German police in the state of Bavaria on Tuesday raided the homes of more than a dozen people accused of having spread antisemitic material online, including the celebration of the Hamas attacks against Israel. Bavarian criminal police say the suspects included 15 men and two men, aged 18 to 62, …
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The Christian faith of early 20th-century Irish author C.S. Lewis is enjoying a rebirth right now as American culture, and the wider Western world, appear to have lost a sense of right and wrong. Credit the recent rediscovery of the author’s writings on religion, culture and morality, including “A Christmas …
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Earlier this month, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, a pioneer in trauma research, sparked outrage as he led a workshop on trauma at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, a retreat center in Rhinebeck, N.Y., comparing Israelis to “Nazis” and disparaging orthodox Jewish patients for choosing their “tribe” over “truth.” …
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A Harvard alumnus said the Ivy League university needs a “hard reset” to go back to being a center of academic excellence after the resignation of president Claudine Gay on Tuesday. “Harvard very much needs a hard reset,” Jonathan Harounoff, the director of communications at the Jewish Institute for National …
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The United Kingdom’s government and police urged organizers of a planned anti-Israel protest to cancel the event following this week’s deadly synagogue attack, saying demonstrators should “respect the grief of British Jews.” “I know that planned protests over the weekend, just a few days before the anniversary of the October …
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A group of Harvard faculty members say many students at the Ivy League university are skipping class, skimming or ignoring reading assignments, avoiding challenging discussions, and still graduating thanks to grade inflation. The New York Times reported Monday on findings released by the Classroom Social Compact Committee, a group of …
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On this, the second anniversary of the massacre in Israel following the invasionfrom Gaza by Hamas and other terrorists, all commentaries about that day of horrors, should begin by recalling the specifics of that attack — its immediate toll, the brutality of the mayhem and the extraordinary cruelty of killers …
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The suspect behind the deadly car and knife terror attack outside a synagogue in Manchester in theUnited Kingdomon Thursday has been identified by police as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent. Police said Al-Shamie entered the United Kingdom as a young child and became a citizen in …
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One of the two victims who died in the terrorist attack on a U.K. synagogue on Yom Kippur was accidentally shot by Manchester police as they rushed to subdue the attacker, British officials confirmed on Friday. Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed on Thursday after 35-year-old British …
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Far-left, anti-Israel student groups are using language sympathetic to Hamas terrorists, including phrases such as “righteously engaged in decolonial struggle,” to promote events markingtwo years since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, killing approximately 1,200 people and taking hundreds of hostages. A recentInstagram post by UCLA’s Students for …
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