Education
“You’re giving people the opportunity to just focus on their finals, and it’s really helpful,” a Yeshiva University student said.
The strengthened advocacy efforts of the campus leaders “will shift the narrative and support Israel on a wider scale,” said Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.
“It’s very important to note that these resolutions are agreements and not orders from a court,” the Deborah Project told JNS.
“As long as the struggle continues in Gaza, it will continue globally, on our campus and in our streets,” the student group said in a statement.
Professor Joseph Massad called the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 “astounding” and “awesome.”
“CUNY Hunter’s failure to protect its Jewish community underscores a deeply troubling systemic issue,” according to the Lawfare Project.
The U.S. Department of Education’s review of the roughly two dozen complaints made against the school “raised concerns that university practices did not appear designed to remedy any hostile environment.”
After reviewing the harassment complaints from the campuses in its system, the University of California will submit a plan to “identify responsive steps” for the U.S. Department of Education’s approval.
“It is unacceptable and has no place on college campuses or in our country,” the New Jersey congressman said in a statement.
“The less money we can spend on paying security guards, we can then spend more on educating our students,” Yoni Schwab, assistant head of Manhattan’s Shefa School, told JNS.
“By convening at this time, you are excluding a segment of our community from participating in an important public forum,” Alderman Debra Silverstein wrote.
The district’s compliance ensures “Jewish students, like all students, can learn in an environment free from discriminatory harassment,” the U.S. Education Department’s assistant secretary of civil rights said.
