Education
“Those who put their lives in danger to protect our country should at least get the minimum back,” co-sponsor MK Ariel Kallner tells JNS.
The report says the Massachusetts Teachers Association has “waged an aggressive campaign that has encouraged K-12 teachers to become pro-Palestinian activists and bring anti-Israel propaganda into their classrooms.”
“We Jews are the blue and white in the red, white and blue,” the Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse told attendees of the Jewish Leadership Conference.
It would be “extremely surprising” if the best historical source “forgot or did not know who were the Jewish leaders of this war which devastated the area,” writes Haggai Olshanetsky, a University of Warsaw historian and archeologist.
The former employee is accused of stating, “We don’t work with Jews. They are wealthy and privileged and take care of themselves.”
The new professorship will ensure JTS students “graduate with an appreciation for the complexity and richness of the American Jewish experience,” the chancellor of JTS said.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has “spoken out forcefully against campus antisemitism,” Kenneth Marcus told JNS.
Eight people were arrested after blocking entry to a library at New York University,” which, a spokesman said, “rejects any claims that this is a peaceful protest.”
The ADL, AJC, Federation and Prizmah penned a letter to the National Association of Independent Schools asking the group to apologize for Jew-hatred at a recent event.
They were awarded the prestigious honor despite calls for a boycott of Israel.
The victim, Jonathan Lederer, told JNS that the university hasn’t done enough to keep students like him safe on campus.
A new study has found “continued improvement in textbooks promoting peace, tolerance, and rejecting violence and extremism.”
