People are probably going to yell at me for having this conversation,” Hasan Piker said from his livestreaming chair, midway through a video call with Jewish Telegraphic Agency to discuss his views on Jews, Israel and Zionism. By “people,” Piker meant his own: the three million followers he boasts on the streaming site Twitch, where he opines about politics in between video game sessions for up to eight hours a day. That doesn’t include the many more who watch clips of his show on YouTube or follow him on X.
Four days after an attacker drove a car filled with explosives into her synagogue, Rabbi Jen Lader called a trusted photographer. Emily Iris Elconin took what would become the first official photos of the aftermath of the attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
In a video he posted March 10, Tucker Carlson said: “You may know people who give money to Chabad or run Chabad — super nice people, engaged in all kinds of charitable activities. But what is Chabad exactly? “Chabad has been pushing in a pretty subtle way, unless you look carefully, for the reconstruction of the Third Temple.”
Wesleyan University president Michael Roth recently delivered a lecture on another campus outlining why academia should be more forceful in standing up to President Trump’s policies.
Harvard University’s president has apologized for the campus climate over the last year-and-a-half, asa report from a university task force on anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias was unveiled.