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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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Opinion Getting drunk on Purim is dangerous, not a mitzvah
The most dangerous physical threat to our children and grandchildren on university campuses may not be COVID or antisemitism, but something well-intentioned leaders don’t even consider. In the United States, alcohol is a significant factor in deaths and injuries of college students and young professionals, making drinking one of the most dangerous parts of college….
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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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Fast Forward Emerson professor who ‘sarcastically’ gave Nazi salute in class takes leave of absence
A professor at Emerson College in Boston is being investigated after performing a Nazi salute in class last semester. The accused professor, Brian McNeil, told The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson’s student newspaper, that his behavior was meant to parody Nazis, but also acknowledged how his actions could have been “perceived the wrong way.” The incident, which…
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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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Opinion The kids are not all right — and Jewish educators on college campuses know it
Reports about Jewish life on campus often focus either on our laudable collective successes or on experiences of antisemitism. After a decade of working on college campuses with leading Hillel foundations, I believe a lot of good things are happening on campus for Jewish students and that these positives outweigh the challenges. But if you…
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