Education
“I think they allowed it to go on too long—the protests, everything,” Jonathan (“Jay”) Sures, one of 26 regents of the public school system, told JNS.
The new school year opens with a teacher shortage and a renewed focus on pupils’ social and emotional resilience.
Karen Paikin Barall told JNS that “the American public has a right to know who is funding our universities, particularly when that funding may influence academic programs, what is taught and who is teaching it.”
The Education Ministry is introducing financial studies and expanding STEM and AI learning as post-Oct. 7 enrollment growth continues in the Gaza border region.
“A swastika is not a harmless doodle or a joke,” the Jewish Federation of Detroit told JNS “It is an enduring symbol of hate and can have a profound impact on Jewish students and families.”
The association says that some Democrats are wavering on backing Israel under party pressure, “but it does not mean that they are not ripe for education and supporting Israel outside of this momentary season.”
“What we found is not the work of a few bad actors,” Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League stated. “It is a structural and cultural failure.”
“Academic freedom and the civil rights of students, faculty members and their families should never be beholden to the purse strings of a foreign government.”
‘The Holocaust cannot be a static discipline that is discussed and forgotten,” said Gideon Taylor of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which is funding the program.
The Macalester College sociology course will explore “the history of the conflict from the rise of Zionism and resistance to it, including both Palestinian resistance and the contemporary voices of dissenting American Jews.”
“Vanderbilt is known, I think, fairly well as a university that welcomes and has a welcoming environment for our Jewish students,” James Kellerhouse, assistant vice chancellor and executive director of operations and engagement for Vanderbilt in New York, told JNS.
The city initiated renovations on JNF property, replacing an illegal UNRWA compound with modern academic and neighborhood facilities.
