Israel at 75: The view from Seattle’s Jewish community
The Seattle Times Maxima Patashnik Sept. 7, 2023 The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is a network of 35 local Jewish organizations and dozens of individual leaders representing diverse perspectives and backgrounds. We convene, educate, and advocate on issues of vital concern based on Jewish values, consensus, and respect […]
Rabbis United’s Rosh Hashanah Message: We Proudly Stand With Israel and the Jewish People
(Los Angeles, CA — September 7, 2023) — Rabbis United, (RU) a new a division of StandWithUs, has a Rosh Hashanah message for people of all ages. As a coalition of spiritual leaders from all the denominations of Judaism, the message conveys a deep sense of connection to the State of Israel and a clear […]
StandWithUs Condemns Abbas’ Latest Hate Speech
LOS ANGELES, September 8, 2023 – StandWithUs strongly condemns the August 24, 2023 hate speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas before the Fatah Central Committee that recently came to light. In his speech Abbas rationalized the Nazi genocide against six million Jews by claiming Hitler “fought” the Jews not because of antisemitism but due […]
Newsom Warns Schools Not to Adopt Ethnic Studies Curriculum Pushing Bias, Bigotry, or Discrimination
By: Aaron Bandler | Jewish Journal | August 24, 2023 “An attack on any of our communities is an attack on everything we stand for as Californians.” California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) issued a letter on Wednesday warning schools not to adopt any ethnic studies curriculum that promotes “bias, bigotry or discrimination.” The full letter, […]
StandWithUs to host first major event in North Texas
In recent years, the rise of antisemitism in the United States and abroad has increased dramatically. At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 6, StandWithUs, a nonpartisan education organization that supports Israel and fights antisemitism, will have its first program in North Texas. The free event will be held at Chabad of Dallas, 6710 Levelland Road […]
StandWithUs Sends Letters to UCSC and NYU Regarding ICSZ Conference
(Los Angeles, CA — September 1, 2023) — On September 1st, the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department and the Center for Combating Antisemitism sent letters to administrators at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and New York University (NYU) expressing concern about the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’s (ICSZ) upcoming conference, “Battling the […]
Letter to NYU from StandWithUs regarding October 2023 ICSZ conference on IHRA definition
Letter to UCSC from StandWithUs regarding October 2023 ICSZ conference on IHRA definition
Suspect Wanted for Hate Crimes
By: San Diego County Crime Stoppers | Aug 23, 2023 UP TO $3500 REWARD San Diego County Crime Stoppers and investigators from the San Diego Police Department’s Eastern Division are asking for the public’s help in identifying and locating the suspect responsible for threatening and assaulting a rabbi in the College area of San Diego. […]
$3,500 Reward Offered for Information about Suspect in Attack on Rabbi Aharon Shapiro
By: Donald H. Harrison | San Diego Jewish World | August 23, 2023 SAN DIEGO –San Diego Crime Stoppers on Wednesday, Aug. 23, offered a reward of up to $1,000 for help in identifying and locating the suspect who threatened and assaulted Orthodox Rabbi Aharon Shapiro on July 24 inside a 7-Eleven store at 5142 […]
Three students named by StandWithUs
By: Washington Jewish Week | November 18, 2022 StandWithUs has named three Washington-area students to participate in its programs. Sophomores Gabrielle Guigui, of George Washington University, and Philip Eigen , of American University, are StandWithUs 2022-23 Emerson Fellows. Senior Esther Berkowitz is the 2022-23 StandWithUs Kenneth Leventhal High School Intern at the Berman Hebrew Academy. […]
StandWithUs Hires Campus and High School Regional Managers and Selects Leventhal HS Interns for 2022
BY: TEXAS JEWISH POST StandWithUs (SWU), an international, non-partisan education organization that supports Israel and fights antisemitism, is pleased to announce the 2022-23 students participating in the Kenneth Leventhal High School Internship from Dallas. They are: Eden Behr, Plano West HS; Eli Raphael, Highland Park HS and Lily Feinstein and Shayna Rubinstein are at Akiba […]
Meet StandWithUs 2023-24 Emerson Fellow Ahava Kirwan
Ahava Kirwan, a 2023-24 StandWithUs Emerson Fellow from the University of Texas in San Antonio, wrote this powerful poem published in the university newspaper, The Paisano . She says, “My entire family, except for my great-grandparents, were murdered in the Holocaust. I have family who were killed in the Svisloch Massacre in Belarus, where the […]
GWU cuts ties with academic group following support for BDS
AIDAN MAYS | THE COLLEGE FIX | AUGUST 11, 2023 MESA’s endorsement of the BDS movement undermines academic freedom by rejecting cooperation based on national origin and support of Israel’s right to exist,’ pro-Israel group says. George Washington University has announced it will no longer partner with the Middle East Studies Association by the end […]
In Brazil, pro-Palestinian protest leads to injury and arrest at pro-Israel speaker’s lecture
BY MARCUS M. GILBAN | JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY | AUGUST 16, 2023 Andre Lajst leads the Brazil chapter of StandWithUs, a Zionist advocacy organization. (Courtesy of StandWithUs Brazil) RIO DE JANEIRO ( JTA ) — Pro-Palestinian protesters injured a university employee while demonstrating against a lecture speaker who heads the Brazilian chapter of a pro-Israel […]
Princeton University Course Features Book By Professor Accused of Promoting Blood Libels
By: Aaron Bandler | Jewish Journal | August 14, 2023 The book in question is the 2017 book “The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability” by Jasbir Puar, who heads Rutgers University’s Gender Studies program. A course at Princeton University reportedly features a book that critics say promotes blood libels. The book in question is […]
The Right Organization At The Right Time
By: Oz Linado | L’chaim Magazine | August 6, 2023 As we know all too well, antisemitism is on the rise, especially in our high schools and colleges. At UCSD, a dorm bathroom was vandalized with a swastika made from fecal matter and the Menorah was vandalized at SDSU Chabad House. What fuels antisemitism? According […]
Antisemitism on College Campuses — and a Call to Action
By: Rena Nasar First | Distinctions Journal SUMMER 2023 — ANTISEMITISM ‘Robust debate’ or Jewish hate? An uproar at George Washington University puts Jewish and Israeli students on the defensive — and their advocate, a Syrian Jew, on offense. In the 2022 Fall semester, Jewish and Israeli graduate students enrolled in the Professional Psychology Program […]
