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News Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor praises students who helped oust UPenn’s former president
Gov. Josh Shapiro credited Penn students who helped oust former President Liz Magill, and rejected calls for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war as premature
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Opinion The university presidents were right and American Jews’ moral panic is wrong
Joining a right-wing war on higher education will not make us any safer
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Fast Forward Harvard students involved in pro-Palestine walkout and protest face disciplinary action
Undergrads cited for disruptive activities as university president Claudine Gay faces pressure to resign
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Fast Forward Julie Platt, chair of Jewish federations group, is leading Penn’s board amid leadership transition
Platt’s role on the Penn board means the same Jewish philanthropist and communal leader is on the front lines of two of the most prominent organizations reshaped by Oct. 7 and its aftermath
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Fast Forward Rabbi David Wolpe resigns from Harvard antisemitism committee over president’s ‘painfully inadequate testimony’ on campus antisemitism
Wolpe, who is a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, has built a reputation as one of the country’s most prominent rabbis and Jewish thinkers
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Opinion Calling for genocide is antisemitic. Why couldn’t the president of my alma mater say so?
University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill’s inability to unequivocally condemn antisemitism reflect a broader problem.
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Opinion University presidents waffled in condemning calls for genocide. Jews are on our own as much as ever
To suggest that antisemitic hate speech is problematic only when it violates university policy is a profound failure of leadership
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News ‘Schools I don’t want my kid to set foot on’: For some Jewish families, Oct. 7 upended the college application process
Jewish high school seniors are crossing dream schools off their lists and replacing them with colleges where they believe Jews are welcome
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