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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

Penn State University

Penn State University student and friends sport swastikas drawn in marker on their shoulders. leading to condemnation from the university and fellow students. (Change.org via JTA)
June 7, 2020, 11:29 pm
Penn State condemns student for posting photo of girls with swastikas
University criticizes ‘deeply disturbing and sickening’ image, while petition calling for student’s expulsion gains 134,000 signatures
By Marcy Oster
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
An image of Old Main, the main administrative building of Penn State University, located at University Park, seen in May 2014. (Wikimedia commons)
September 7, 2017, 8:36 pm
Penn State introduces kosher food option for campus dining
New dining space will also offer allergy-friendly and halal meals during one-year trial period
By JTA
Journalist Chris Hedges speaks during a lecture in 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)
December 30, 2014, 5:41 am
Penn group nixes speaker who compared Israel, Islamic State
Ex-New York Times Middle East bureau chief says jihadist group’s tactics same as those used to build Jewish state
By JTA
An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)
October 12, 2014, 10:48 pm
Penn State students sentenced for vandalizing Jewish fraternity
Two men painted anti-Semitic graffiti and swastikas on predominantly Jewish house
By JTA
A dormitory at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. (John Phelan/Wikimedia Commons)
December 19, 2013, 2:52 am
Universities quit US academic body over Israel boycott
Brandeis and Penn State Harrisburg withdraw their membership in the American Studies Association, citing its politicization
By Yoel Goldman
Illustrative photo of anti-Semitic graffiti (CC BY-zeeweez, Flickr)
December 10, 2013, 10:31 pm
Penn State students confess to anti-Semitic vandalism
Suspects admit to spray-painting swastikas and incendiary phrases on mostly Jewish fraternity building
By JTA
An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)
November 11, 2013, 12:58 am
Penn State fraternity targeted with swastikas
Anti-Semitic graffiti and sexual images spray-painted on cars, local police say
By JTA and ToI Staff
David-Seth Kirshner
July 31, 2012, 3:17 pm
David-Seth Kirshner
From shuls to locker rooms, stop the silent accomplices
If someone had broken their silence years ago, perhaps my brother would have had the fortitude and hope to pen this piece, instead of me in his memory
Sarah Meretsky, second from right, co-director of the Penn State Chabad, runs a number of programs throughout the year with her husband, Rabbi Nosson Meretsky, for the approximately 4,000 Jewish students on the State College campus. (photo credit: Courtesy Chabad of Penn State/JTA)
July 26, 2012, 12:48 am
Penn State’s Jewish community weighs how to move forward
With Jewish students making up 10% of the university population, a blot on former university president Graham Spanier, a champion of Jewish student causes, is a difficult stigma to overcome
By Josh Lipowsky
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