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Cornell inks $60M deal with Trump administration to resolve antisemitism claims
Cornell University will pay $60 million to the Trump administration to resolve ongoing antisemitism investigations and unfreeze $250 million in federal funds, becoming the fourth Ivy League school and fifth overall to strike such a deal. The deal came weeks after another agreement signed by the University of Virginia, and also followed the resolution of…
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What Christopher Marlowe Can Teach Us About Society Today
Palace of Westminster, c. 2015. Photo: Carlos Cunha/Wikimedia Commons. Christopher Marlowe (1564 –1593, also known as Kit Marlowe) was, after William Shakespeare, the most famous playwright of the Elizabethan era. His brilliant career was cut short when he was murdered in a controversial fight over a meal check. Experts to this day argue about the circumstances, with…
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Exposed: Leaked Report Reveals the Anti-Israel Bias Rotting the BBC From Within
The BBC logo is seen at the entrance at Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in central London. Photo by Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect The BBC has once again been exposed for its virulent anti-Israel bias. On Monday, November 3, The Telegraph published a scoop that, according to a leaked internal report,…
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Two Jewish Moral Worlds: What the Mamdani Election Reveals
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani holds a press conference at the Unisphere in the Queens borough of New York City, US, Nov. 5, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kylie Cooper When a single election lays bare a community’s conscience, it deserves more than punditry. The recent victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York’s Democratic primary was more…
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The Cornerstone Is Cracking: Why Egypt’s Internal Decay Threatens the Middle East’s Longest Peace
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, June 10, 2024. Photo: Amr Nabil/Pool via REUTERS The 1979 Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel has long been the geopolitical cornerstone of the Middle East, establishing a stable southern flank for Israel…
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BBC execs resign amid scandal over Trump interview edit and Gaza war coverage
(JTA) — The head of BBC and its top news executive have quit amid allegations that the network misled viewers in coverage of President Donald Trump and the Gaza war. The BBC’s director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday after a leaked report by Michael Prescott, a former standards…
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Hamas returns remains of hostage held for 11 years as attention deepens around postwar planning
(JTA) — Hamas returned the remains of Hadar Goldin, an Israeli soldier it murdered and kidnapped in 2014, to Israel on Sunday, bringing the number of hostages whose remains it still holds in Gaza to four. All four were killed when Hamas attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The number has shrunk steadily in…
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BBC execs resign amid scandal over Trump interview edit and Gaza war coverage
The head of BBC and its top news executive have quit amid allegations that the network misled viewers in coverage of President Donald Trump and the Gaza war. The BBC’s director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday after a leaked report by Michael Prescott, a former standards adviser to…
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Hamas returns remains of hostage held for 11 years as attention deepens around postwar planning
Hamas returned the remains of Hadar Goldin, an Israeli soldier it murdered and kidnapped in 2014, to Israel on Sunday, bringing the number of hostages whose remains it still holds in Gaza to four. All four were killed when Hamas attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The number has shrunk steadily in recent days…
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This Jewish farmer is harvesting corn — and planting a synagogue — in the Illinois prairie
STERLING, ILLINOIS — Nik Jakobs crouched down and scooped a handful of dirt. A third-generation cattle farmer and grandson of Holocaust survivors, he rubbed the soil between his fingers, testing its weight the way his father and grandfather once did. But this time, he wasn’t thinking about crops. He was thinking about a synagogue. Jakobs,…
