A recent position paper published by the Jewish People Policy Institute describes the hostility and resulting challenges to Jewish students and to the field of Israel Studies at large. This is but one ...

Earlier this week, the Judaic Studies program brought together scholars from across institutions in an off-the-record workshop to discuss the future of the field of Israel studies with a specific ...

This administration’s purported war against campus antisemitism is in fact a crusade against the rights of free expression, academic freedom and due process for everyone involved in higher education ...

This report focuses on the experience of summer 2025 US participants in Birthright’s 10-day trips. Summer 2025 marked a year and a half since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas.

The University of California system plans to institute a proposed admissions requirement in ethnic studies, but the process to draft and approve course criteria has dragged on for more than two years ...

Something revealing happened this week at Stanford University, though not in a classroom. The Stanford Daily recently reported on the launch of a new Israel Studies program housed within the Center on ...

JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel is reviewing a revised response from Hamas to a proposed ceasefire and hostage-release deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Thursday, as Israeli ...

Israel’s quest to root out Hamas has inflicted indiscriminate death and destruction on Gaza and Palestinian civilians. Humanitarian pauses are no longer enough. The doctors I’ve worked with to build ...

Sharp rises in food and housing prices in the past two decades are the main factors, fueling the ever-rising cost of living ...

I read The Herald’s recent article “Scholars grapple with future of Israel studies in two-day conference” with interest. It was reported that some perceived an element of bias in the program. I’d like ...