college campuses

Maud Mandel, the president of Williams College, speaking at the Association of Jewish Studies conference in Boston, Dec. 16, 2018. (Tim Correira)

May 9, 2019, 5:10 am

College president ‘disappointed’ after student council rejects pro-Israel group

Maud Mandel of Williams College says ‘transcript of debate and vote indicate that the decision was made on political grounds’

By JTA

The University of Maryland (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

April 25, 2019, 4:07 pm

University of Maryland student government rejects Israel divestment resolution

Student body votes overwhelmingly to reject Israel divestment at meeting during Passover, when many Jewish students were home for the holiday

By Marcy Oster

DePaul University's Lincoln Park campus (Photo by Kmf164, Wikimedia Commons)

April 25, 2019, 9:55 am

DePaul students demand censure of prof for op-ed backing West Bank annexation

Petition also highlights tweets that signers say show Jason Hill using offensive language against Muslims; Chicago university says it’s committed to academic freedom

By Josefin Dolsten

Palestinian and left-wing Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to United Nations Building in New York Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. The marchers are calling to end all US aid to Israel, end the Occupation and support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) against Israel (AP Photo/David Karp)

From the WebMarch 1, 2019, 3:42 pm

How a private Israeli intel firm spied on US pro-Palestinian activists

Private spy companies employing ex-IDF intelligence soldiers are working to silence BDS proponents on American college campuses, New Yorker reports

Illustrative: Students on orientation at Purchase College, NY, in 2013 (CC BY-SA Kelly Campbell/Wikimedia Commons)

December 11, 2018, 6:49 pm

Nazi-themed posters hung at New York college campus

Authorities may have identified suspect responsible for placards bearing image of Adolf Hitler and swastikas; NY governor ‘disgusted’

By JTA

A sign marks the entrance of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts., October 20, 2010. (Josh Reynolds/AP/File)

November 5, 2018, 4:25 am

For students at Brandeis, vigorous debate about Israeli politics is almost taboo

Many from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict say they prefer to self-censor rather than get backlash from fellow students at the historically Jewish college

By Cathryn J. Prince

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

William Paterson University professor Clyde Magarelli. (Twitter/via JTA)

June 9, 2018, 7:41 am

Are NJ sociology prof’s conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic tropes free speech?

Dr. Clyde Magarelli has been irking pupils for decades, even downplaying how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Now, one student is broadcasting his words on Twitter

By Larry Yudelson

Student organizers of an Israel Independence Day event at New York University, April 19, 2018. They include Adela Cojab, Jenny Labovitz and Esther Bildirici, front row, left to right, and Gabe Hoffman, back row, right. (Josefin Dolsten)

April 24, 2018, 2:01 am

What it’s like to support Israel at NYU

After BDS motion signed last week, one pro-Israel student says ‘animosity’ largely failed to take hold at Manhattan campus, but another says it ‘became ‘cool’ to be anti-Zionist

By Josefin Dolsten

March 23, 2018, 5:52 pm

Akiva Gersh

In college, I was an activist; then I found Shabbat

The day of rest reminds me that changing the world begins with improving myself

A sign at the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. (Jeffrey M. Vinocur/Wikimedia Commons)

February 8, 2018, 10:22 pm

Cornell puts Jewish frat on probation over sexist ‘pig roast’ contest

In contest deemed ‘abhorrent’ by university officials, new members competed to see who could sleep with the heaviest women

By JTA

In this file photo taken on December 5, 2017, Steve Bannon speaks at a campaign event for Republican Senatorial candidate Roy Moore at Oak Hollow Farm in Fairhope, Alabama. (AFP Photo/Getty Images North America/Joe Raedle)

January 26, 2018, 11:44 pm

Faculty, students protest Bannon speaking invite at University of Chicago

School defends invitations to ex-Trump adviser and protesters, citing its ‘commitment to free expression’

By AFP

WUJS participants represented 36 different countries from around the world. (Photo credit: Dana Levinson Steiner)

January 4, 2018, 10:30 am

In Jerusalem, a 94-year-old World Jewish Student Congress rediscovers its voice

The organization that once boasted members such as Freud, Einstein and Chaim Weizmann has fallen into debt and off the world stage. A group of new leaders hopes to change that

By Tracy Frydberg

University of California Berkeley junior Adah Forer speaks to a student in front of a pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus. (Courtesy)

November 30, 2017, 1:26 am

Jewish groups team with security network to protect campuses

‘There was a recognition that conditions required a collective and collaborative approach,’ new director of the Secure Community Network says

By JTA

November 28, 2017, 3:45 pm

Daniel Kosky

Too much anti-Semitism at Nottingham U

‘Boycott Israeli Apartheid’ slogans welcomed me to university, and it didn’t stop there