David Rubenstein, Baltimore-raised Jewish billionaire, to buy the Orioles
New MLB owner has donated to the Duke Center for Jewish Life and funded the restoration of a Torah saved from Auschwitz
New MLB owner has donated to the Duke Center for Jewish Life and funded the restoration of a Torah saved from Auschwitz
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…
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…
(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…
(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…
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…
Updated 5:00 p.m. A speechwriter for President Trump no longer works at the White House after CNN reported Sunday that he had attended a conference popular with white nationalists. CNN revealed that speechwriter Darren Beattie had been listed as speaking at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club Conference, named after the legendary early 20th-century journalist whose…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic and white supremacist posters were removed from downtown Durham, North Carolina near the Duke University campus. City workers removed the posters on Monday, the local Herald Sun newspaper reported. One of the posters showed a silhouetted man pointing a gun at an image of a bearded man with a long nose, wearing…