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University of Chicago students, including Youssef Hasweh, second from left, one of four students the university is withholding degrees from due to their involvement in an anti-Israel encampment, walk out of the university's convocation ceremony, June 1, 2024. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune via AP)
June 2, 2024, 2:09 am
Chicago students walk out of graduation after diplomas withheld for anti-Israel camp
Shouts, boos, calls to ‘Stop Genocide’ briefly disrupt rainy two-hour outdoor ceremony; dozens of students walk out between speeches; demonstration follows official ceremony
By SOPHIA TAREEN
Officers of the Metropolitan Police Department pepper spray anti-Israel demonstrators at George Washington University, early Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Washington. (Sage Russell, GW Hatchet via AP)
May 8, 2024, 8:16 pm
Cops clear anti-Israel encampment, arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor’s hearing canceled
Officials made decision to clear tents after demonstrators ‘gathered improvised weapons’ and were ‘casing’ school buildings with possible intention of occupying them
By AP and ToI Staff
Max Lewis, left, and Ilan Naibryf both served as leaders in the University of Chicago Jewish community. Lewis died after being hit by a stray bullet and Naibryf is missing in the building collapse in Surfside, Florida. (Courtesy of University of Chicago Chabad/ via JTA)
July 7, 2021, 2:17 pm
U of Chicago Jewish student missing in Surfside, another killed by stray bullet
Jews at the school are left reeling as Ilan Naibryf is listed among the missing in the Florida condo collapse and Max Lewis is struck on his way home from an internship
By Ben Sales
Stephen Durchslag has amassed over 4,500 unique Haggadahs from around the world. (Fred Eckhouse/Courtesy of Stephen Durchslag via JTA)
March 26, 2021, 11:18 pm
A peak into the world’s largest private collection of antique Haggadahs
Stephen Durchslag has gifted 4,500 versions of the book that leads Jews through the Passover seder to the University of Chicago
By Gabe Friedman
Norman Golb at work in his University of Chicago office. (Courtesy of the University of Chicago via JTA)
January 22, 2021, 1:41 pm
Norman Golb, pioneering Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish history scholar, dies at 92
Academic, who taught at the University of Chicago, upended study of the scrolls with his thesis that they were authored by multiple sects
By Gabe Friedman
'Great Royal Visit,' March 8, 1929. L-to-r: P.L.O. Guy (above), A. Murray Dryer, David Rockefeller, Geoffrey Shpton, Mary 'Tod' Clarck, Edward DeLoach, Robert Lamon, Abby Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., James Henry Breasted, Harry Parker, unidentified fez-wearer. (courtesy Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)
October 7, 2020, 4:58 pm
Digging at Armageddon: Tumultuous saga of doomed search for Solomon’s Lost City
LISTEN: Author Prof. Eric Cline excavates mounds of archives to paint colorful picture of cast of characters at 1920s-1930s Megiddo dig during field of archaeology’s infancy
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: Early commuters drive as the sun rises over the Chicago skyline Friday, June 30, 2017. (AP Photo/G-Jun Yam)
October 25, 2018, 3:11 pm
Tel Aviv University to partner in new Chicago innovation, entrepreneurship hub
Center will focus on cybersecurity, AI, big data, food security, among other fields of innovation
By Shoshanna Solomon
The Robert and Deborah Aliber Persian Gallery at the University of Chicago. (screen capture: Oriental Museum Virtual Tour, University of Chicago)
February 22, 2018, 2:34 am
​US Supreme Court blocks Hamas bomb victims’ claim to Iran artifacts
Judges rule five US citizens maimed in 1997 Jerusalem bombing can’t use Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to seize items from Chicago museum
By Mark Sherman
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
The Robert and Deborah Aliber Persian Gallery at the University of Chicago. (screen capture: Oriental Museum Virtual Tour, University of Chicago)
December 5, 2017, 5:15 am
US justices cast doubt over Hamas bomb victims’ claim to Iran artifacts
Judges express skepticism that five US citizens maimed in 1997 Jerusalem bombing can use act to seize items from Chicago museums
By AP and ToI Staff
A picture taken on October 20, 2017, shows pro-Islamic State writing on a wall in the recently seized Syrian town of Mayadeen. (AFP Photo/Stringer)
November 25, 2017, 3:03 am
Die Hard for jihadists? IS recruits fresh blood with heroic tales
Researchers say extremist group is targeting Westerners with videos that follow, nearly step-by-step, a screenwriter’s standard blueprint for storytelling
By AP
University of Chicago Divinity School dean Laurie Zoloth (YouTube screenshot)
August 30, 2017, 6:29 am
Orthodox woman is new dean of University of Chicago Divinity School
Laurie Zoloth, 67, is a bioethicist and a scholar of religion and Judaic studies
By JTA
The Robert and Deborah Aliber Persian Gallery at the University of Chicago. (screen capture: Oriental Museum Virtual Tour, University of Chicago)
June 27, 2017, 11:35 pm
US court to decide if Israel terror victims can be paid with Iran artifacts
Supreme Court agrees to hear case over whether antiquities in Chicago can be used as compensation in civil case against Tehran for 1997 Hamas bombing in Jerusalem
By AFP
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. (Jessica Kourkounis, Jogn Sommers II/AFP)
September 3, 2016, 12:43 pm
Poll: Young Americans divided on immigration, border control
Minorities aged 18-30 say Clinton would better deal with illegal immigrants than Trump; more whites trust billionaire to secure border
By Catherine Lucey and EMILY SWANSON
Yonason Goldson
August 31, 2016, 4:07 pm
Yonason Goldson
Fighting political correctness, civilly
On U of Chicago’s policy: The freedom to disagree is what keeps a society — and a college campus — healthy
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