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"It was made clear to you that this is not acceptable" on school grounds, the university's rector wrote the young woman.
“This action should not surprise you and is the unfortunate result of Harvard’s failure to comply with simple reporting requirements,” Kristi Noem stated.(JNS)
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If you travel to Beirut to mourn the death of the terrorist leader of Hezbollah, there's no way in hell you should be allowed to keep your visa and stay in America," stated Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).
Columbia was given a March 20th deadline.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The state's top law enforcement officer said that Mahmoud Khalil is "an advocate and legal permanent resident of Palestinian descent."
“Mahmoud Khalil was an individual who was given the privilege of coming to this country,” the White House press secretary said. “He took advantage of that opportunity, of that privilege, by siding with terrorists.”
By Vita Fellig
“The department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety,” stated Linda McMahon, the U.S. education secretary.
By Vita Fellig
“We must not allow the actions of a few interfere with our mission,” said Laura Rosenbury, the college president.
By Vita Fellig
“There’s no crisis here that needs solving except for the dislike people have of the Chassidic community, and that to me is the issue,” said Moshe Krakowski, of Yeshiva University.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Negotiating with pro-terror protestors who are breaking campus policies should be out of the question," stated the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
By Vita Fellig
“This will send a clear message that the harassment of Jewish students and faculty will not be tolerated at Columbia,” said Brian Cohen, executive director of the Columbia Barnard Hillel.
By Izzy Salant
“These events took place in 2023, not 1943,” wrote John Cronan, a U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of New York, in the decision.
How one rabbi is defusing Israel’s greatest challenge.
By Vita Fellig
New York State and City have “engaged in what can be described as ‘lawfare’ against yeshivahs,” a leader in the Bobov Chassidic community told JNS.
The head of my school’s DEI [Diversity, Equity and Inclusion] said that calling for a Final Solution isn’t hate speech.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The nonprofit’s research has “consistently shown a strong correlation between the presence of anti-Zionist faculty and the incidence of behavior targeting Jewish students for harm.”
The program seeks to cultivate tolerance and respect towards Druze tradition and way of life, and to develop the ability to maintain a respectful dialogue with other communities while listening to diverse positions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The uniformed reservists are participating in an officer-training program.
By David Isaac
Hassan Diab was convicted by a French court in 2023 for the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed four.
By Izzy Salant
The Senate majority leader’s staff told administrators at the university to “keep their heads down,” Columbia’s then president wrote to fellow university leaders.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
'We are full of pride. We are really, really full of joy of what happened,' the student is on record saying.
“Brown’s mission doesn’t encompass resolving or adjudicating global conflict,” stated the university’s president and the chancellor of its governing corporation.
By Josh Hasten
Fifty three medical students, 40 of whom are women, were awarded their degrees in a ceremony attended by Israeli President Isaac Herzog and philanthropist Dr. Miriam Adelson.
Starting in Rome, the Yael and Lauder Foundations embarked on a mega-philanthropic partnership to revitalize Jewish education in Europe.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The survey analysis shows how differently Jewish and non-Jewish students experienced the last year on campus and hints at what can be expected in the future,” said co-author Eitan Hersh.
"We want parents and prospective students to run towards our schools and not run away from other schools.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“About time. Actions have consequences, and Columbia should have fired all four of these deans months ago,” stated Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee.
“The last thing a sovereign democracy under siege needs is a public tongue-lashing from the White House,” the senate minority leader said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
An initial inquiry suggested, “at a minimum,” gross negligence, said the superintendent of East Brunswick Public Schools.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A school spokesperson was pleased to be “able to come to a resolution.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The committee is “particularly concerned” that groups promoting Hamas and supporting illegal activities on campuses may be funded by “foreign or domestic sources.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The university appears poised to let the students off mostly without punishment and to listen to a pitch about boycotting Israel.
By David Isaac
A small number of pro-Hamas protesters marched out of the commencement when Jerry Seinfeld was announced. Many jeered the protesters.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Florida senator called for “expedited deportation proceedings.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If you want Hillel removed from campus, you're saying you want all Jews removed from campus.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog denounced the campus demonstrations as antisemitic and called on university administrators to take stronger action to protect Jewish students.
The Pi Kappa Phi men at the University of North Carolina faced off pro-Hamas students.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said "outside agitators" played a key role in pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University.
Irene Khan, U.N. special rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion, lamented what she said was confusion between hate speech, incitement and what is "basically a different view of the situation in Israel"
“Hitler, Hitler go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” more than 100 demonstrators chanted at George Washington University on Friday.q
By David Isaac
The universities have done little to quell the unrest and the protesters have faced little in the way of disciplinary action, while Jewish students remain threatened.
An interview with college students protesters says it all.
"Antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine."
“This isn’t Fallujah, this is Morningside Heights,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, calling for a ban on masks at Columbia University.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“On any campus, threatening Jewish students with violence or glorifying the terror of October 7 is antisemitism,” she said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tartak reported the incident to the campus police who called her an ambulance.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Isra Hirsan is organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“You’re always welcome back to my office,” the Pennsylvania senator told the more than 100 Yeshiva University students who visited him in Washington.
"Israeli researchers are dealing with issues of boycotts and in order to deal with this it is necessary to think outside the box. This is an existential need for these institutions.”
They all face charges of discrimination; at one school, “globalize the intifada” was projected onto a building by Students for Justice in Palestine.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ruth Gottesman, who is part of a prominent Jewish family that has donated to many organizations, including Yeshiva University, is supporting students at YU's former medical school.
“Such attacks on any individual are unacceptable and will not be tolerated from members of the public or our university community,” the university stated.
“Harvard is a ripe target for antisemitism litigation,” said Kenneth Marcus, of the Brandeis Center. "No one should be surprised to see this lawsuit filed."
Context does matter, after all.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The university must reject antisemitism, protect Jewish students and include the Jewish narrative, per a letter sent to university leaders.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some 65% of respondents said funding should be cut from universities that fail to tackle Jew-hatred.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Interest in the Cambridge, Mass. Ivy League school is at a four-year low as it is "embroiled in a national row over how U.S. colleges are handling incidents of antisemitism," Bloomberg reported.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some 10% of surveyed students also thought that PLO leader Yasser Arafat was the first prime minister of Israel.
It's all about the context.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hillel International found fear, sadness among surveyed undergraduates.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
PEN America condemns the decision, saying it is a “shocking overreaction.”
“That these schools can’t call out evil and immorality, I just don’t understand,” one high school principal said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The two groups repeatedly violated university policies,” said Gerald Rosberg, a senior executive vice president at the New York academic institution.
The Gush Etzion council was awarded the National Education Prize last year.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The school, which was recently targeted by Arab gunmen, is one of four new institutions that will prepare Arab students for Israeli high school matriculation.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed “militia” of P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, claimed responsibility for the shooting.
A member of Shimon HaTzadik's "neighborhood committee," Saleh Diab has been arrested numerous times for assaulting Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Marc Lamont Hill's arrival will leave "Jewish students and staff feeling even less safe than they do now,” says New York City Councilman Ari Kagan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The suspended Iran envoy, under investigation for mishandling classified information, is to teach a graduate level course in foreign policy decision making.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This decision is a victory for all religious schools in the state of New Jersey, but it is especially important for Orthodox Jews,” stated Eric Rassbach of the nonprofit firm Becket.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to critics, the Parents Circle "draw[s] an immoral equivalence between terror victims and terrorists."
The shooter was a former student of the school.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The proposed law would ban the display of enemy flags and eject terror-supporting students from academic institutions.
“Incitement to hatred and violence and glorification of terror violate E.U. core values,” tweeted Olivér Várhelyi.
Biden wants the Israeli Supreme Court to have the last word in Israel, but not the US Supreme Court in the US.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"In this ad, 'Orthodox' clearly means rigid, antiquated, monolithic and unevolving. Since Orthodox Jews would reject these adjectives in their self-definition, this line is problematic," said scholar Malka Simkovich.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Jewish middle-school instructor says administrators failed to take seriously a student’s threats and Nazi hate speech.
“I would have stood up and denounced them immediately!” declared the mayor of New York City if he’d been on the commencement stage when the remarks were delivered.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Noam Party leader will return to the government as a deputy minister.
One protester bragged how he got close to Rothman and blew a horn right into his ear until a bodyguard pushed him a way.
There's nothing like a top education for your children.
FM Cohen called on the EU to immediately adopt the Parliament’s decision and immediately stop funding textbooks full of anti-Semitism and incitement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are honored and delighted to welcome Mr. Jack Ma to Tel Aviv University,” says TAU President Ariel Porat
Yeshiva University's Innovation Lab has initiated a new program that offers free support and expertise to local small businesses with the goal of helping them thrive in this challenging economic climate.
By Israel Hayom
The confab will strengthen academic partnerships with the UAE and promote dialogue between Jews and Muslims.
Brandeis improved its MBA rankings, but it and Touro University California dropped elsewhere, while Yeshiva University didn’t even meet the threshold to be ranked.
“The historic achievement of universal scholarships in Florida is just the beginning,” said Maury Litwack, Teach Coalition founder and Orthodox Union managing director of public affairs.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Well-meaning politicians are kindly asked to learn the facts before attacking Jewish education,” responded a Becket Fund vice president.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Everything is aboveboard with the way the Kiryas Joel School District educates Chassidic children with special needs, explains district superintendent Joel Petlin.
The professors at Kingsborough Community College said that the university is punishing them for complaining about campus antisemitism.
The public university’s new online reporting tool for antisemitism also adopts an ‘all lives matter’ approach, critics say.
Netanyahu said that Israel is using artificial intelligence to develop what he called a “cyber iron dome.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“God, or victory, or martyrdom. Forgive me, mother, you're going to be proud of me,” wrote the 13-year-old terrorist who shot 2 people on Saturday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A professor targeting Jewish and Israeli students for adverse treatment is textbook antisemitic discriminatory conduct.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The anti-Israel group accused the course of being “nothing less than the incursion of Israel’s military complex onto the university’s campus.”
44% of Haredi parent don't object to their children learning English, as long as it's after school hours.
In addition, Kish is removing all the specially appointed policy makers from the Education Ministry.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Report from Prizmah shows that once families are in the door, most want to stay in the Jewish day school system.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. government is in violation of the 2018 Taylor Force Act, the plaintiffs contend.
Clinton will be awarded the Haifa U doctorate at New York University.
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