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Special Report What it’s really like to be Jewish on a campus ‘hotspot’ of antisemitism
A year at George Washington University shows what is often missed by national groups sounding the alarm over the safety of Jewish students
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Culture At the Harvard of China, something brand nu — a class in Yiddish
At Peking University, students from a variety of majors are learning the alef-beys
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Fast Forward YU can block LGBTQ club for now, Supreme Court rules
A lower court in June ruled that the university's refusal to recognize the student group violated New York City's anti-discrimination law
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Fast Forward A USC student suffered anti-Zionist harassment. Now the Department of Education is hearing her case
A Title VI complaint alleged that the school failed to protect Ritch from harassment
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Books A Pulitzer-winning novel drops the Netanyahus in an American college town
Joshua Cohen's 2021 novel won the 2022 Pulitzer for Fiction.
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Fast Forward Jewish student group analyzes a year of antisemitism, finds concentration in the Northeast
An analysis of antisemitic incidents on college campuses tracked by a Jewish student group last year and released Monday found reports of bigotry split between classical antisemitic tropes and forms of anti-Zionism. Most responses collected for the report, compiled by Jewish on Campus, an undergraduate student-run nonprofit organization that started in July 2020 as an…
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News A USC student tweeted ‘kill every motherf——ing Zionist.’ Zionist faculty are unhappy with USC’s response.
A group of University of Southern California faculty members are demanding the school take action against a Palestinian student who posted several antisemitic tweets, including one saying she wanted “to kill every motherf——-g Zionist.” In an open letter addressed to the university president, provost, and board chairman published Dec. 1, the faculty said a lack…
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News As faculties push petitions critical of Israel, professors push back
Chloe Levian, a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, has only been back on campus a little over a week, but she has already added an additional stressor to her workload: handling anti-Zionism on campus. “Israel’s definitely a divisive topic here. The department statements have just made it very difficult to want to…
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Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
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News School Israel trip turns ‘terrifying’ for LA students attacked by Israeli teens
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Fast Forward The invitation said, ‘No Jews.’ The response from campus officials, at least, was real.
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