Posts Tagged: Jewish students
Searchers Describe Field Where Abducted Israeli Teens’ Bodies Were Found (VIDEO)
In a hole in the ground, alongside a cave, north of Hebron. That's where soldiers of the IDF's Kfir and Maglan and civilian volunteer trackers...
Hillel Letter: J Street U Members Add to ‘Ideas Within Our Tent’
JNS.org - A letter sent to Hillel International colleagues by leaders of the Jewish campus umbrella said Hillel's relationship with J Street will not change...
Jewish Students Report Intimidation as BDS Battle Ignites at University of Michigan
Jewish students reported being intimidated and threatened at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, ahead of a student senate meeting on Tuesday evening, where it will be...
Watchdog: FBI, San Francisco Police Investigating Student Leader After Violent Posts About IDF, Hillel
The FBI and a Joint Terrorism Task Force are investigating a San Francisco student leader who published violent comments about the Israel Defense Forces and...
Forbes Investigative Journalist Rips NYU President Over ‘Vanilla’ Response to ASA Boycott
In a 15,000 word tour-de-force, Forbes Contributing Editor Richard Behar on Tuesday slammed the president of New York University, where he graduated from, in 1982,...
Hillel at 90: The Past, Present, and Future of Campus Activism
JNS.org - When recent rabbinical school graduate Rabbi Benjamin Frankel began a part-time clerical position in 1923 working with students at the University of...
More American Jews Choose to Study Arab World, Results Vary
More Americans than ever are taking up studies of the Arab world and many of them are Jewish, The New York Times reports. While lacking definitive...
New Director of Israel On Campus Coalition Vows to Empower Jewish Students
JNS.org - In a story of "what goes around, comes around" in the pro-Israel world, Jacob Baime will seek to empower Jewish students through...
The Top Ten Responses to Campus Anti-Semitism
Some of us are accustomed to criticizing government and campus leaders when they fail to respond properly to anti-Semitism. But what are these leaders getting right?...
Henry Shaw & Names
What's in a name? My late father had an only sibling called Henry Shaw. We loved our Uncle Hashy as we called him. He was...
‘Anti-Semitic’ Elevator Causes Friction at New York City Apartment Building
A dispute over a "Shabbat-friendly" elevator has deteriorated into a civil rights battle at an Upper West Side apartment building, The New York Daily news...
New York City Council Members Rip Brooklyn College BDS Report
New York City Councilman Lew Fidler has sent a letter to CUNY, ripping into an investigation it conducted of a February BDS (boycott, divestment and...
Brooklyn College Sponsorship of Anti-Israel Event Has Left Jewish Students Feeling ‘Isolated’ and ‘Uncomfortable’
Students at Brooklyn College say that the controversial BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) event aimed at Israel and co-sponsored by the school's Political Science Department...
California Student Board Regrets Resolution’s Procedure, ‘Marginalizing Language’ on Israel
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) representatives to the University of California Student Association (UCSA) board of directors on Nov. 20 expressed regret for several aspects...
