Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid controversy
Claudine Gay announced her resignation Tuesday in a letter addressed to the Harvard community.
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Claudine Gay announced her resignation Tuesday in a letter addressed to the Harvard community.
Every week, CBS News Texas political reporter Jack Fink breaks down some of the biggest political stories grabbing headlines in North Texas and beyond.
Colleges and universities have been criticized for their handling of antisemitic incidents since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel.
Elon Musk's social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, filed a lawsuit against the liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America.
Since the Israel-Hamas war began Oct. 7, the number of antisemitic incidents rose 388% compared to the same period last year, according to the ADL.
Douglas Emhoff led a round table on fighting antisemitism at a convention in Dallas yesterday and will be in Houston today.
The Molotov cocktail's bottle broke and the synagogue was undamaged, police said. No one was injured.
It's been one year since Jeffrey Cohen, Lawrence Schwartz, and Shane Woodward - along with their Rabbi, Charlie Cytron Walker - were held hostage at gunpoint for hours while praying during the Shabbat service on what should have been a quiet Saturday morning at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville. "We're healing, we're not healed. We're getting there. I am permanently changed. I'm much more aware of my surroundings everywhere that I go. I'm much more on edge." Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/dfw/news/healing-not-healed-colleyville-synagogue-hostage-standoff-1-year-later/
A year after Malik Akram took four people hostage during an hours-long standoff at Congregation Beth-Israel in Colleyville, Jack Fink sat down to talk to three of the men held at gunpoint.
After ending its deal with the rapper, sportswear giant is expected to sell unreleased Yeezy designs under its own label.
Sports apparel giant calls the rapper's recent remarks about Jewish people "unacceptable, hateful and dangerous."
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called Trump's post "insulting" and "antisemitic."
While both accounts were still visible as of Sunday evening, several posts had been removed.
Nearly two decades after Randy Halprin, one of the notorious "Texas 7" gang was convicted and sentenced to death, his attorneys are seeking a new trial.
Since the hostage situation at the synagogue, Drazin said dozens of other companies in North Texas reached out to her so they too could include antisemitism in their conversations with their employees.
After a gunman took a Colleyville synagogue hostage in January, the Cowboys wanted to tackle the topic of antisemitism.
Police are investigating reports that fliers covered with anti-Semitic material were dropped on driveways in Colleyville and Garland this weekend.
Jewish communities across the United States once again find themselves on edge in the wake of another attack on worshippers at a synagogue, this time at Congregation Beth Israel in North Texas.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum has condemned the attack on Chabad Synagogue of Poway, saying they are "heartsick that such a young man could be filled with blind hatred."
A new report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says anti-vaccination activists are using the yellow Star of David that Nazis forced Jews to wear during World War II to promote their cause.
"Nobody manipulated it. All that is is a close-up," said the president, who then attacked the reporter for asking the question and called him "dishonest."
President Donald Trump is accusing the media of being "the true Enemy of People" in the wake of a mass shooting and a mail bomb plot.
A Jewish civil rights group is reporting a sharp increase in propaganda campaigns by white supremacist groups on U.S. college campuses.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the rise of populism has triggered an increase in anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, anti-Muslim hatred and other forms of intolerance.
