Posts Tagged: colleges Jews
A View From Campus: Universities Are Failing to Protect Debate While Claiming to Defend It
Universities are meant to be spaces where ideas are debated and challenged, but they are also institutions that set the rules for how students participate. That...
Why Vanderbilt Is Getting Jewish Life Right and Others Aren’t
This spring, at Vanderbilt University, more than 600 students gathered for a Passover seder - not in a campus center or dining hall, but on the football...
Campus Frontlines: Professors and Students Continue to Fuel Antisemitism
There may be a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, but on university campuses globally, antisemitism has yet to end. The encampments that took up space...
The Real Threat Is Within: What a New Survey Reveals About Jewish Communal Life
American Jews are facing a storm of external pressures. The past two years have brought a surge in antisemitism; ugly and sometimes violent protests on...
There Is Trouble on Campus as the 2024-2025 Academic Year Ends
The Spring semester has ended with higher education in upheaval. The political and economic relationships with the Federal government are now rapidly changing, with billions...
The Quiet Antisemitism: My Experience as a Jewish College Professor
There are plenty of examples of blatant antisemitism and attacks on Jews that have occurred over the past 10 months. It seems that every day,...
How Low Can Universities Go?
Michelle Obama famously said, “When they go low, we go high.” When it comes to Israel on campus, universities seem to believe “if they go...
Virulent Antisemitism at Florida State University
JNS.org - A Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter has offered yet another astounding defense of antisemitic vitriol -- this time at Florida State...
The One Easy Answer: Blame the Jews
Every year when we come around to reading about Joseph and his brothers, I am reminded of a part of the Yom Kippur Ashkenazi service....
