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Steven Field elected chair, president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

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Dr. Steven Field, a clinical assistant professor at the New York University School of Medicine and an NYU Langone Health physician, has been elected chairman and president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. The...

NYU: Over half arrested for anti-Israel riots not tied to school

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Less than half of the pro-Hamas protesters arrested at New York University last week after refusing to vacate the campus were members of the academic institution, the university said on Wednesday. Of the 133 protesters...
Avinoam Patt. Credit: Courtesy.

Holocaust scholar tapped to be first director of NYU’s new antisemitism center

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New York University launched a brand-new Center for the Study of Antisemitism in November after receiving two $1 million gifts, the most recent one anonymously. Now it has named professor Avinoam Patt as its director. He has also been...
New York University’s campus in Greenwich Village. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

SJP at NYU law school defends terror, accuses Israel of ‘Zionist grip on media’

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Eleven student groups signed a statement by the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at New York University School of Law that voiced support for Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israelis and touted anti-Israel conspiracy...
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What I’ve learned teaching Jewish texts in the UAE

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In 2011, on one of my first trips to the United Arab Emirates, I sat in on a class taught by then-New York University president John Sexton on law and religion at NYU Abu...
New York University’s campus in Greenwich Village. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

In settlement with US Education Department, NYU to revise its discrimination policy

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New York University has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) following a complaint filed on behalf of a student that cited multiple anti-Semitic incidents on campus, the first...
A view of New York University’s campus in Greenwich Village. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

NYU department co-sponsors anti-Israel speaker, rejects request to host pro-Israel one

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New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute has denied a pro-Israel student’s request to host a Zionist speaker in response to an event it hosted last month with anti-Israel Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat, according to...
A view of New York University’s campus in Greenwich Village. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

NYU student government passes BDS resolution

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The student government at New York University passed a BDS resolution on Thursday evening calling on the university to separate its interests from firms such as Lockheed Martin, General Electric and Caterpillar Inc., which...
The New York University campus next to Washington Square Park. Credit: Travis Grathwell/Flickr.

One week after Pittsburgh synagogue slaughter, BDS resolution introduced at NYU

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In the aftermath of the deadliest attack in American Jewish history, a measure calling on New York University to separate its interests from firms such as Lockheed Martin, General Electric and Caterpillar Inc., which do business...
A view of New York University’s campus in Greenwich Village. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pro-Israel groups urge president of NYU to act on discriminatory statement

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With the academic year about to begin, Israel advocacy groups, including the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB), StandWithUs (SWU) and Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF), wrote a letter on Monday to New York University President...