4+ hour ago   (979+ words) WALTHAM, Massachusetts | New England Patriots owner and Jewish philanthropist Robert Kraft has donated $10 million to Brandeis University to help build a major new center for Jewish life and leadership at the Massachusetts university. The gift will establish the Robert K. Kraft…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1064+ words) HAIFA, Israel | Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan says Israel’s future technological strength will depend on the same combination of deep scientific education, engineering expertise and national purpose that helped produce some of the country’s most important defense and high-tech achievements....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (856+ words) TORONTO, Canada | Five major Jewish organizations have released a Jewish Students’ Bill of Rights calling on elementary and secondary schools across North America to adopt six standards intended to protect Jewish students from antisemitism, harassment and pressure to distance themselves…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (919+ words) TEL AVIV, Israel | Israel is preparing for what it believes could be the next major transformation in artificial intelligence: taking AI out of computers and embedding it directly into robots, autonomous machines, vehicles, drones and other systems operating in the…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1212+ words) WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES | Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, two-thirds of Middle East scholars surveyed say they lack confidence that their current students understand the events leading to 9/11 and can correctly identify both the principal perpetrators and core reasons…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (962+ words) JERUSALEM, ISRAEL | President Isaac Herzog has presented 11 Israelis with the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor, the country’s highest civilian recognition, celebrating achievements ranging from pioneering scientific research and disability education to Jewish scholarship, conservation, music, the performing arts, and public…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (987+ words) TORONTO, ONT. — The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has awarded $7,000 to a former Toronto Metropolitan University teaching assistant whose controversial Arabic-language prayer included remarks widely condemned as offensive to Jews, while rejecting his central claim that the university dismissed him…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1003+ words) The three developments, announced Sept. 2 and 3, involve separate areas of federal authority and are at different legal stages. The university legislation must still pass the Senate, the healthcare directive is federal civil-rights guidance, and allegations involving the National Education Association…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (878+ words) CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — Australia’s peak visual arts advocacy organization is facing growing political scrutiny over its public funding after a submission to the country’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion alleged that people associated with the organization circulated or endorsed…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (801+ words) NEW YORK, UNITED STATES | Three reports from different parts of the United States show how antisemitism can appear in public spaces, classrooms and online discussions about religion. The incidents differ in both severity and evidentiary status. Police are investigating vandalism…...