StandWithUs Northwest 2026 Community Reception Highlights
The StandWithUs Northwest 2026 Community Reception featured Miss Israel 2021, former IDF combat medic and influencer, Noa Cochva. We also honored allies from the Hindu and Iranian communities, heard the stories of three exceptional student leaders, and learned how StandWithUs is leading in the legal fight against antisemitism. While a group of 75 extreme anti-Israel activists […]
Universities are ‘failing to protect Jewish students from aggressive extremists’, report claims
By Chris Polard | Daily Mail | May 11 2026 Universities are failing in their moral duty as academics ‘foster, legitimise and actively participate’ in the marginalisation of Jewish students, a report claims. It states that ‘we are witnessing the collapse of the moral compass’ within Britain’s most prestigious institutions. And it says Jewish students are […]
Civil Rights Group Blasts ‘Drop Hillel’ Campaign as Attack on Jewish Identity
By Dion J. Pierre | The Algemeiner | May 13 2026 A California-based civil rights advocacy group on Tuesday condemned a campaign to ban chapters of Hillel International from college campuses as a “transparent” assault on Jewish identity which aims to force the community and support for Israel underground. StandWithUs, a nonprofit currently litigating a slew of […]
UC Law SF says it ‘vigorously’ supports free speech rights, after student gov encourages students to buy keffiyehs to wear at graduation
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman | JNS | May 9, 2026 University of California Law San Francisco, a public school formerly known as the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, is defending its student government, after the latter reportedly used a school listserv to encourage graduates to buy and wear keffiyehs to graduation ceremonies this […]
Opinion: I Taught for 23 Years. Antisemitism Forced Me Out
By Leslie Williamson | Jewish Times | May 7, 2026 Teaching in American schools has never been easy. But in recent years, it has become something else entirely for educators like me. As a Jewish teacher, I have watched my workplace shift from a place of purpose and community into one where I have, at […]
Jews of Morocco: Beauty, Memory and Loss
By Roz Rothstein | Jewish Journal | May 8, 2026 Our trip to Morocco was not simply a tour. It was an encounter with both the beauty and fragility of Jewish life in exile. We arrived in Morocco feeling a bit anxious. With everything happening with Iran and throughout the region, many of us wondered: […]
