NYU cultural studies department ends relationship with program in Tel Aviv

Jewish National Syndicate / JNS.org Jackson Richman May 3, 2019 NYU cultural studies department ends relationship with program in Tel Aviv “It is time for Jewish parents to vote with their dollars and to take NYU off the list of consideration for their kids to attend. There are plenty of other great schools who aren’t […]

NYU Department Boycotts Tel Aviv Campus, While Defending Ties With Abu Dhabi Campus

The Algemeiner Shiri Moshe May 3, 2019 A department at New York University announced on Thursday that it passed a resolution of non-cooperation with the school’s study-abroad program in Tel Aviv, accusing it of operating “in the shadow of racial, religious, and political profiling.” In a statement, NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (DSCA) […]

The New York Times Must Show It’s Sorry, Not Just Say It

The Algemeiner Carly Gammill May 2, 2019 The New York Times‘ international edition recently published a blatantly antisemitic cartoon, depicting a blind President Trump being led by a dog with the face of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wearing a Star of David collar. Following public outcry denouncing the bigoted and racist nature of this […]

You Should Know… Nathan Altshuler

Baltimore Jewish Times Susan Ingram May 2, 2019 Nathan Altshuler gets around. Born in Brooklyn, the 27-year-old grew up in North Miami Beach, Florida, where he got partially through high school when his parents moved to Baltimore for his father’s job. Once here, he finished up his last two years of high school at Ner […]

Letter to NYU

April 19, 2019 VIA E-Mail ( andrew.hamilton@nyu.edu ) Andrew Hamilton President New York University Office of the President 70 Washington Square South New York, New York 10012 RE: Concern over Students for Justice in Palestine’s President Service Award Dear President Hamilton, I write on behalf of StandWithUs, an international, non-profit Israel education organization. We are […]

Remembering Lori Gilbert-Kaye: ‘She Was a Rainbow’

Jewish Journal Oren Peleg March 1, 2019 A blue-and-white sign inside the Chabad of Poway sanctuary indicates “Maximum Occupancy 696.” On the afternoon of April 29, with friends, family, community members, law enforcement representatives and elected officials gathered to honor Lori Gilbert-Kaye, the lone fatality in the April 27 attack, fire codes were no doubt […]

The Poway Synagogue Shooting is Dividing the Jewish Community of San Diego

Vice News Dexter Thomas & Ani Ucar May 1, 2019 SAN DIEGO — Last Saturday, a 19-year-old white supremacist walked into the Chabad of Poway synagogue and started shooting. On Monday, Laurie Gilbert-Kaye was laid to rest, as her family and an entire community looked on. In some ways, this attack has inspired members of […]

Letter to Michigan

May 2, 2019 VIA EMAIL: presoff@umich.edu , umregents@umich.edu Dr. Mark S. Schlissel, M.D., Ph.D. President University of Michigan 2074 Fleming Administration Building 503 Thompson Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1340 The Regents of the University of Michigan 500 South State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Dear President Schlissel and Honorable Members of University of Michigan Board […]

Pro-Palestinian group tries to stop Jewish students from visiting Israel

Campus Reform Adam Sabes May 1, 2019 A pro-Palestinian group at the University of California, Berkeley demanded that the school’s Hillel chapter end its Birthright trip to Israel. This isn’t the first time IfNotNow has protested Hillel…. A pro-Palestinian student group protested Friday the University of California, Berkeley’s Hillel chapter in an attempt to get […]

CALL TO ACTION: Arkansas Tech must say no to Holocaust Denial

CALL TO ACTION: Arkansas Tech must say no to Holocaust Denial In December, 2018 Arkansas Tech University (ATU) received a $190,000 donation from the estate of a Holocaust denier. Despite being presented with evidence by the Jewish community, the ADL, and numerous scholars of the Holocaust and antisemitism, ATU is refusing to return the money. […]

Jewish and pro-Israel groups criticize back-to-back anti-Semitic cartoons in ‘NY Times’

Jewish National Syndicate / JNS.org Jackson Richman April 29, 2019 Jewish and pro-Israel groups criticize back-to-back anti-Semitic cartoons in ‘NY Times’ “We call on the paper to review and revise its editorial processes so that blatantly anti-Semitic and racist content will not be given a platform by one of the most widely read newspapers in […]

Columbia SJP Calls for Boycotting Pro-Israel Groups on Campus

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler April 29, 2019 Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) published a statement on April 28 advocating for the boycott of all pro-Israel organizations on campus. SJP issued the statement after Columbia’s Students Supporting Israel (SSI) invited SJP and Jewish Voice for Peace to discuss the Israel-Palestinian conflict. SSI also sent […]

Full Senate embraces anti-Semitism bill

Florida Politics Scott Powers 4/29/2019 The Florida Legislature stands united behind measures to address anti-Semitism in Florida’s schools, colleges and universities. The Florida Senate unanimously approved a bill Monday requiring schools to recognize anti-Semitism as a form of discrimination, and to treat anti-Semitic speech and acts as they would racist speech and acts. In addition, […]

Jewish, pro-Israel organizations grieve over Poway Chabad synagogue shooting

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate 4/29/2019 Jewish and pro-Israel organizations expressed solidarity with those directly affected by the shooting during Saturday-morning services at Chabad of Poway in Southern California, where a gunman killed one woman and injured three others, including the synagogue’s rabbi, 57-year-old Yisroel Goldstein, who lost his right index finger in the attack. This latest […]

Florida Senate passes anti-Semitism bill with clear mandate

JNS/ Jewish News Syndicate 4/29/2019 The Florida Senate unanimously passed an anti-Semitism bill previously passed unanimously by the Florida House, which adopts the U.S. State Department definition of anti-Semitism and mandates that discrimination against Jewish people be considered similar to acts of racial discrimination in Florida’s public-education institutions. Passed by a vote of 26-0, the […]

One Story Multiplied by Six Million

The Tower Peggy Shapiro 4/30/2019 On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we gather to remember the Shoah. Although it happened almost 75 years ago, it has left scars on us all and forever blemished humanity. But for me, it is very personal. I was born in a refugee camp in Lansberg, Germany, near the ashes […]

Scheduled during Passover, anti-Israel motion at the University of Maryland fails

The College Fix Daniel Payne 4/25/2019 Part of a series of BDS failures at numerous schools this year Another student government at another university has failed to pass an anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanction measure, adding to the numerous failures that that movement has recently experienced at schools across the country nationwide. A “BDS resolution” […]

South Floridians react to bill prohibiting anti-Semitism in state’s schools

South Florida Sun Sentinel Sergio Carmona 4/26/2019 South Floridians, including Holocaust educators and leaders of Jewish and Israel advocacy organizations, are reacting to the passage of Florida House Bill 741 that would prohibit anti-Semitism in the state’s public schools and universities. The bill, sponsored by State Rep. Randy Fine (R-Palm Bay), was recently approved in […]