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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

Chabad on campus

A flyer for a fake party posted online by a former SCAD student included the instructions 'No Jews.' (Screenshot via JTA)
April 27, 2025, 12:31 pm
‘No Jews’ invitation for apparently fake party sparks concern at Georgia college
Savannah College of Art and Design says no evidence of party, person who posted image of leaflet no longer a student after image of flyer circulates on social media
By Grace Gilson
Chabad on Campus shluchot visit the site of the Nova festival massacre in southern Israel on May 30, 2024, and hear testimony from survivors of the October 7 atrocities (Chabad on Campus)
June 4, 2024, 4:25 pm
In Israel, US Chabad women campus emissaries commiserate over their annus horribilis
Some 150 Lubavitch emissaries flew to the Holy Land for their annual convention last week, sharing stories of bravery and pride amid a massive uptick in antisemitism at universities
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
The Harvard campus Hillel House welcomes students into its 'safe space,' in Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, 2023. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
April 28, 2024, 3:42 am
US Jewish campus groups become a haven for students facing post-Oct. 7 hostility
Attendance surges at Hillel, Chabad houses nationwide as students seek refuge from an increasingly unwelcoming atmosphere amid strident, and often antisemitic, anti-Israel protests
By Deena Yellin
A police car drives down the street in Lyon, eastern France, on July 16, 2023. (OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP)
July 27, 2023, 3:03 pm
Two targeted in suspected antisemitic assaults in France, US
13-year-old boy wearing outwardly religious clothing is pushed against wall and threatened in Lyon; attacker pulls tzitzit, makes anti-Jewish remarks to Chabad man in San Diego
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: The campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
February 9, 2022, 7:25 pm
US campus antisemitism survey: University of Vermont had most reported cases in 2021
Report by advocacy group tallies antisemitic incidents in colleges, finds most occurred in person and not online
By Luke Tress
Cornell student Aliza Saunders shows off the supplies she got to celebrate Shabbat on her own. (Courtesy of Cornell Hillel/ via JTA)
August 31, 2020, 3:02 am
‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: US Jewish campus life goes virtual
With many colleges going completely online and others setting tight in-person restrictions, student groups struggle to provide material and psychological support amid the pandemic
By Josefin Dolsten
Screen shot of a broadcast by NBC local affiliate NBC 10 Philadelphia showing an aerial view of fire damage at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. The fire took place on August 26, 2020, and was ruled arson by authorities the following day. (screen capture)
August 27, 2020, 1:37 pm
Officials rule Delaware Chabad center fire an arson
No one hurt in blaze, but damages estimated at $75,000; incident comes after a Chabad center in Oregon caught fire twice last week
By ToI Staff and JTA
Illustrative: An anti-Israel protest at the University of Texas, Austin, in 2009. (photo credit: CC BY monad68, Flickr)
February 25, 2019, 11:56 pm
Left-wing group protests Shabbat speech by ex-IDF soldier at University of Texas
IfNotNow members demonstrate outside Austin campus Chabad; rabbi charges that demonstrators harassed attendees, children
By Marcy Oster
From left: Nesha Ruther, president of SJP at UW-Madison, Henya Matusof, and Rabbi Mendel Matusof, Chabad on campus representatives. (Courtesy Chabad UW-Madison)
March 18, 2018, 6:02 am
The pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel campus leader who is also a regular at Chabad
For students such as Nesha Ruther, co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine at UW-Madison, the apolitical Jewish outreach group is a rare place of Jewish inclusion
By Yaakov Schwartz
An image of Old Main, the main administrative building of Penn State University, located at University Park, seen in May 2014. (Wikimedia commons)
November 21, 2017, 10:33 pm
Four Penn State students charged in menorah vandalism
Suspects caught on camera stealing 9-foot-high candelabrum from Chabad rabbi’s home and leaving it damaged outside Jewish fraternity house
By JTA
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely speaking at New York University, November 7, 2017 (Aleksey Rosenfeld)
November 8, 2017, 4:18 pm
Hillel president apologizes to Hotovely for Princeton slight
At NYU, deputy foreign minister tells Eric Fingerhut that Monday’s surprise cancellation of her speech was ‘unacceptable’
By Raphael Ahren
Tzipi Hotovely speaking at Columbia University on November 2, 2017. (Dor Malka/MFA)
November 6, 2017, 11:10 pm
Princeton Hillel cancels Hotovely speech after dovish Jewish groups protest
Deputy foreign minister to speak at Chabad instead, laments ‘silencing of Israeli democracy,’ after students raise hackles over her hard-right views
By Raphael Ahren
US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after giving final remarks at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem before Trump's departure, May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 29, 2017, 2:13 pm
Settlement leader warns White House that pressuring Netanyahu could topple him
UK Labour leader Corbyn denies honoring Munich attack killer; foreign journalists complain Netanyahu won’t answer questions
By ToI Staff
Jared Kushner and Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi at the Harvard Chabad New York Alumni Reception, June 2013. (Harvard Chabad)
January 27, 2017, 6:37 pm
Jared Kushner’s college rabbi recalls a snow-shoveling student mega-donor
When at Harvard, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser attended services and Shabbat dinner at Chabad house, performed workaday tasks, gave generously, and was ‘like a part of the family’ for Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi
By Ben Sales
Texas A&M University. A view of the main campus, looking north from Kyle Field (CC BY-SA 3.0, Aggie0083, Wikipedia)
October 31, 2016, 7:04 pm
Chabad sign at Texas A&M vandalized, stolen
Incident not being investigated as hate crime, but head of Jewish center says he believes his facility was targeted
By JTA
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