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Elana Stern, of the firm Ropes and Gray, told JNS that “no student and no family should have to experience what Eden and Montana Horwitz have had to experience.”
“This student’s ability to exercise, freely, his religion should not be incompatible with his equally important right to fully participate in residential life at Williams,” Rachel Balaban, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
“No child should have to endure this kind of sustained harassment and exclusion for their religious identity in a public school or any school,” the Anti-Defamation League said.
“We have a state, we have an army and we are capable of standing against anyone who seeks to harm us,” said Yoav Kisch.
A spokesman for the private school told a reporter that the school considers the “definition and accompanying illustrative examples to the extent it may be useful in a particular case.”
“Ohio law prohibits divestment from Israeli investments,” a spokesman for the public school in Athens told JNS.
“It’s a great victory for the First Amendment right to free speech, including the right to draw attention to bigotry and hateful speech,” Paul Eckles, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS. “We commend our client for having the courage to speak out.”
A spokesman for the Ivy told JNS that the school believes being required “to create lists of Jewish faculty and staff, and to provide personal contact information, raises serious privacy and First Amendment concerns.”
The university acted “out of an abundance of caution,” a spokesman told JNS.
The findings of an independent investigation show that “you cannot target Jewish professors and hide behind, ‘This is union activity’ or ‘this is free speech,’” StandWithUs told JNS.
The public school referred JNS to its law dean, who interpreted the lawsuit settlement differently than does the other party.
“Today, we honor the life, legacy and vision of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of blessed memory—one of the most influential Jewish leaders in modern American history,” the U.S. president said.
