Education
Head of school David Lourie had labeled the fight against Jew-hate a “joke.”
The private college voiced “support for the murder of Jewish Israelis and to end the Jewish state” shortly after Oct. 7, according to professor Karen Fiss.
“It was the highlight of my week,” a University of California student told JNS of Daniel Levine’s course on major Jewish texts.
A school spokesperson was pleased to be “able to come to a resolution.”
“Any university receiving federal funding has a duty to promote equal opportunity to all students and to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.”
“You are free now—free to work for your families and communities … free to help Klal Yisroel … and free to build a better world,” said Alan Kadish, president of the university.
Mark Rienzi, president and CEO of the nonprofit Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said school administrators demonstrated “a profound and illegal failure of leadership.”
The demonstrators barricaded themselves in the office of the president while others formed a human chain outside the building.
“The Arab residents of Jaffa viewed the War of Independence and its results as a nakba (‘catastrophe’) for them,” city hall explained.
Jonathan Sarna, director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at the university, said the school must prepare “as it transitions into a new era where Jews and Jewish institutions feel far less secure than before.”
The gift, the largest in the university’s history, will go toward technological and scientific research.
The House won’t let federal funds be used to “indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism.”
