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The Sephardic rabbi, who died in 1575, is one of history’s most renowned codifiers of Jewish law and writers on Jewish mysticism.
“No apology. No explanation. I believe this is a perfect example of ‘too little, too late,’” the Israeli professor said.
The commencement speaker also said that “both sides have suffered heavy casualties since Oct. 7.”
A spokesperson for the Ivy League school previously said “the University welcomes and embraces the Israeli students.”
“We do not condone positive labels for Adolf Hitler,” stated Kristy Lundstrom, Mount Vernon’s head of schools.
Harvard graduate student Shabbos Kestenbaum told JNS that it’s a “damning indictment” on higher education that “in order to receive equity and justice, we have to resort to the media, to Congress, to lawsuits.”
The administrator did not have the necessary approval for acquiescence to demands by anti-Israel activists.
“We are in the fight of our lifetimes,” said Rabbi Noah Farkas, who leads the Jewish Federation Los Angeles. “It’s going to take all of us.”
The legislators demanded an outline of how to protect Jewish and pro-Israel students from “persecution on college campuses nationwide.”
The heads of the House education and oversight committees asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for reports on “suspicious activity” related to the groups.
The House Education Committee chair told JNS that the university “must answer for its failure to protect Jewish students on its campus.”
“I hear people breaking free from their chains,” Haverford’s president allegedly said when she saw an image of a bulldozer used on Oct. 7.
