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The union representing professors at the City University of New York approved a resolution last week in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.

The art exhibit is one of two Holocaust-related events Yad Vashem organized in New York this week. The second is the dedication of a street on East 67th Street and 3rd Avenue as Yad Vashem Way. The Jan. 30 street naming ceremony marks the first time a street in the US honors the Israeli institution dedicated to memorializing the Holocaust.

The new street sign, named for the Jerusalem museum built in 1953 as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust, is just a few steps from Park East Synagogue, the stately Orthodox congregation at 163 East 67th St. that’s been led for more than six decades by Rabbi Arthur Schneier, himself a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor.

Jonathan Harounoff, Israel's spokesman to the United Nations, observes that anti-Israel agitators have taken their cause to "sickening" new lows in New York City.

Thursday night, delegates of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), the union representing faculty, graduate assistants, and many staff titles at the City University of New York (CUNY), voted 73-70 in favor of a resolution for the union to divest from Israeli companies and government bonds,

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday instructing all federal agencies to identify civil and criminal authorities available to combat antisemitism.

This institution of Yad Vashem, which is more necessary than ever, is now going to have a rightful place on the streets of New York,” Keith Powers, a New York

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A group of protesters clogged the sewage system of Columbia’s international affairs school, and spray painted the business school with an antisemitic slur

Jessica Tisch outlined the future of the NYPD and called out prosecutors over repeated offenders in her first "State of the NYPD" address.