Tag: Hillel
Harvard’s chaplain slanders Israel
Alexander (“Shabbos”) Kestenbaum, the Jewish student activist at Harvard University who gained national prominence for speaking at the Republican convention in July, recently shared how the chaplains at Harvard are falling Jewish students.
On Nov....
SUNY Purchase accused of overlooking Jew-hatred, defiling of religious items
A complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education says the student government association (PSGA) at SUNY Purchase College, part of the State University of New York system, engaged in a campaign of harassment against the...
Pennsylvania students testify in state capital about college antisemitism
Jewish students from Penn State University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania testified last week at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa., as part of a Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee public hearing...
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...
Indiana University Hillel distributes free mezuzah cases to students, faculty
Hillel at Indiana University launched a project to distribute free mezuzah cases on campus as a show of solidarity with the Jewish community against anti-Semitism.
The red mezuzahs, which have a sticker on them that says “I stand...
Latest fliers blaming Jews for COVID show up at Illinois
Students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are the latest to report finding anti-Semitic fliers seeking to tie the Jewish community to the coronavirus pandemic. The papers were found around campus on Sunday.
“This weekend...
Tufts University president announces plans to fight anti-Semitism on campus
Tufts University president Tony Monaco announced that the school will be taking new measures to combat campus anti-Semitism head-on, according to a letter sent to students, faculty and staff on Thursday.
According to the letter, the university...
University of Toronto working group on anti-Semitism comes up short, insist Jewish leaders
The University of Toronto will adopt all the recommendations from its working group on anti-Semitism at the school, but Jewish groups say the recommendations, and the report itself, don’t go nearly far enough to...
American Jews are mostly secure, scared and deeply partisan
If ever there was a time for an opinion survey that would measure “The State of Anti-Semitism in America,” this is just such a moment. Concerns about a rising tide of Jew-hatred seem to...
Survey finds one-third of Jewish college students experienced anti-Semitism
A new national survey conducted for Hillel International and the Anti-Defamation League revealed information about the number of Jewish college students across the United States who personally experienced anti-Semitism on campus during the last...