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News Jewish Campus Groups Grapple With Rape Controversy
(JTA) — Jewish campus groups were ready for the painful national dialogue that took place in the wake of murky rape allegations at the University of Virginia. That’s because organizations like Hillel and historically Jewish Greek houses such as Alpha Epsilon Pi, Zeta Beta Tau and Sigma Delta Tau had been having the conversations for…
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Breaking News Campus Anti-Israel Protests Surge by 114%
More than 75 anti-Israel events have been reported on U.S. college and university campuses this fall, more than twice as many as last year, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. The anti-Israel events have more than doubled in the wake of Israel’s 50-day operation in Gaza over the summer, according to an ADL…
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Opinion Take Sex Assault Probes Off Campus
What happens when institutions or communities don’t want to properly investigate allegations of sexual abuse for fear that it will harm their reputations or expose their powerful? We cry for reform, and in this case, reform means going outside. So U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York introduced the Military Justice Improvement Act earlier this…
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Opinion Confronting Campus Scourge of Anti-Israel Venom
In early October, a number of prominent Jewish studies professors signed a letter stating their opposition to the AMCHA Initiative, a group with the mission of monitoring anti-Semitism at institutions of higher education in America. A study just released by AMCHA indicates, among other findings, that the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University…
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Israel News Statement by Jewish Studies Professors in North America Regarding the Amcha Initiative
We the undersigned are professors of Jewish studies at North American universities. Several of us have also headed programs and centers in Jewish studies. Many of us have worked hard to nurture serious, sustained study of Israeli politics and culture on our home campuses and elsewhere. It is in this latter regard that we call…
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Breaking News 10 Groups Mount Push To Block U.S. Funds From Campus Critics of Israel
Ten organizations have announced a coordinated effort to convince Congress to reform the Higher Education Act to prevent federal funding of anti-American and anti-Israel activity. Congress currently is considering the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, or HEA, which includes the allocation of federal funds to 129 international studies and foreign language centers at universities…
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Breaking News Archeologists Find Gas Chamber at Sobibor Death Camp
An archaeological dig at Sobibor has uncovered the Nazi death camp’s gas chambers. The excavations in Poland have been going on since 2007, and thousands of inmates’ personal items have been found at the site. They include rings, pendants, earrings, jewelry, perfume bottles, medicine cases and food utensils, Yad Vashem said Wednesday. The water well…
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News Planting Seeds of Mideast Peace in Time of War
“My name is Mustafa, and I am from Gaza,” declared the 16-year-old perched, however improbably, on a picnic table near the shore of Pleasant Lake, Maine. His backdrop — just days after sheltering from the Israeli mortars exploding near his home — was New England’s White Mountains. “I lived 20 days in third war. I…
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