Education
“A call from the DOJ concentrates the mind like the prospect of a hanging,” said Kenneth L. Marcus, Brandeis Center chairman and a former U.S. assistant secretary of education. “A call from the Office of Civil Rights is more like a heavy-duty laxative.”
“It is clear that while we have made progress in addressing antisemitism, we have more to do in our shared goal of eradicating it in its entirety,” read a statement by the school’s chancellor, Julio Frenk.
“Every single branch of every single institution there didn’t care about us,” Dahlia Levy, a former Scripps College student, told JNS.
“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.
