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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...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (front, center) and his wife Nechama Rivlin (front, left) host young scientists who have been received Blavatnik awards for research innovation on Feb. 4, 2018. The billionaire Len Blavatnik (back, fourth from left) looks on. Credit: Mark Neyman/GPO.

Antisemitism ‘context’ at Harvard costs the school another billionaire donor

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Len Blavatnik has joined a “donor revolt” following Harvard University president Claudine Gay's testimony before Congress that it depends on context whether calling for genocide against Jews violates school policy, Bloomberg reported. Blavatnik, who is Jewish and...
The New College of Florida Admissions Office. Photo: Michael Miller/Flickr

Campus Jewish life requires education reform

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Does a mob calling for the genocide of the Jews constitute harassment? Maybe, maybe not. It’s complicated. At least, that’s what the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania told a stunned...
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...
An aerial view of the 2006 Harvard-Yale football game. Source: Harvard Sports Information Dept. via Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish football coach helped merit chip away at Harvard’s elite social status

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When Harvard University named Bill Bingham athletic director–a pioneering college sports role at the time in 1926–the alumnus promised to return the game to student athletes. He hired Arnold Horween as head football coach...
“The Harvard Crimson” Building at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Credit: Beyond My Ken via Wikimedia Commons.

When will Harvard acknowledge its entanglement with anti-Semitism?

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Harvard made headlines when it set up a $100 million endowment fund to research and redress its “extensive entanglements with slavery.” While Harvard’s role in slavery ended in 1781, anti-Semitism remains embedded at Harvard...
“The Harvard Crimson” Building at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Credit: Beyond My Ken via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Harvard Crimson’ editorial board declares support for BDS and ‘Free Palestine’

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In an editorial last week, The Harvard Crimson announced its support for the BDS movement and a “free Palestine,” ending a 20-year legacy of opposition to boycotting Israel. “In the past, our board was skeptical of the movement (if...

Déjà vu all over again at Harvard

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The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on Jan. 24, Fair Admissions v. Harvard University, which not only has some profound implications for the future of affirmative action in college admissions but also raises again a...
Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Credit: f11photo/Shutterstock.

Election of atheist Harvard chaplain to leadership role continues to stir up controversy

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Greg Epstein, the new president of the Harvard chaplains, is an avowed atheist. His election has led to a perception gap between the Harvard chaplains who voted for him and the general public, which...