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Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt is the columns editor and editor of the JNS Wire.

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, has suggested that Jews take on an extra mitzvah in the merit of the hostages.
“When Jewish students feel they cannot express their support of the Jewish homeland, that’s unsafe,” says Jonah Fried, an international student in McGill’s Honors program and a CAMERA Fellow on Campus.
Steven Salaita is scheduled to be keynote speaker at the 2022 Graduate and Professional Student Senate Research Symposium; he was removed from his tenured position at the University of Illinois in 2014 after a series of anti-Semitic tweets were discovered.
The second-largest city in Ukraine has been the site of bombardments in the last few weeks.
Several principals have said they are beefing up educational programs on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. And while that’s a good first step, some feel more needs to be done.
Campaign Against Antisemitism survey also finds that 43% of British adults agree with at least one anti-Semitic statement posed to them by researchers.
“People did not believe in their wildest dreams that such a thing would happen. That in 2022, we are going to talk about a full invasion and all-out bombardment of cities. This is literally coming out of 1941,” says Rabbi Yechiel Shlomo Levitansky.
“Campuses today are as politically charged and polarized as I’ve ever seen them, with zero tolerance for individuals whose identities, beliefs or opinions run afoul of dominant campus ideologies,” said Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of the AMCHA Initiative.
At Valley Park Middle School, a student in an 8th-grade class shouted “Heil Hitler” from his desk as two other students stood on a filing cabinet and performed a Nazi salute.