Tag: College Campus
Jewish high-schoolers refrained from applying to some colleges, say parents
Hillel International released the results of a new survey, taken between March 13 and March 18, of 427 Jewish parents and the status of their children applying to U.S. colleges.
It showed that 64% of Jewish parents...
New program aims for black-Jewish cooperation in battling antisemitism
The Academic Engagement Network (AEN) will provide grants to two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for an initiative to nurture greater black-Jewish community alliances.
“While there are other excellent programs that seek to repair...
Ed Department starts Title VI investigations into five more colleges
Universities in Illinois, Vermont, California, Pennsylvania and New York are being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for potential violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
On Tuesday, the OCR named...
Holocaust scholar tapped to be first director of NYU’s new antisemitism center
New York University launched a brand-new Center for the Study of Antisemitism in November after receiving two $1 million gifts, the most recent one anonymously. Now it has named professor Avinoam Patt as its director.
He has also been...
Harvard University president Claudine Gay expected to resign in wake of dual controversies
Harvard University president Claudine Gay is expected to resign on Tuesday, The Boston Globe reported.
Gay has been embroiled in dual controversies over her response to campus antisemitism at Harvard University in the wake of Hamas’s Oct....
Harvard a synonym for antisemitism, says Diaspora minister
Harvard University has become synonymous with antisemitism, and to a total moral collapse of core basic academic values that is spreading like wildfire on American campuses, Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs said Thursday.
The remarks...
Report: Antisemitism varies widely on American college campuses
The Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., has released research revealing the most antisemitic academic institutions in America according to surveyed students. It comes in the context...
Family in Reserves
A basic aspect of life in Israel is the requirement that every adult, whether male or female, must serve in the IDF for a few years upon reaching the age of 18. While serving...
Harvard professors denounce university initiative on antisemitism
Recent efforts by administrators to push back against overt displays of antisemitism at the leading Ivy League institute have inspired pushback of its own.
A letter to Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president, co-signed by more than 100 Harvard faculty described...
Parents urge universities to do more to protect their children on campus
A Jewish student’s nose broken at Tulane University in New Orleans. In Manhattan, Jewish students resorted to hiding in a Cooper Union library as anti-Israel protesters pounded on the door, and in New York state, Cornell University’s kosher...