Education
“Many college and university presidents took little or no credible action,” stated Craig Trainor, an acting assistant U.S. secretary of education.
Sixty-four percent of the 16,000 pupils evacuated are now back in their original schools.
Housing, education issues to be addressed.
“To the Jewish students listening, do not relent or give in,” the nominee for U.S. envoy to the United Nations told attendees of the group’s summit.
“Disrupting classes and defacing buildings to intimidate and divide our community is not academic exploration,” Laura Rosenbury, the college’s president, wrote in an op-ed.
“It’s a crisis threatening the safety and dignity of Jewish students,” Jacob Baime, CEO of ICC, told JNS.
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) said these efforts “bring much-needed attention to the plight of Jewish students across our country.”
“This job should never have been posted in the first place,” the American Jewish Committee told JNS.
“There’s no crisis here that needs solving except for the dislike people have of the Chassidic community, and that to me is the issue,” Moshe Krakowski, of Yeshiva University, told JNS.
“There is not one iota of the union having done this because it was the right thing to do,” Jeffrey Lax, a CUNY law professor, told JNS.
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“From rampant antisemitism to plummeting test scores to the exploitation of women’s sports, it’s clear the current education bureaucracy is not putting students first,” stated Rep. Tim Walberg.
“This will send a clear message that the harassment of Jewish students and faculty will not be tolerated at Columbia,” Brian Cohen, executive director of the Columbia Barnard Hillel, told JNS.
