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There’s no middle ground in the fight against DEI antisemitism

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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,...
The University of Maryland. Credit: W. Scott McGill/Shutterstock.

Jewish students at the University of Maryland ‘watching our backs a lot’

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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,...
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...
Sally Kornbluth, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Source: YouTube/MIT.

Something very wrong from the top on down

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There is a deep, distressing and rapidly metastasizing rot within American society. And it was profoundly on display last week at the hearing on the House Committee on Education & the Workforce. Harvard president Claudine...

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...
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...
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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...
Robert Kraft, winner of the 2019 Genesis Prize, at the award ceremony in Jerusalem on June 20, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Robert Kraft and Brandeis University team up to respond to antisemitism

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The Robert Kraft Family-Brandeis Collaboration on Antisemitism, a multi-tiered effort aimed at combating hatred of Jews, debuted this month. It is a collaboration of the university in Waltham, Mass.; the Kraft family; and the...

Stanford apologizes for limiting the admission of Jewish students in the 1950s

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Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne on Wednesday publicly apologized for the school’s actions that sought to limit the admission of Jewish students in the 1950s, a discriminatory policy that was revealed in a recently released...