(JTA) — In two anti-Semitic incidents involving the same Jewish community center in the British university city of Oxford, perpetrators spread white powder and started a fire outside the building. Talcum powder was flung over the garbage bins at the Chabad Student Centre Wednesday and offensive letters left at the building, the This is Oxforshire daily newspaper…
Bo Rothstein resigned from his endowed professorship in government at Oxford University after learning that his school had been named in honor of a supporter of President Trump who had donated tens of millions of British pounds to the institution. “I’ve never had so much applause in my life,” said Rothstein, a Swedish-Jewish political scientist…
In college, it was considered by the broad range of students who attended our campus Hillel entirely normal and comfortable to share a Jewish communal space amongst Jews of every level of observance and religious orientation – secular and religious, Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, searching and settled Jews, affiliated and unaffiliated, Jews whatever their background….
For the first time, two Israelis have been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, Haaretz reported. Nadav Lidor and Maayan Roichman, both 26-year-old Tel Avivians, are inaugural Israeli recipients of the scholarship, which in the past was closed to Israelis. This year, the program has expanded to include several countries in the Middle…
For a city that has made headlines recently for its anti-Semitism problem, Oxford has a pretty laid back Jewish scene. On a recent Friday night, dozens of recognizably Jewish families and students wearing kippahs were enjoying the afternoon sun as they strolled to one of Oxford’s two synagogues. They converged at a modern building that…
Following a student’s resignation from Oxford University’s Labor Club over alleged anti-Semitism, a lawmaker for the British party will head an inquiry into his claims. Baroness Janet Royall, Labor’s former leader of the House of Lords, the British parliament’s upper house, was appointed Friday to head a fresh investigation into the allegations of Jew-hate at…
Oxford University Press has banned references to pigs and pork in its publications in order to avoid offending Jews and Muslims. “Many of the educational materials we publish in the UK are sold in more than 150 countries, and as such they need to consider a range of cultural differences and sensitivities,” a spokesman for…
Jewish South Africa paid an emotional tribute Sunday to Nelson Mandela — a man they dubbed the rainbow nation’s Joseph for overcoming apartheid to build a future based on reconciliation. Speaking to an overflow crowd of several thousand people in a Johannesburg suburb, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein recounted the Biblical story of Joseph, who overcame…
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