At Duke, pro-Israel Jewish students go ‘on the offense’
Jewish students who support Israel said that an absence of raucous protests had allowed them focus on building support for Israel rather than playing defense
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New MLB owner has donated to the Duke Center for Jewish Life and funded the restoration of a Torah saved from Auschwitz
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Fast Forward Scheduled Duke speaker claims Zionists have ‘an unquenchable thirst’ for Palestinian blood
The long-simmering dispute between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activists on the Duke University campus has boiled over again, this time over paid lectures and expenses for Palestinian activists accused of antisemitism, according to the Duke Chronicle. On March 16, the Duke student senate debated and then passed funding for the speakers at two separate events, a…
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News Do Chabad’s gains on campus compete with or complement Hillel?
On a bright October Sunday morning, several hundred people gathered on the front lawn of a stately red brick building by Duke University’s East Campus. They were there to dedicate Chabad’s $3 million Fleishman House, designed as a spiritually welcoming home away from home for Jewish students. About a mile away, on the campus, stood…
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Fast Forward Duke, UNC Must Fix Pro-Islam Bias In Middle East Program, Government Says
(JTA) — The U.S. Education Department told Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to revise its federally funded Middle East Studies program because of an alleged pro-Islam bias. The assistant secretary for postsecondary education, Robert King, wrote in a letter to university officials last week that programs run by the…
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Fast Forward Department Of Education Probing Anti-Semitism At Anti-Israel College Conference
(JTA) — The U.S. Department of Education will investigate a Middle East conference on Gaza co-sponsored by two North Carolina universities over allegations that it had an anti-Israel bias. Rep. George Holding, R-N.C., called on the department to check into the late March conference co-sponsored by Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill…
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Fast Forward Congressman Calls To Investigate Academic Conference Over ‘Anti-Semitic Song’
A Republican congressman from North Carolina is asking the federal Department of Education to look into a conference hosted by two North Carolina universities that he claims had a “radical anti-Israel bias,” the Raleigh News & Observer reported. In a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Congressman George Holding asks for an investigation into…
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