Last week, we were arrested for participating in a sit-in outside the Israeli Consulate. Two days later, we hosted an anti-occupation seder at Harvard Hillel. The same week, young Jews in New York shut down Senator Schumer’s office, Jews in the Twin Cities closed the local offices of the Jewish Community Relations Council, and across…
Harvard senior Tom Waddick says that he received a threatening call from Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen following a prank he helped pulled on Trump in 2015, Boston Magazine reported. Waddick works at the Harvard Lampoon, the university’s comedy magazine, which is known to pull off pranks. The prank against then-candidate Trump began when Waddick, along…
The Hillel at Harvard University is sponsoring a Seder this Passover that is aligned with a protest movement critical of Israel, a move that required the students to position the event carefully in order to hold it under Hillel’s auspices. Scheduled for the evening of April 5, the seventh night of Passover, the festive meal…
(JTA) — Lawrence Bacow has been tapped to be the next president of Harvard University. The university made the announcement in a statement issued on Sunday, The Boston Globe reported. Bacow, a lawyer and economist, is the former longtime president of Tufts University. He will replace Drew Gilpin Faust, who is retiring in June. Bacow…
A new survey of Jewish students at some of America’s most elite universities has found that they rarely experience anti-Semitism but that most have been exposed to anti-Israel hostility. The study, conducted by Brandeis University’s Steinhardt Social Research Institute, surveyed Jewish and non-Jewish students at Brandeis, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University…
Last week, the New York Times revealed that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is investigating a civil rights complaint against Harvard University. The complaint, filed by a coalition of 64 Asian-American organizations in 2015, alleges a pattern of bias against Asian Americans. “Over the last two decades, Asian-American applicants to Harvard University and other Ivy League…
Stephanie Burt (also known as Steph and Stephen), a Jewish professor of English at Harvard, is one of the first out transgender people to serve on the faculty of the prestigious university. She discussed her transition on Facebook in June, and we have adapted it here for a wider reading public. Hi everyone! As many…
The Forward regularly monitors the surge of anti-Semitism across the country and around the world. The mission of this column is not to unduly alarm, but rather to raise awareness of a disturbing trend that, from some vantage points, can prove difficult to spot. In the UK, the 16-year old daughter of a Jewish chaplain…
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