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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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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 Rutgers University apologizes for not communicating support for Palestinian community
The chancellor and provost of Rutgers University-New Brunswick issued an apology Thursday following a May 26 statement condemning the rise in antisemitic violence and hostile sentiments across America. A Wednesday statement from Chancellor Christopher J. Molloy and Provost Francine Conway said recent incidents were greatly concerning and a reminder of “what history has to teach…
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Community The letter some of my rabbinical students wrote shows a lack of empathy—with Jews
This is an open letter from the dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Rabbi Bradley S. Artson. It comes in response to a letter signed by scores of rabbinic and cantorial students at Ziegler and other schools, which the Forward published on May 13. Dear Hevrei,…
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News UCLA anti-Israel resolution reveals rift among students
The undergraduate student-government organization at University of California, Los Angeles has unanimously passed a resolution calling on the UC system to divest from companies that allegedly profit off the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories, prompting UCLA pro-Israel groups to issue a statement saying they were left in the dark about the resolution’s true, anti-Israel…
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Fast Forward Petition to cut ties with Israeli institutions circulates at University of Illinois at Chicago
Students at University of Illinois at Chicago are calling for the university’s School of Public Health (SPH) to cut all ties with Israeli academic institutions. A petition drafted and circulated online by UIC’s Students for Justice for Palestine (SJP) has gathered over 200 signatures in under 48 hours. The petition protests an upcoming virtual lecture…
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News Handbook used by universities to report campus antisemitism replaced by 13-page memo
The U.S. Department of Education is rescinding a 265-page handbook colleges and universities used to report campus antisemitism and other hate crimes, replacing it with a 13-page document. The handbook devotes almost three pages to its “basic” definition of hate crime; the new memo doesn’t explicitly define it at all, but refers the reader to…
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News Their beloved Chabad house destroyed, University of Delaware students vow to rebuild, bigger
Jewish students at the University of Delaware whose Chabad house went up in flames have made their fundraising and rebuilding goals more ambitious after an initial success. In less than a week, their GoFundMe raised more than $500,000 to rebuild what they called the “little blue house,” which was destroyed in a possible act of…
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
