(JTA) — The office of a Jewish professor at Columbia University was spray painted with anti-Semitic graffiti. Swastikas were spray painted on two walls of the office of Elizabeth Midlarsky, professor of psychology and education, at Columbia Teachers College. The word “YID” also was spray painted on a wall of the office of the professor,…
Two Ivy League universities got called out about their statements addressing the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, as they failed to mention the tragedy was an act of anti-Semitism. The leaders of Columbia University and Dartmouth College shared vague statements with their students earlier this week regarding the shooting, where 11 people were killed…
After a long and grueling election campaign, students at Barnard College, one of the most heavily Jewish schools in the country, voted 64%-36% to ask the college to divest from eight companies that do business in Israel. Students from Jewish Voice for Peace, one of the main backers of the campaign, were understandably jubilant when…
On Wednesday night, Columbia/Barnard Hillel will host a ceremony marking the transition from Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, to Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. Israel Defense Forces veterans will speak about fallen comrades minutes before a big, festive party. Emotions at that moment always run high. This year, though, is sure to be even more…
On March 18, in an email highlighting the group’s upcoming events, the Columbia University College Republicans announced a panel to address “communism and its negative attributes” — using well-known anti-semitic imagery. The image accompanying the announcement depicts a red octopus suspended over the USSR reaching its long tentacles out onto Europe. The severed arms are…
Joey Siegel was against bringing the “alt-right” provocateur Mike Cernovich to Columbia University, but was overruled by his fellow members of the College Republicans student executive board. The fears of Siegel, who was slammed in threatening campus flyers that were plastered across campus, were proved correct when Cernovich drew what one security official described as…
Columbia University is formally investigating students who disrupted a far-right speaker at a College Republicans event last week. Tommy Robinson, a prominent British anti-Islam activist who has called the Quran a “violent and cursed book,” was scheduled to Skype into an event on October 10th, but more than 30 protesters inside the auditorium interrupted his…
In the basement of the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, home of Columbia/Barnard Hillel, filled with students who had gathered after kiddush on Saturday afternoon, a sense of anticipation hung over the room. After many months of preparation, and a long journey beset with many pitfalls and setbacks, the first major event run by…
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