Posts Tagged: Eric Fingerhut
Jewish Leaders Plan ‘Emergency Mission’ to Washington, DC to Push US Gov’t for Antisemitism Protections
Amid a record wave of antisemitic attacks and heightened geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, leaders from nearly 100 Jewish communities and over 30 national...
US Lawmakers, Jewish Groups Slam Amnesty Report as ‘Demonization’ of Israel
A leading progressive Congressman and the ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee joined other US lawmakers, Jewish groups and Israeli officials on...
Jewish Umbrella Org Announces $54 Million Initiative to ‘Secure Every Jewish Community’
As American Jewish communities have increasingly been the target of antisemitic harassment and violence over the past year, the Jewish Federations of North America announced...
Hillel at the Crossroads: Accusations of Intimidation in Boston
This article is Part IV of a continuing series. Click here for Part I, Part II and Part III. When one speaks to Eric Fingerhut, the CEO of Hillel...
Hillel at the Crossroads: How Things Broke Down in Boston
This article is Part II two in a continuing series. Click here for Part I. Next in Part III: NEU Hillel Protests "Fear-Based Tactics." Northeastern University Hillel board chairman Sheldon Goldman is incensed...
Jewish Student Umbrella Lauds New Anti-BDS Report Recommending How to Combat ‘One of the Greatest Threats to Academic Freedom’ on Campus
The world's largest Jewish campus organization welcomed a US higher education-reform group's new recommendations for countering boycott and divestment efforts at universities, The Algemeiner has learned. Hillel International president and...
Campus Antisemitism: The Year in Review
This has been an extraordinarily eventful year in the campaign against campus antisemitism, especially from our perspective at the Louis D. Brandeis Center. On the...
Head of World’s Largest Jewish Student Organization: BDS Activists Resorting to Violence on Campus Due to Effectiveness of Pro-Israel Efforts (INTERVIEW)
Anti-Israel campus activists are resorting to violent behavior due to the effectiveness of the pro-Israel community in combating their efforts, the head of the world’s...
Portland State U President Slams ‘Divisive and Ill-Informed’ BDS Divestment Resolution
The upcoming Portland State University (PSU) student government vote on Monday over divestment from companies doing business with the Israeli military is “divisive and ill-informed,” the...
Student Group Calls for End to Intimidation, Harassment of Jewish, Zionist Students Following Violent Anti-Israel Protest at UC Irvine (VIDEO)
Jewish and pro-Israel students across college campuses cannot be allowed “to be intimidated or harassed when they exercise their rights to assemble for student programming,”...
San Francisco State U to Launch Investigation After Jewish Groups Denounce Shout-Down of Jerusalem Mayor’s Speech
The president of San Francisco State University (SFSU) announced on Thursday that the university would launch a “full investigation” into the disruption by anti-Israel protesters...
An Open Letter to Open Hillel
[In the days just before the Messiah] a man’s enemies will be the members of his household …. —Talmud Tractate Sotah 49b (quoting Micah 7.6) At...
J Street U Students March on Hillel
JNS.org - WASHINGTON, DC—On Monday, nearly 500 college students attending the annual J Street conference in America's capital gathered outside the Walter E. Washington...
Hillel President Eric Fingerhut Assails ‘Organized, Global Effort to Delegitimize Israel’ on Campus (INTERVIEW)
2014 is likely to be remembered as an annus horribilis for pro-Israel activists on university campuses across the United States. According to a report by the...
