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Avinoam Patt. Credit: Courtesy.

Holocaust scholar tapped to be first director of NYU’s new antisemitism center

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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...
Closeup of the Latin inscription at the top right of the Class of 1857 Gate (Wadsworth Gate) to Harvard Yard, the oldest part of the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass. Credit: Tada Images/Shutterstock.

Harvard University president Claudine Gay expected to resign in wake of dual controversies

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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....
Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli. Photo by Reuven Kapochinsky.

Harvard a synonym for antisemitism, says Diaspora minister

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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...
An aerial view of the main campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus. Credit: J. Jessee via Wikimedia Commons.

Report: Antisemitism varies widely on American college campuses

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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

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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...
The Widener Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 7, 2007. Credit: Joseph Williams via Wikimedia Commons.

Harvard professors denounce university initiative on antisemitism

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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...
Cooper Union in the East Village in Manhattan. Credit: DW labs Incorporated/Shutterstock.

Parents urge universities to do more to protect their children on campus

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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...
A video security camera mounted high on a college campus. Credit: Real Window Creative/Shutterstock.

Yeshivah high schools ask college recruiters to prove campuses are safe

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Universities have allowed a “toxic ideology to fester” that “manifests as aggressive and overt antisemitism,” more than 30 heads of yeshivah high schools wrote in a letter earlier this month. The leaders added that “sometimes even...
Destiny Albritton (left), national outreach director of the Israel on Campus Coalition, moderates a panel on "Broadening the Base" at the ICC's National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. in Aug. 2023. Courtesy: ICC.

Israel on Campus Coalition summit in DC has its staff talking about the weather

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So much for the conspiracy theory of Jews controlling the weather. Some intending to go to the Israel on Campus Coalition National Leadership Summit this week had difficulty getting to Washington, due to intense storms and even...
Healy Hall at Georgetown University. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

What are Arab donors to universities buying for $10 billion?

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After decades of ignoring how foreign governments were using donations to universities, the Department of Education (DoE) finally launched an investigation in 2020 and published a report that found that some of the foreign...