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☆ Amid campus protests, some teens and parents reconsider enrollment decisions
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

I was so dead set on going,” said the private school student, who is Jewish. Before police were deployed to campus, pro-Palestinian protesters and Israel supporters were clashing at the school , according to multiple reports. Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images Columbia University students gather for a picket organized by the Student Workers Union (UAW Local 2710) on Monday, April 29. Columbia student Cameron Jones told CNN: "I am Jewish and, to me, Passover symbolizes perseverance and resilience. Stefan Jeremiah/AP Israeli flags are reflected in the sunglasses of a demonstrator in front of Columbia University on April 22.

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☆ Live Updates: Yale Students Arrested as Campus Chaos Spreads
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Alan Blinder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

Some reportedly shouted at Jewish students and made antisemitic statements. Still, some Jewish students who are supporting the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus said they felt solidarity, not a sense of danger, even as they denounced the acts of antisemitism. Image Grant Miner, a Jewish graduate student at Columbia University, says he doesn’t feel unsafe on campus. Jewish students get harassed trying to leave @Columbia’s campus tonight. Image At the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the Columbia campus, tents were crowded together Sunday night.

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☆ Tensions are so high at Columbia ahead of Passover that all classes will be virtual today
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus that have raised safety concerns, have announced all classes will be virtual on Monday as Passover begins. Shafik has faced new calls for her resignation, and a rabbi linked to the university even urged Jewish students to stay home due to concerns about their safety. The crisis at Columbia amounts to a massive test for Shafik, who took the helm of the university less than a year ago. “It is crystal clear that Columbia University -previously a beacon of academic excellence founded by Alexander Hamilton - needs new leadership,” Stefanik said in a statement on Sunday. As Passover begins Monday, Jewish student organizations have increased security for their upcoming events and services.

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☆ Co-Chair of Harvard Antisemitism Task Force Resigns
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Anemona Hartocollis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The co-chair of a task force set up by Harvard University to combat antisemitism resigned on Sunday, the second high-profile resignation in the university’s efforts to address complaints that Jewish students have felt increasingly uncomfortable on campus since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7. “Basically her conclusion is that she didn’t feel confident or satisfied that she could lead and influence this process in a way that made sense to her,” said Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi of Harvard Chabad, a Jewish campus organization. He said that he had spoken with several people with knowledge of Dr. Sadun’s thinking. A nationally prominent rabbi, David Wolpe, resigned from a previous antisemitism advisory committee in early December, after widely criticized testimony about campus antisemitism before Congress by the former Harvard president, Claudine Gay. “Both events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony reinforced the idea that I cannot make the sort of difference I had hoped,” he wrote on X at the time.

Persons: Raffaella, ”, Hirschy Zarchi, David Wolpe, Claudine Gay Organizations: Harvard University, Harvard

☆ Alan Garber is Harvard's interim president after Claudine Gay's resignation. Here's what we know about him.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-03 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewFollowing Harvard President Claudine Gay's resignation Tuesday, the prestigious university announced its current provost will take on the role of interim president as the search begins for a new leader. Alan M. Garber, an economist and physician, has served as Harvard's provost and professor of economics, public policy, and healthcare policy for over 12 years. AdvertisementSince joining Harvard's faculty in 2011, Garber has been involved in Jewish clubs and events on campus, including Harvard Chabad and Hillel. Garber's interim stint as Harvard President comes after weeks of controversy surrounding the school's now-former president, Claudine Gay. "It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president," Gay wrote in her resignation letter.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Argentina's right-wing President-elect Javier Milei will meet with President Joe Biden's national security adviser on Tuesday in Washington, according to the White House. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday that Milei will meet with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and other administration officials. The Treasury Department said in a statement that Milei's economic policy advisers will also meet with senior Treasury Officials on Tuesday. That meeting is expected to focus on the incoming Milei administration's economic policy priorities. Argentina’s president-elect has said he wants to move Argentina’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, emulating a move made by Trump.

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☆ Rabbis From Across the Globe Flock to New York for Prayer — and Hope
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Sarah Maslin Nir | More About Sarah Maslin Nir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The rabbis came from Israel and Ukraine, from Azerbaijan and France, from Thailand and farther still, as thousands of Jews filed into a graveyard in Queens under a sea of black hats. The roughly 6,500 orthodox rabbis, in New York City for an annual conference, arrived in a city convulsed by protests over the war between Israel and Hamas. “We are losing everything we have,” Rabbi Avraham Wolff, the chief Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi of Odesa, Ukraine, said in Hebrew. And just before he left for New York, Russian rockets fell on Odesa. “For them I have to be strong.”He added, “If I have to cry, I do it under my blankets.”

Persons: —, Avraham Wolff, “, ” Organizations: Lubavitch, Hamas Locations: Israel, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, France, Thailand, Queens, New York City, Odesa, New York, Russian

Bowman, Lee, Omar and Tlaib also were among the 17 sponsors of Bush’s resolution asking the Biden administration to call for a ceasefire. Challenges to Bush and the others were possible even before the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 or Israel’s subsequent attack on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It is unfortunate, Andrabi said, that the House Democratic leadership has not taken a stronger stance against AIPAC’s efforts to knock off rank-and-file Democrats. It remains unclear whether House Democrats will help incumbents fend off primary challengers through campaign fundraising arms. Before Oct. 7, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., issued statements of support for Omar and others, saying he will support the reelection of every House Democratic incumbent, regardless of ideology.

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☆ Rabbi Says He Gave Thanks During Service for Two Hostages' Release
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein of the Chabad of Evanston, near Chicago, where Judith Raanan is a community member, said he gave thanks during service Saturday that she and her daughter Natalie were safe after Hamas freed the two hostages from captivity in Gaza. The past two weeks have been “beyond horrific,” he said. The community’s joy over the Raanans’ release has been tempered by the knowledge that others are still being held captive. “A full celebration can’t come until all the hostages are free,” he said.

Persons: Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, Judith Raanan, Natalie, ” Locations: Evanston, Chicago, Gaza

☆ Grieving and on edge, US Jews, Muslims seek solace as Hamas-Israel war rages
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Sharon Bernstein | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Friday services, highlighted by the main weekly prayers for Muslims and the start of the Jewish Sabbath at sundown, were the first since the massacre. Larry Mead, vice president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, said, "We are seeing the Jewish community is very apprehensive. "We're not going to cancel Shabbat," said Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis. "And meanwhile, hundreds of innocent Palestinians are also losing their lives, trapped in Gaza as the war is just beginning." Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago CAIR chapter, said on Facebook he had also been talking with Jewish counterparts in the region, and took hope in the connections made.

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Jews in communities far from Israel gathered at synagogues this weekend for their first Shabbat services since Hamas militants attacked Israel, igniting an ongoing war. PITTSBURGH RABBI SAYS HAMAS ATTACK RESURFACES GENERATIONS OF TRAUMA FOR JEWISH PEOPLEThe deadly Hamas attack is not just another geopolitical event for Jewish people, explained one U.S. rabbi. It is drudging up generations of visceral trauma, especially in Pittsburgh – the city scarred by the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. “More Jews were killed last Shabbat … than on any other day since the Holocaust,” said Rabbi Daniel Fellman of Temple Sinai, during the first service following the violence in Israel. “It isn’t that Hamas wants the destruction of Israel.

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☆ Stanford suspends lecturer accused of making his Jewish students stand in a corner and calling Israelis 'colonizers'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The lecturer is alleged to have singled out Jewish students based on their "backgrounds and identities." AdvertisementAdvertisementStanford University has suspended a lecturer following reports that he directed Jewish students in his class to stand in the corner and described Israelis as 'colonizers.' "'He then asked Jewish students to raise their hands,' separated those students from their belongings, and said he was simulating what Jews were doing to Palestinians,", Cohen told the Chronicle. In a statement, Stanford University said: "Without prejudging the matter, this report is a cause for serious concern. Cohen, Mandelshtam, and Stanford University did not immediately respond to a request by Insider for comment.

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☆ Illinois Mother and Daughter Visiting Israel Feared to Be Among Hostages
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Family members of Judith Raanan and her teenage daughter Natalie believe the two were taken hostage when Hamas militants attacked Nahal Oz, a kibbutz close to Gaza where they were visiting friends and family, said Meir Hecht, a rabbi at Chabad of Evanston, where Judith is a congregant. “The family though is quite frustrated by the fact that they don’t even have any confirmation of the whereabouts of Judith and Natalie, and the information coming out is just so slow,” Hecht said. Both are dual-citizens of the U.S. and Israel, he said.

Persons: Judith Raanan, Natalie, Nahal Oz, Meir Hecht, Judith, ” Hecht Locations: Gaza, Chabad, Evanston, Israel

☆ Orthodox Men Dominate Mayor Adams’s New Jewish Advisory Council
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Dana Rubinstein | More About Dana Rubinstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Schumer declined to comment. The dispute comes just a week after Mr. Adams got into a verbal altercation with a Jewish housing activist whose family fled the Holocaust, and whom Mr. Adams compared to a plantation owner. Many of the Jewish leaders now criticizing him are of a progressive bent, and Mr. Adams is not popular with progressives. A City Hall spokeswoman noted that within Orthodox ranks, there is a great deal of diversity — there are both modern Orthodox, and Jews associated with the Lubavitch movement, for example. “This esteemed council comprises a diverse assembly of Jewish men and women hailing from various religious and cultural backgrounds, including Chabad, Conservative, Hasidic, nondenominational, Modern Orthodox, Reform, Sephardic, and Yeshiva Orthodox affiliations,” said the spokeswoman for the mayor.

Persons: Beth Elohim, Chuck Schumer, Nadler, Ruth Messinger, David Saperstein, Schumer, Adams, ” Organizations: Jewish World Service, Manhattan, Hall, Lubavitch, Conservative, Yeshiva Orthodox Locations: Brooklyn, Manhattan, New York

CNN —A glistening, curved building of blue tiles and panels in metallic hues, the Pears Jewish Campus (PJC) will be Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural center when it opens its doors in Berlin on Sunday. The "Tree of Life" light installation in the entrance is reflected in the ceiling of the Pears Jewish Campus. Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, right, and artist Tobo, left, spray paint on a graffiti wall on the campus. When he met Tchoban a few years ago, he told the architect of his dream to have a Jewish educational center. “(The PJC) is a new stage of the 1,700 (year) history of Jewish life in Germany,” he said.

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☆ How Hasidic Schools Reaped a Windfall of Special Education Funding
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Brian M. Rosenthal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

About 80 percent of requests for special education teacher support services last year came from the predominantly Hasidic and Orthodox districts, records show. But in Hasidic areas, more than a dozen parents told The Times that religious schools were driving the surge, including by paying for the lawyers who represent parents at hearings. Most parents spoke on condition of anonymity because openly criticizing Hasidic leaders can lead to being shunned by family and friends. Five hearing officers told The Times that in proceedings involving Hasidic children, some parents have not seemed to know what they were requesting, or why. “Please can you have her medical doctor write a prescription stating diagnosis of F84.0,” the email said.

Organizations: Times, Chabad Girls Academy, The Times Locations: Crown Heights

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