Grace Gilson

1 week ago | timesofisrael.com | Francois Murphy |John Irish |Grace Gilson |Jacob Magid

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3 weeks ago | crescentcityjewishnews.com | Ben Sales |Grace Gilson

By BEN SALES(JTA) — Katrina Armstrong, Columbia University’s interim president, stepped down on Friday as the school faced criticism over campus antisemitism, including the threat of losing $400 million in federal funding. Armstrong’s departure means the Ivy League university in Manhattan will have its third leader in the space of a year.

4 weeks ago | crescentcityjewishnews.com | Grace Gilson |Philissa Cramer

By GRACE GILSON(JTA) — The Trump administration’s bid to suspend funding for refugee admissions was partially blocked by a Seattle federal judge Monday, in response to a lawsuit by refugee aid agencies including the Jewish group HIAS. The injunction from Judge Jamal N. Whitehead found it unlawful for the administration to terminate its agreements with the refugee resettlement agencies. Monday’s injunction ordered the federal government to restore funding to the agencies.

1 month ago | crescentcityjewishnews.com | Grace Gilson |Ben Sales

By GRACE GILSON(JTA) — The Facebook page British History has a devoted but not particularly emotive following. Multiple times a day, it posts an image and factoid from, well, British history, to a handful of comments and thumbs-up emojis. But when it showed followers an image of Clifford’s Tower in York, England, over the weekend and informed them about an antisemitic massacre of 150 Jews that took place there in 1190, the response was different.