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A student debt relief activists adjusts their sign after the US Supreme Court stuck down President Biden's student debt relief program on June 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images via AFP)
July 1, 2023, 2:53 am
US Supreme Court steers society sharply to the right
Conservative-majority court shows determination to scrap long-established progressive policies, with rulings against affirmative action, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights
By Paul Handley
The US Supreme Court is seen June 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
June 30, 2023, 9:15 pm
Harvard’s Jewish quotas cited in US Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling
Two justices were sympathetic to group’s argument that demands for diversity were to an extent rooted in a past desire to limit numbers of Jewish students
By Ron Kampeas
A person protests outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, June 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
June 29, 2023, 10:48 pm
US Supreme Court bars affirmative action benefiting minorities in college admissions
Conservative-dominated court rules that race cannot be a factor; Biden ‘strongly disagrees,’ says student bodies should ‘reflect all of America’
By Mark Sherman
A demonstrator participates in a rally in Boston’s Copley Square in support of a lawsuit against Harvard contending that the university discriminates against Asian Americans in admissions, October 14, 2018. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images/via JTA)
October 20, 2018, 5:28 am
Is Harvard capping the number of Asian Americans it admits, as it once did Jews?
Recalling a Jewish quota in place until the ’60s, a lawsuit claims the admissions process targets one group; critics say the case is a conservative bid to repeal affirmative action
By Ben Sales
A tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
October 14, 2018, 3:13 pm
Son of Russian-Jewish immigrants fights affirmative action on behalf of Asians
Cato Institute fellow Ilya Shapiro says race shouldn’t factor into college admissions — and if an October 15 case against Harvard fails, he’ll go all the way to the Supreme Court
By Julie Masis
Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie (Credit Nitzan Zohar: Office of the Spokesperson, Technion)
December 16, 2016, 11:46 am
At Israel’s MIT, education, not affirmative action, triples Arab enrollment
Technion offers hopefuls a 10-month ‘boot camp’ in math, physics, English and Hebrew, funded by Jewish philanthropy
By Dov Lieber
Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich during a Knesset committee meeting, January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 27, 2016, 10:11 pm
‘Illiterate’ Arabs grabbing Israeli university slots, MK claims
During stormy Knesset debate, Betzalel Smotrich demands other lawmakers ‘show me one Arab who passed’ college entrance exam
By ToI Staff
US Congress (photo credit: CC BY-SA Dougtone, Flickr)
December 27, 2012, 12:06 pm
Political showdowns will make 2013 a busy year for US Jews
From Iran’s nuclear program to the fight over gay marriage, Jewish groups are already gearing up for their next big battles
By Ron Kampeas
August 12, 2012, 4:30 pm
ADL defends U. Texas admissions diversity policy
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case, and its eventual ruling could have profound consequences for the future of affirmative action
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