The Department of Homeland Security

US appeals court rules Mahmoud Khalil deportation case can continue

In a separate but related development, the Trump administration reportedly fired two immigration judges who blocked the deportation of two pro-Palestine international students.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Columbia students, professors, gather in front of the University to rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil, Leqaa Kordia, and the numerous other community members who have been unlawfully detained by ICE, in New York City, United States, on March 09, 2026.
An immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent raises a finger moments after detaining a man during an immigration raid, on Sunday in Minneapolis.

ICE detains Palestinian-American mosque president in Wisconsin 'with no cause,' mosque says

Wisconsin's largest mosque said Sarsour, 53, is a legal permanent resident who has lived in the US for over three decades and was detained on Monday. He grew up in the West Bank.

|ByREUTERS
Yeshiva World News website hacked by Iran. March 18, 2026.

Orthodox news site Yeshiva World News hacked in apparent Iranian cyberattack

The website featured for a while the words “Now we are under their control. The Zionists are handcuffed” in Farsi.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Law enforcement vehicles are seen parked outside Temple Israel guarding the scene in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on March 13, 2026, after an person identified as Ayman Ghazali drove a vehicle into the building.

Michigan synagogue shooter had vehicle full of fireworks, shot himself during attack, FBI says

The suspect, a naturalized US citizen with no criminal record, had recently lost family members in Lebanon due to an IDF airstrike.

|ByAARON GLICK

Jewish groups get security funding despite talk of rollbacks

The Department of Homeland Security disbursed the funding last week, the vast majority of which goes to Jewish institutions.+

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017ByJTA
Rabbi Menachem Genack (left) and Rabbi Moshe Elefant of the Orthodox Union