Federal security funding program for religious institutions has been stalled due to the nearly monthlong shutdown at the US Department of Homeland Security

With YU's men's basketball team set to play in Division III March Madness regional semifinals for first time ever, fans flood to see them, challenging Emory's home court advantage

Medics say over 50 people in northern town of Zarzir were injured by broken glass * Michigan shul attacker ID'd as naturalized US citizen from Lebanon who reportedly lost relatives in Israeli strike

Hebrew media outlets say the 17-year-old was fatally struck by a car in Rehovot after receiving early warning of attack, though sirens didn't ultimately sound in the central city

US legal adviser: Finding against Israel would be 'radical'; Iceland, Netherlands also intervene in case, with Dutch urging court to probe 'deliberate withholding' of aid

Danny Citrinowicz, IDF's former top Iran researcher, fears regime will try and break out toward a bomb in response to killing of its supreme leader, whose policy was to keep Tehran at threshold

Columbia, Brown and UCLA are among the schools whose grades improved on the watchdog's annual campus antisemitism report card after falling in line to preserve federal funding

No injuries reported; police say suspects may have planned attack on second Jewish house of worship; synagogue chair decries lack of action over rising antisemitism