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Jewish President of Cornell Martha Pollack Suddenly Announces Retirement

Published by The Daily Caller Martha E. Pollack, president of Cornell University, announced her retirement in a surprising Thursday Instagram post. “After seven fruitful and gratifying years as Cornell’s president — and after a career in research and academia spanning five decades — I’m ready for a new chapter in my life,” Pollack wrote on […]

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Israel’s contestant booed as she makes it through to Eurovision final after protests

Published by Mirror By Jasmine Allday Israel’s singer Eden Golan has made it through to the Eurovision Song Contest finals. There has been controversy surrounding Israel’s inclusion in the singing competition and earlier today, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Malmo in a bid to remove Israel singer Eden Golan from the semi-finals.

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If Israel is forced to stand alone, it will stand alone: PM Netanyahu

Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], May 10 (ANI): Rejecting international pressure to halt the war in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that if “forced,” Israel will “stand alone” in its war against Hamas. Netanyahu spoke after President Joe Biden said the United States would not provide offensive weapons for Israel’s long-promised

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Lightning Storms in Arctic Speeding Global Warming, Polar Melt

A statistical analysis of the ice sheet retreat compared with the number of lightning storms revealed a correlation: as the number of storms increased in a certain year, so did the melting of the sea ice increase that year. [Press Release, Tel Aviv University]

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Jewish Tritons Outline Situation Facing Jews at UCSD

Antisemitism has grown rampantly since the October 7th massacre carried out by Hamas, and rising Jew-hatred has caused Jewish students to feel increasingly unsafe on campus. We students are fearful of expressing our identities on campus, and especially in the classroom. [Press Release]

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Senators: Protestors calling for violence against Jews should be on No-Fly List

Published by The Center Square (The Center Square) – Republican U.S. Sens. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., introduced two measures that, if passed, would achieve a similar objective: to place on the No Fly List individuals who are encouraging violence against Jewish persons and supporting terrorist organizations. They introduced a bill, the No

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Israel’s Eurovision Entry ‘Hurricane’ by Eden Golan Needs Your Vote

“Israeli superstar Eden Golan is proudly representing Israel at the second semi-finals of Eurovision on Thursday, May 9. Despite tons of hate, death threats, and attempts at disqualification, the Israeli delegation is determined to participate and for Eden to perform her tribute to the victims of October 7, ‘Hurricane.'” [Press Release]

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US pauses weapons shipment to Israel as assault on Rafah steps up

Published by DPA International The United States has paused a large shipment of weapons to Israel, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday, amid ongoing concerns in Washington about Israeli military operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. “We’re going to continue to do what’s necessary to support Israel,” Austin said, calling Washington’s security

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SHALOM Act passes North Carolina House 105-4

Published by The Center Square (The Center Square) – Responding to recent protests centered on the war between Hamas and Israel, the North Carolina House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation that joins more than 30 other states in adopting a working definition of antisemitism. The definition was adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

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Hadassah: 18 American Women You Should Know

From TV star Debra Messing, who is executive-producing Primal Fear, a documentary about the post-October 7 eruption in antisemitism, to Hadassah Zionism-education star Diana Diner, from Christian Zionist Destiny Albritton to LGBTQ+ progressive Zionist Toby Klein, from black Jewish poet/digital content creator Tova Ricardo to constitutional scholar Sam von Ende – these women and the others on the 2024 list represent the diversity of Zionism today. [Press Release]

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