Jonathan D. Salant

5 days ago | jns.org | Jonathan D. Salant

(May 9, 2025 / JNS)Antisemitic comments directed at the 30 Jewish members of Congress are up 500% since Facebook’s parent company, Meta, dropped its independent fact-checkers and rolled back its efforts to moderate posts on the social media site, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League. The report, which the ADL’s Center for Technology and Society released on Thursday, states that the Jewish lawmakers saw an average of 6.5 daily antisemitic comments until Feb.

1 week ago | clevelandjewishnews.com | Jonathan D. Salant

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) led a letter asking congressional watchdogs to investigate whether Israel and other countries receiving U.S. aid are following laws that require them to respect human rights and allow aid to be delivered into areas of conflict.

1 week ago | jns.org | Jonathan D. Salant

(May 2, 2025 / JNS)The ways that Jewish college students are treated at anti-Israel protests look and sound like the period leading up to the Holocaust, David Schaecter, president of the Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA, told the Senate Special Committee on Aging at a hearing on Wednesday. “Protests on college campuses that intimidate and threaten Jewish students are not benign and cannot be ignored,” Schaecter, who survived Buchenwald and Auschwitz, told the Senate panel.

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(May 2, 2025 / JNS)As U.S. President Donald Trump reached the 100-day benchmark in his second term in the White House, members of the American Jewish community alternated between calling him “the greatest friend to Israel” and “a disaster for all America.”“God bless Donald Trump,” Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS. Sen.

1 week ago | jns.org | Jonathan D. Salant

(May 1, 2025 / JNS)Three Rutgers University students were arrested on Tuesday night and charged with rioting during appearances by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) at the Hillel and Chabad on the New Brunswick campus, and a fourth person, who is a teaching assistant at Cornell University, was charged with assaulting a police officer, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. “I always welcome a debate on the issues, even when I disagree,” Gottheimer told JNS.