A 19-year-old in Michigan has been charged with a felony after allegedly sending anti-Semitic threats to a man who dated his ex-girlfriend, as well as to the man’s employer, the Hillel Jewish student center at Michigan State University. The threats began in late October, according to the Lansing State Journal, when Jack Hurlbut allegedly told…
Michigan State University reached an agreement with white supremacist Richard Spencer to allow him to hold a speaking event on its property — but it will be in a farmyard barn more than a mile from the main campus. MSU reached an agreement in January with Spencer’s sponsor, Georgia State University student Cameron Padgett, to…
The Michigan State University students were still jet-lagged from their ten-hour flight when news of rockets striking Sderot reached them in Jerusalem. The next morning, June 29 — just the third day of their summer Jewish Studies program in Israel — the students heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaim Israel “ready” for what would soon…
New scientific and academic studies of climate change—its causes, pace, cost, impact—continue to pour out almost daily from institutions around the world. They come at us so fast that it’s hard to keep track—and yet many of them are essential to understanding what’s coming down the pike and what, if anything, can be done about…
Local police have indicated that witness accounts do not corroborate allegations of a hate crime by Michigan State student Zachary Tennen, whose jaw was surgically repaired following a recent assault. Detectives from the East Lansing Police Department who are investigating the incident, which took place at a party on Spartan Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Sunday,…
Michigan police are reportedly refusing to treat as a hate crime an attack in which a Jewish student was set upon by skinhead thugs, spewing hate and stapling his mouth shut. Capt. Jeff Murphy of the East Lansing police told the State News, Michigan State University’s student newspaper, that witnesses did not hear Nazi or…
A Jewish student at Michigan State University was beaten and reportedly had his mouth stapled shut by attackers spewing anti-Semitic hate. Just before the assault, which broke his jaw, Zach Tennen said his attackers asked him if he was Jewish, according to reports. Tennen, 19, a resident of suburban Detroit, said he answered in the…
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