Tag: NYU
Rebbetzin Sarah Korn: Countering Anti-Semitism on College Campuses
Rebbetzin Sarah Korn is the co-director of Chabad House Bowery. She runs a student center for downtown Manhattan universities.
NYU Department Co-Sponsors Anti-Israel Speaker, Rejects Request to Host Pro-Israel One
The NYU department “is isolating students who support Israel by adopting and promoting a specific, one-sided narrative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Jewish Student’s Complaint Starts US Probe of NYU Anti-Semitism
“The administration was very much aware of the situation on the ground where Jewish students felt unsafe.”
NYU Student Government Passes BDS Resolution
The final tally, which was conducted by a secret ballot, was 35 votes in favor, 14 against and 14 abstentions. The BDS measure was backed by 51 campus groups and 34 faculty members.
University of Haifa Signs Groundbreaking Deal With Chinese Conglomerate Wahaha
The institutes will select cutting-edge application technologies from advance disciplines that can be industrialized.
Columbia U Rates ‘Worst US College for Campus Anti-Semitism’
In a poll on anti-Semitic incidents on campus, Columbia University has rated as the worst for US Jewish students in 2016.
New Study: Alarming Spike in Campus Anti-Semitism in 2016
In 2016, 14 incidents that restricted Jewish students’ civil rights by suppressing their speech, blocking their movement or hindering their assembly were found on 12 campuses.
Let’s Boycott Hypocrisy
If professors would like to present only their views in a forum, they should go into politics, not teaching.
Civil Rights Groups Urge NYU to Discipline ‘Mock Eviction’ Leafletters
The NYU mock eviction notices raised serious questions about sensitivity for the reasonable concerns of Jewish students.
NYU Latest Site of Anti-Israel Mock Eviction Notices
NYU SJP students crept into a primarily Jewish dorm and shoved propaganda under the doors of the sleeping students.
Students Ask, ‘Where Was The NY Times During The Holocaust?’
Last April, NYU student Emily Harrold embarked on the production of a film exploring why The New York Times under-reported the Holocaust during the 1940s. Now, a little less than a year later, the project has expanded to more than twenty students.
The Disingenuousness Of Divestment
The recent call by NYU's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for TIAA-CREF to divest holdings in targeted companies doing business in Israel is part of a troubling trend that exposes dangerous radicalism on campuses disguised as efforts at achieving social justice.
We’re Losing The Campus Debate
It's been five years since I attended a symposium at Columbia University discussing the David Project's documentary "Columbia Unbecoming," a film that highlighted anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements by faculty in the Middle East Arts Language and Culture MEALC program. The film ignited a debate over the prevalence of anti-Zionism on American campuses and the dangers of advocacy teaching at universities, much of it fueled by Arab funding.
Sefer Torah Presented To NYU Medical Center
The void in the "Mrs. Miriam Lubling Hospitality-Bikur Cholim Room" at the NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan has been filled.