Tag: Colleges & Universities
Ohio State, Temple U, others under Title VI investigation
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced on Tuesday that it is investigating alleged Title VI violations of four schools and a district.
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Minneapolis, Minn.), Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pa.), The...
There’s no middle ground in the fight against DEI antisemitism
Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University but as she conceded defeat in her battle to hold onto her post, she further poisoned public discourse about the controversy that undid her. In a New York Times op-ed,...
Jewish students at the University of Maryland ‘watching our backs a lot’
National discussions about campus antisemitism since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel have largely overlooked one of the nation’s largest Jewish student populations: the University of Maryland, College Park.
The 1,340-acre campus,...
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....
Penn ‘failed to take concrete action’ on Jew-hatred, state governor says
The recent resignation of University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill and board chair Scott Bok has thrown Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro “into a national debate over when constitutionally protected speech veers into impermissible hate speech,” The Wall...
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...
Brandeis publishes author who claims Israel practices mass rape
A radical historian who claims Israel practices mass rape of Palestinian Arabs is one of the contributors to a book that has just been published by Brandeis University Press. And this just as anti-Israel extremists are...
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...
Yeshivah high schools ask college recruiters to prove campuses are safe
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...