Posts Tagged: Shabbos Kestenbaum
J.D. Vance Addresses Republican Jewish Coalition Amid Tense Relations With Jewish Community, Draws Mixed Reviews
As he lays the groundwork for his expected 2028 presidential campaign, Vice President J.D. Vance delivered an address at a closed-door meeting of the Republican...
Shabbos Kestenbaum: The New Encampments
The encampments have returned. At Smith and Occidental Colleges, the ugliest form of campus bigotry since the 2024 Tentifada is back. The 2023-2024 academic year saw an...
Shabbos Kestenbaum: Administrators Have a Duty to Protect Jewish Students and Continue to Fail
Across the country, we're watching the same play staged, with the same script. Earlier this month, students at Ohio University passed a BDS referendum. Last...
Shabbos Kestenbaum: We Must Fight Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Hate in K-12 Classrooms, Not Just Colleges
When I sued Harvard for antisemitic discrimination, I thought the institutional hatred was confined to elite universities, places where free inquiry had given way to...
White House Religious Liberty Panel Member Decries ‘Zionist Supremacy,’ Vows Not to Resign Despite Backlash
Carrie Prejean Boller, a member of the White House Religious Liberty Commission, has vowed to combat so-called "Zionist supremacy" in the United States, sparking fresh...
Trump Administration to Review $9 Billion in Harvard Federal Funding
The Trump administration is reviewing $9 billion worth of federal grants and contracts awarded to Harvard University, jeopardizing a substantial source of the school's income...
Ivy League Schools Score Mediocre Grades in New ADL Campus Report Card
Ivy League institutions launched mediocre policy responses to rising anti-Jewish hatred during the 2023-2024 academic year, according to the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Campus Antisemitism Report...
Federal Judge Dismisses Antisemitism Lawsuit Against Harvard University
Harvard University has secured a major legal victory against one of the many lawsuits it has faced over its alleged mismanagement of campus antisemitism after...
Trump Administration Announces Investigations of Five Colleges for Antisemitism
The United States Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has launched what stands to be a series of exhaustive federal investigations of antisemitism...
US Justice Department Forms Antisemitism Task Force Following Trump Executive Order
The US Department of Justice announced on Monday that it is has created a "multi-agency" Task Force to Combat Antisemitism to fulfill an executive order...
Harvard University Settles Antisemitism Lawsuits, Promises to ‘Combat Antisemitism’
Harvard University has settled two antisemitism lawsuits, which were merged by a federal judge in November 2024, that blighted its reputation while feeding an impression...
Harvard Chaplains Omit Antisemitism From Statement on Antisemitic Incident
Harvard University's Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life is being criticized by a rising Jewish civil rights activist for omitting any mention...
Harvard Antisemitism Lawsuit Cleared to Proceed to Discovery Phase
A lawsuit accusing Harvard University of ignoring antisemitism has been cleared to proceed to discovery, a phase of the case which may unearth damaging revelations...
US Federal Judge Tosses Harvard Motion to Dismiss Antisemitism Lawsuit
A US federal judge has "in part" denied Harvard University's motion to dismiss a lawsuit accusing school officials of failing to respond to a slew...
