Education
Inspired by Judaism, senior-center resident donates $200,000 to education fund
Stanley Chen’s contribution will support the new Moldaw Residences Employee Education Scholarship Program.
Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) cited a Middle East Forum report that stated “Georgetown University’s various Middle East Studies faculty have a reputation as the most intolerant, ideological, anti-Israel and pro-Islamist in the United States.”
Azrieli Foundation gives $18 million to Yeshiva University
The gift—one of the largest focused on Jewish education the institution has ever received—will help boost undergraduate scholarships.
Alums for Campus Fairness “aims to combat bigotry, and promote honest and respectful debate at universities. Universities should be pillars of truth, academic freedom and open discourse.”
“It is unacceptable that federal funds could be used to implement an academic boycott that directly contravenes the purposes for which these funds have been granted. Area studies programs whose directors or affiliated faculty engage in such behavior should be ineligible to receive or renew Title VI funding.”
“Our group of seniors will be graduating and going outside of their bubble, and need to see what’s out there and how to deal with it. They are seeing how the larger Jewish community is addressing the issue,” said Judaic-studies teacher Yael Weil of Teaneck, N.J.
The agreement with the U.S. Education Department was signed after an investigation following a conference hosted by the Middle East Studies program that featured an anti-Semitic Palestinian rapper and anti-Semitic posters in the university library.
“It’s very positive and encouraging because the issues that are raised are very serious; they’re pervasive and widespread,” said attorney Neal Sher, who filed the complaint on behalf of a former NYU student.
The resolution agreement came after an anti-Semitic and anti-Israel conference in March hosted by the Duke-University of North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies that reportedly used $5,000 of taxpayer funds from the U.S. Education Department.
The FIRST robotics team, which operates under the aegis of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, won a silver medal at the competition that featured 191 teams, representing 191 countries.
That could violate the Clery Act of 1990, which requires colleges that receive federal funding to report crimes on or adjacent to campus.
The room has traveled across North America, welcoming groups as young as 13, in addition to educators, administrators and lay leaders.
