Tag: Jewish students
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....
America’s future depends on Trump’s promise to punish woke universities
Occidental College seemingly waved the white flag last week in its efforts to defend itself against charges of tolerating antisemitism on its Los Angeles campus. The school agreed to a “sweeping settlement” with the Anti-Defamation League...
Ramaz School graduates not headed to Columbia University this fall
Not a single graduate of the Ramaz School, a Jewish college-prep institution in New York City, will head to Columbia University this academic year—something that hasn’t happened in decades.
“For the first time in over 20 years,...
Foxx: Columbia provided criminal protesters a ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’
Columbia University in New York City continues to come in for criticism on charges that it has failed to adequately address an increasingly hostile environment for Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus.
The House’s Education...
Young Jewish Chicagoans excited, apprehensive ahead of Democratic National Convention
With the Democratic National Convention scheduled to take place from Aug. 19 to Aug. 22 in the Windy City, young Jewish Chicagoans told JNS that they worry about potential political unrest around the gathering,...
Mentally, past 10 months have ‘taken a huge toll,’ Jewish students say
Warren Weissbluth, a student at Rice University in Houston studying engineering and entrepreneurship, thinks of himself as “very much a fighter in nature.” At an airport in Greece, an Israeli woman, who noticed his...
‘As if my home turf no longer mine,’ students tell senators about school Jew-hatred
Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.), co-founders and co-chairs of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, heard about Jew-hatred on campus from Columbia University, University of Oregon, University of Oklahoma, Rutgers University, George...
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...
California school district violated Title VI by failing to address antisemitism
A California school system failed to follow the 1964 Civil Rights Act by not protecting Jewish students from antisemitism, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
That office announced on Friday that...
How to help Jewish children around the world be safer at school
While we all watched in horror the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish protests on campuses across America, communal leaders found themselves befuddled about viable solutions: Do we fight back? Encourage students to run away? Confront the aggressors,...