew. Her colleagues secretly tell her she’s right
By Cathryn J. Prince
Audience members listen to public comment at a special session of the Oakland City Council about a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, November 27, 2023, in Oakland, California. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)
May 2, 2024, 3:51 am
How ceasefire resolutions on faraway Gaza are sowing seeds of hate in US cities
Jewish Americans say people are using public hearings as a platform to spew antisemitism – and free speech laws prevent local governments from doing anything about it
By Cathryn J. Prince
Then-French president Francois Hollande walks back from a train car commemorating the Drancy concentration camp, during the inauguration of a new Holocaust memorial in Drancy, a Paris suburb, France, September 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)
May 1, 2024, 4:10 pm
Podcast about a French railway’s role in the Holocaust tracks with US Jews post-Oct. 7
Newly-released ‘Covering Their Tracks’ is about a battle for justice. But for Jewish Americans suffering unprecedented antisemitism, it’s a much-needed tale of resilience and pride
By Cathryn J. Prince
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