Education
The scroll, originally presented to David Ben-Gurion by children at the Jerusalem school that hosted the first KKL-JNF meeting, was on the premises for years, but was only examined recently.
The teams, who spent three years on the project, gathered with officials in Florida to watch the live launch via video from NASA.
“Young Jews don’t need safe space; they need brave space—an understanding of what it means to engage with Israel. But we can’t ask them to be advocates until they know something,” said Rachel Fish, founder of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism.
Jerusalem’s elites had the rare luxury of toilets 2,700 years ago, but poor hygiene and sanitary conditions led to chronic stomach troubles.
MESA’s institutional members must “adhere to federal and state non-discrimination laws and their own institutional non-discrimination and academic freedom protections,” said Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson.
“The long-term damage done by this instructor is impossible to measure at this time in terms of the trauma inflicted on students involved,” said Roz Rothstein, CEO StandWithUs and the daughter of Holocaust survivors.
Jerusalem college to launch Israel’s first nursing master’s degree in English
The new English-language program, which will initially be open to women, is set to launch during the 2022-23 academic year.
The lawyers reminded the administration that it signed a Resolution Agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, “in which it agreed to take certain measures to address allegations of anti-Semitism.”
New Sanhedrin Trail exhibition at the Yigal Allon Center on Kibbutz Ginosar includes 150 rare ancient artifacts from the Israel Antiquities Authority.
The Galilean community, known in Christian writings as the birthplace of Mary Magdalene, was a thriving Jewish town in the Second Temple era.
Michael Levitt, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, said members understood “that censure would set a chilling precedent and impact trustees’ abilities to stand up to hate and discrimination.”
Noah Shack, vice president at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, urged the Toronto District School Board to take “immediate, meaningful and reparative action to fix the rot of anti-Semitism, particularly with its Human Rights Office.”
