• At the Academy Awards telecast, the Israeli-Palestinian documentary, “No Other Land,” won an Oscar for Best Documentary, but has no U.S. distribution.

 

  • Mikey Madison, who is Jewish, won best actress for “Anora,” which is set in Brighton Beach.

 

  • Linda McMahon, the billionaire wrestling executive was confirmed as Education Secretary. She supports Trump’s effort to dismantle parts of the agency she now runs, even as it serves as the main federal body investigating allegations of antisemitism on campus. To date, about half of the 4,100-person workforce has been slashed

In what may seem a contradictory move, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued letters to 60 colleges and universities it says are under investigation for alleged violations “relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination.” The list of schools included elite Ivy League schools, state schools and smaller institutions. The letters warned of possible consequences, including cuts in federal funding, if they don’t take adequate steps to protect Jewish students. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations have erupted periodically on college campuses and have led to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators.

 

  • President Trump wants to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist. The American Jewish Committee said it was “appalled” by Khalil’s views, but did not praise his arrest. Judge Jesse Furman, a Jewish federal judge, who blocked Trump’s deportation order of Khalil, faced a wave of online attacks from far-right figures — including against his wife, a prominent Jewish educator.

 

  • The man charged with killing seven and injuring dozens more at the 2022 July 4 parade in the heavily Jewish city of Highland Park, Ill, changed his plea to guilty as his trial was about to begin.

 

  • Brad Lander, one of two Jewish candidates in a crowded mayoral race in New York City, the largest Jewish community outside Israel, unveiled a public safety plan that includes measures to curb the rise in antisemitism.

 

  • Every Jewish U.S. House Democrat urged Google CEO Sundar Pichai to reinstate International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Jewish American Heritage Month as default listings on Google Calendar.

 

  • Steve Bannon accepted a “Warrior for Israel” award from Orthodox pro-MAGA activists, using the stage to dismiss accusations of antisemitism and calling himself “one of the most pro-Israel people out there,” a week after he made a straight-armed gesture many saw as a Nazi salute.

 

  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he invoked emergency powers to bypass Congress and expedite $4 billion in military aid to Israel.

 

  • A federal task force on antisemitism will visit 10 U.S. college campuses to address rising antisemitic incidents, including Columbia, Harvard and UCLA.

 

  • Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s antisemitism envoy and a longtime Holocaust scholar at Emory University, said she was considering a visiting professor job next year at Columbia. “But I’m now convinced that to do so would be folly — to serve as a prop or a fig leaf,” she wrote of her decision to turn down the offer.

 

  • Nicole Shanahan, the billionaire and former vice presidential running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during the 2024 election, said she is now a member of Jews for Jesus.

 

  • Jeremy Strong did not win an Oscar for his role as Jewish attorney Roy Cohn in a biopic about Donald Trump, will star in Netflix’s “The Boys From Brazil,” a series about the 1978 Nazi cloning thriller.

 

  • Photographer Gillian Laub has been documenting the stories of the remaining estimated 245,000 Holocaust survivors, capturing more than 300 portraits so far.

 

  • Mark Carney, the newly elected leader of Canada’s Liberal Party and the incoming prime minister, has vowed to protect Canadian Jews amid rising antisemitism.

 

  • Conservative radio host Anthony Cumia, who was fired a decade ago by SiriusXM for sexual content and hate speech and who has since shared antisemitic and racist content on social media, is back on the air with a new show, “The Anthony Cumia Show,” on WABC, according to a press release from the station’s parent company, Red Apple Audio Networks. John Catsimatidis, the company’s owner, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that “WABC will not allow him to say anything antisemitic.”

Twitter suspended Cumia’s account in 2017, and permanently banned him from the platform in 2021. He was allowed to return after the website was purchased by Elon Musk, the following year.

 

  • Antisemitism in Switzerland has surged to an “unprecedented level” across the country, according to the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) in collaboration with the Foundation Against Racism and Antisemitism ((GRA). The war in the Middle East has fueled incidents, the report said. In 2024, 103 incidents were reported, compared to 38 the previous year, and 6 in 2022. Incidents are climbing this year.

“Whereas attacks such as verbal abuse, spitting, physical assault, and even brutal attacks on life had been distant occurrences happening abroad, they are now a reality here,” the SIG and GRA said.

 

  • A terrorist rammed his car into a bus stop in Israel, then opened fire, killing an elderly man and critically injuring a soldier before being killed by police.

 

  • Thew chief rabbi of Orléans, France, was assaulted in the city on March 29 — an attack French President Emmanuel Macron condemned as a reminder of the “poison” of antisemitism.