(JTA) — New York University has hired a law firm to investigate whether Michael Steinhardt, a major donor, had inappropriate interactions with its students, faculty and staff. Joan McPhee, who helped lead an investigation of Larry Nassar, the team doctor for the U.S. gymnastics team who last year was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in…
(JTA) — Sheila Katz, a vice president of Hillel International, has been named as the new chief executive officer of the National Council of Jewish Women, succeeding Nancy Kaufman. Katz, 35, will join NCJW this summer after 12 years with Hillel, where she launched MitzVote, a non-partisan voter engagement campaign; co-founded “Ask Big Questions,” a national…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Michael Steinhardt has loomed large for a generation as one of the most important givers to Jewish causes. A number of them bear his name. And this week, The New York Times and ProPublica, the journalism nonprofit, interviewed seven women who said that “Steinhardt asked them to have sex with him, or…
Michael Steinhardt has been a megadonor to Jewish causes for decades. A recent report by ProPublica and The New York Times shows that, throughout his years of giving, he repeatedly sexually harassed women: allegedly propositioning them for sex; requesting that they have sex with other men; commenting crudely on their physiques; and shaming them for…
(JTA) This is a developing story. (JTA) — Michael Steinhardt, the megadonor who helped found Birthright Israel and supports a wide range of Jewish institutions, has been accused of a pattern of propositioning and making sexually inappropriate remarks to women who have approached him as part of their work in Jewish philanthropy or the arts….
I am trying to figure out when fertility became the enemy of feminism. When caring about children and family became a misogynist act. When supporting the institution of marriage as the foundation of a healthy and stable society suddenly became an anti-woman sentiment. Because that’s what I’m hearing in the mistaken attempts to link a…
Stay tuned for an alternative take on this topic from Forward Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner. On Wednesday night, the New York Jewish Week published an article outlining accusations of sexual misbehavior against Jewish billionaire and Taglit-Birthright Israel founder Michael Steinhardt. Some of the accusations are classics of the sexual harassment genre. For example, a lawsuit accused…
(JTA) — Billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt is the subject of an internal investigation by Hillel International: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life for making inappropriate sexual remarks to two female employees, The New York Jewish Week reported. Steinhardt, who was not informed directly about the details of the allegations made against him until Monday, when he…
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