Concerned Cardozo Alumni Campaigning to Block Carter

Posted on: April 9th, 2013

"Neither Cardozo nor YU are honoring Jimmy Carter."

Dershowitz: I Challenge Carter to Human Rights Debate at Cardozo

Posted on: April 8th, 2013

I will come, at my own expense, to debate Jimmy Carter on Carter's own human rights record. If Cardozo will have me, I will come and provide the students, the administration and anyone else that is interested, with a first rate debate about the meaning of human rights and they can decide whether what Jimmy Carter has done, constitutes human rights or human wrongs.

YU’s Law School to Honor Jimmy Carter for ‘Conflict Resolution’

Posted on: April 8th, 2013

The Coalition of Concerned Cardozo Alumni, however, looked at Carter's "lifetime of work" and rather than see something worthy of an award, they saw a record of slandering Israel.

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Israeli Activists Win Victory against BDS in U. of California

Posted on: April 5th, 2013

The student government of the University of California at Riverside has overwhelmingly rescinded a decision to divest from Israel following an appeal from pro-Israel activists. The Associated Student Government’s Student Senate on Wednesday voted 10-2 to cancel the March 6 resolution that called on the school to withdraw funds from companies that did business with [...]

Penn Hillel Provided Platform to Venomous ‘Breaking The Silence’

Posted on: March 29th, 2013

The Hillel board was conned into believing that Breaking the Silence was needed to amplify the tintinnabulation of hatred already ringing across U.S. campuses from such groups as the BDS movement and the annual Israel Apartheid Week hate fiestas.

Obama Boycotting the Knesset and Ariel University

Posted on: March 13th, 2013

This is what presidential contempt feels like. Let's all get used to it.

Harvard Jewish Students Contemptuous of Mock Eviction Notices

Posted on: March 8th, 2013

Even Jewish student leaders expressed their disapproval of what amounts to childish pranks and one-sided information filled with inaccuracies, a welcome change from the past and from the situation at many other campuses.

Liberal Oberlin College: Outbreak of Racist, Anti-Gay, Anti-Semitic Incidents

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, was the first college in the United States to admit women into coeducational classes, and one of the first to admit non-white students. It’s reputation is first and foremost as a liberal school with “progressive values.” But over the past few weeks a string of incidents that attack the sensibilities [...]

Sight unto the Nations: Technion Works to Let the Blind See

Posted on: February 28th, 2013

Technion University researchers have announced they are developing a new process that might be able to restore vision to the blind by using a special projector that works around the damaged retina. In an article in Nature Communications this week, the researchers explained they have developed a light-sensitive protein that is injected into the eyes [...]

Oxford Students Resoundingly Reject BDS Movement

Posted on: February 27th, 2013

Oxford students voted 69 - 10 to defeat a motion that would have required them to support and promote the economic and political anti-Israel warfare method known as the BDS movement.

British MP Storming Out: ‘I Don’t Debate with Israelis’ (Video)

Posted on: February 22nd, 2013

The Israeli-British student said Galloway should be barred from the House of Commons. "He clearly had a problem not because I am Israeli - I'm sure he would have talked to an Israeli Arab, he didn't want to talk to me because I am an Israeli Jew," Aslan-Levy said.

Civil Rights Violations, Lies & Audiotape: B’klyn College Still in Spotlight

Posted on: February 18th, 2013

We are now in a situation where there seems to be no two ways about it - someone is lying, maybe several people. And school officials, both administration representatives as well as faculty members were on the scene - so if the students were unfairly ejected, an apology will hardly suffice.

Frum Law Prof’s Charming Legal Case for Israel

Posted on: February 18th, 2013

Kontorovich says, "international opinion is squarely against Israel, and if international law were a popularity contest, Israel would be voted off the island. But the whole point of international law is to buffer international politics, rather than serve them."

Brooklyn College BDS Event: Just One Example of ‘Hostile Environment’?

Posted on: February 7th, 2013

The letter lays out a litany of concerns regarding the intimidating atmosphere for students within Brooklyn College's political science department

The Frum Student’s Alternative to Yeshiva in Israel

Posted on: February 5th, 2013

A mechina is based on traditional Torah learning, but it also dedicates a significant chunk of its curriculum to developing Torah-based leadership skills and real-life tools outside of the classroom

Brooklyn College Poli-Sci Supporting Academic Boycotts of Israel

Posted on: January 30th, 2013

Ironically, given its promotion of an event that would silence academics, BC's Poli-Sci department is defending its involvement in the event by invoking "academic freedom."

YU Crashes Super Bowl with Its Own Halftime Show

Posted on: January 29th, 2013

Last February, close to 3,000 people tuned in to watch YU's first-ever Torah Halftime Show.

African-American Student Starts Pro-Israel Group in New Orleans

Posted on: January 14th, 2013

The research she did for her paper alarmed her, and Valdary resolved to do what she could to fight Jew-hatred.

Shalem Liberal Arts College Receives Accreditation

Posted on: January 14th, 2013

The model of learning draws from the tradition of like Yale, Columbia, St. John's, Oxford and Cambridge

Birthright Celebrates Bar Mitzvah Year With Jerusalem Party

Posted on: January 9th, 2013

Some 3,000 young Jews from around the world celebrated Birthright Israel's bar mitzvah year with a party in Jerusalem.