By Tibbi Singer
Published at Jewish Business News. It began last year with an announcement by Israel’s Ministry of Education, of a pilot study using digitally converted books and other teaching materials, which students would access with their tablets. Legally, teaching with tablets in Israeli schools is contingent on parental consent, especially since it’s the parents who were […]
By Tibbi Singer
UK schools that are found to be ‘indoctrinating pupils about gay people’ will face closing under new rules designed to promote ‘British values,’ the British Government confirmed Monday.
"Get out the Vote in NY: Vote YES for the Smart Schools Bonds Act on Nov. 4"
ADL reports big jump in anti-Israel campus activity, other experts say it's far greater than the report states.
By JTA
Student groups hosted at least 374 anti-Israel events during the 2013-2014 academic year, with about 40 percent of them focused on how to initiate Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns on campus.
Freedom of speech does not protect "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater.” – U.S. Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1919.
By Tibbi Singer
Jewish schoolgirls were traumatized by official UK school inspectors who asked very inappropriate sex-related questions which you don't ask 9 year old religious girls.
By JTA
Two Penn State students who pleaded guilty to spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a mostly Jewish fraternity house were sentenced to community service and probation. Eric Hyland, 20, was sentenced last week in Centre County Court to 200 hours of community service and two years’ probation, and was ordered to pay $6,000 restitution. Last month, Hayden […]
American Jewish students are providing anti-Semites with their best weapon – fear.
American university campuses have become fertile ground for seeds of evil.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Letter of protest charges SJP with “harassing and intimidating Jewish students.”
The soft-glove approach to campus anti-Zionists is more like a pat on the back.
Arabs once again prove that in the end, they cannot make peace with a Jew.
An eight year old boy was struck and killed in a parking lot by a school bus Tuesday at Kibbutz Kfar Menachem.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Despite the vote's difficult timing for observant Jews, a number of pro-Israel groups also turned out to support CUNY students and faculty who opposed the resolution.
By JTA
Free speech on on the Ohio U. campus is restricted to anti-Zionists.
A Michigan high school stopped a military dad from entering the building because his uniform "might offend" some students.
A govt-funded "peace forum" at Helsinki U featured Israel-hating Amira Hass and Jamal Zakhala.
By JTA
There still is hope for intelligent life on the anti-Israel campuses.
Ohio University student creates tasteless video insulting people dying of incurable disease and promoting BDS.
College students have been given a gift by the AMCHA Initiative: a tool to see if a certain professor is biased against Israel.
Sept. 1 is a spectacularly important day in Israel.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“I know that you spent your vacation doing things not according to what you planned," the prime minister told students in southern Israel.
By JTA
If Israel would just not exists, and if Jews would stop being Jewish, there would be no anti-Semitism in the world.
Neither, rain, nor sleet, snow nor Hamas can keep Apple co-founder Wozniak from biting into Israel.
Temple University's SJP claims the pro-Israel Jewish student harassed and provoked them into assaulting him.
"My Zionism" is a project to energize American youth about Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people.
Most US study abroad in Israel programs are going forward despite the summer's violence.
"Fields of Exile" provides a glimpse into the horrors of academic anti-Israelism, experienced by one firmly rooted in the left.
By JTA
Wave of anti-Semitic graffiti, physical attacks spreads, this time to University of Oregon
With 20,000 children living in Eretz Yisroel’s periphery, where regular school bus service is non-existent and private transportation impossible due to economic short-comings within almost all of the children’s families, Chinuch Atzmai has been providing regular school bus and mini-bus services to 269 communities across the country.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Group behind offensive flyers, Students for Justice in Palestine, has already been suspended by several universities
By JTA
“We also wanted to strengthen the settlers in Judea and Samaria, and express appreciation and gratitude for their pioneering spirit, their everyday Zionism.”
'The problem with Middle East scholarship? Edward Said is treated like a guru and hero and Fouad Ajami isn't.'
By Rachel Levy
Arab media are salivating over Jewish squabbles about internal Israeli divisions on policy reported by wire services.
Someone scammed California taxpayers, using their money for faculty meet-ups with terrorists.
The financially troubled Einstein College of Medicine will have Montefiore as its key financial manager; YU will continue granting the degrees.
Middle school students taunt Jewish classmate; goal is to put Jews into army camp 'until disposed of
By JTA
DePaul University’s student body voted in a referendum to approve a divestment resolution targeting Israel. The vote followed a Jewish Press report indicating that Jewish students at the university have felt unsafe on campus since the anti-Semitic Students for a Just Peace in Palestine group introduced the boycott issue to campus discourse. The student government ballot […]
By Paul Miller
A Jewish DePaul student said, 'I have to defend myself, my Judaism, my pride in Israel every day; it’s exhausting.'
The UCLA judicial board handed Students for Justice in Palestine the latest in a string of defeats.
Allow Chloé to help you and those you know how to stop punishing truth and rewarding intimidation.
By JTA
The heads of UCLA and the University of California system criticized a student-led pledge that urged candidates for student government to refuse trips to Israel sponsored by certain pro-Israel groups. In a statement emailed Friday to students, staff and faculty, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said the pledge was protected speech under the First Amendment, but added that “just because […]
Just because speech is constitutionally protected doesn’t mean that it is wise, fair or productive.
Neither of the two women who were to receive honorary degrees from Brandeis on Sunday will be there.
The SJP is emboldened while the grown-ups cower in the corner, avoiding the wrath of the troublemakers.
Orange County campus has been hotbed of Jewish-Muslim tension for years, since Muslim students prevented Israel's ambassador from speaking
Community officials say Yom HaAtzma'ut celebration will be 'non-political', but Bay Area remains hub of pro-Palestinian activity
The NYU mock eviction notices raised serious questions about sensitivity for the reasonable concerns of Jewish students.
A university lecturer has called on administrators to protect Jewish students on campus
"This is the worst nightmare for any Jewish college student."
By JTA
The Graduate and Professional Student Association at the University of New Mexico passed a non-binding resolution on Saturday calling for the university to divest from companies that operate in Judea and Samaria. The resolution calls on the university to divest from companies that “directly profit from the ongoing violations of international law and human rights, […]
NYU SJP students crept into a primarily Jewish dorm and shoved propaganda under the doors of the sleeping students.
By JTA
Northeastern University has provisionally reinstated the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on campus. The SJP chapter will remain on probation through January 2015, according to a notification letter from Dr. Laura A. Wankel, the university’s vice president for student affairs. Students for Justice in Palestine was suspended from campus on March 7 for at […]
By JTA
Closed-minded liberal sophomoics think that anyone against Ground One Mosque and for profiling possible terrorists is a racist.
Hirsi Ali's critics wanted her silenced; Brandeis granted their wish.
Brandeis buckled to those who embrace diversity and tolerance only of their own views.
The student union of Ryerson University in Toronto voted to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aimed at Israel, but the university said it will ignore the non-binding decision. “The student union is a corporation independent of the university, we have to be clear there,” said Michael Forbes, a spokesperson for Ryerson and quoted […]
These students are happy, proud Zionists celebrating the civil rights movement of the Jewish people.
FLI: smorgasbord of Israeli programming from many organizations for students from different campuses
NYC council members proposed legislation requiring NYC public schools offer Islamic-compliant food.
By JTA
It is too easy to blame Bernard Madoff for Yeshiva University’s financial problems.
By JTA
The student government at Chicago’s Loyola University passed an Israel divestment resolution for a second time, while a similar resolution was defeated at the University of Michigan. On Tuesday, the Loyola United Student Government Association in a revote from a week ago passed the measure by a vote of 12-10 with nine abstentions. The resolution, […]
According to the AMCHA Initiative, anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses is "growing at an alarming rate."
The goal of Harvard Israel Trek is to create informed, committed campus advocates. Does it?
A Jewish trip to learn about Israeli history, culture and politics, ended up paying a visit to arch-terrorist Arafat's grave.
Northeastern U's Students for Justice in Palestine Suspended following mock evictions
Brooklyn College has finally apologized to the four Jewish Pro-Israel students it ejected from a BDS forum last year.
Free speech rights of UC Irvine Muslim students did not trump Amb. Michael Oren's right to speak.
college senior: others need to stand tall against the intimidation of anti-Israel forces on campuses
The two Harvard MBA students are the perfect matchmakers for quality MBA students and Israeli companies
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Watan, a Palestinian student group at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, launched a new exhibit featuring photos whose captions are hostile to Israel, referring to Jerusalem as a “sewer of the Israeli settlements” and to Israeli soldiers as “the occupation army” and “the hunters of liberty.” In the “Pictures From Across Palestine” exhibit, which was […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel's largest early-stage cyber-security investor, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), announced in San Francisco on Tuesday that a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) startup won the first “Cybertition” competition. Thirty-five cyber-security companies competed. The winning company, Titanium Core, works to repel cyber attacks on mission-critical systems and prevent attacks in real time. It will receive […]
By JTA
The flood of anti-Israel hatred on campuses seems to be losing some of its strength.
Jerusalem Ventures Partners (JVP). Israel's leading VC firm and the largest early-stage cyber-security investor in Israel, announced Wednesday that Titanium Core, an innovative startup that protects mission-critical infrastructure, has won JVP's first ever “Cybertition” cyber-security startup competition. JVP will reward Titanium with an instant $1 million Investment and a spot in JVP Cyber Labs incubator […]
Avital Weinberg, a 10th grade Honors student at Midreshet Shalhevet, has made it to the final round of the international math competition, Ulpaniada. Avital is one of twenty students worldwide to reach this final stage of the competition. The Ulpaniada is a problem solving competition based on math skills and logical reasoning for Orthodox high […]
By JTA
The flyer notes the American Studies Association’s decision in December to boycott Israeli educational institutions.
College senior falsely inserted in anti-Israel promo, offers $5000 for removal and public debate.
Students have been asking, "why do people feel the need to ruin Hillel?"
By JTA
Jonathan Halpert, whose contract as the men’s basketball coach at Yeshiva University was not renewed, closed out more than four decades on the Maccabees’ bench with a victory. Y.U. edged Maritime College, 60-57, before a nearly full house at the New York school’s Max Stern Athletic Center on Saturday night, according to the Yeshiva website, […]
The statement from Ramaz said, “Our question was: ‘Is this the appropriate program?’”
The film uses scholars, activists and carefully selected film clips to unravel the magical marketing mystery of J Street.
If an "Open Hillel" hosts an event that contravenes the Guidelines, that will trigger disaffiliation.
Vassar's Jewish Union couldn't bear to bar Israel-haters from its "open and welcoming space!"
Mandela's grandsons are heirs to a lofty legacy, but ignorance about other cultures is problematic.
Knife-wielding and loving former SFSU student still wants to kill Jews, and is presumably still in Bay area
Israeli academics thanked the American academic leaders who condemned the ASA anti-Israel boycott.
By JTA
Hillel director Rabbi Oren Hayon told the Los Angeles Times that he did not believe the attack was anti-Semitic.
By JTA
A Long Island yeshiva student was charged with repeatedly scrawling antisemitic graffiti inside a commuter train station. Jonathan Schuster, 18, a senior at Priority-1: Torah Academy of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, in Cedarhurst, N.Y.,was charged with the crimes on Thursday He admitted to using black marker to write anti-Semitic statements, often including expletives, on eight occasions since December […]
Academic boycotts of Israel are Anti-Semitic; American taxpayers must not be forced to be complicit.
A UNESCO bioethics unit harshly condemned the ASA's boycott of Israeli academics.
The Helmsley Charitable trust, which was bankrolled by the late hotel tycoon “Queen of Mean” Leona Helmsley, has donated $25 million to Haifa University, which will use the funds for undersea robots and automated vehicles and undersea laboratories for its new Mediterranean Sea Research Center. Her name became more widely known for her including her […]
The Ruderman Foundation Prize went to a global leader in extending rights to those with disabilities
Lockheed Martin and EMC Corp. announced on Sunday an agreement to invest in cyber security and other technology projects based in the new Advanced Technologies Park at Ben Gurion University . The official launch ceremony for the agreement will take place tomorrow in Tel Aviv on Monday at the CyberTech 2014 International Exhibition and Conference. […]
By JTA
Brandeis University disclosed that it paid former university president Jehuda Reinharz $811,000 for accumulated sabbatical leave that he never took during his 17-year presidency. The payment was part of a $4.9 million lump sum payment Reinharz received Jan. 2 as deferred compensation, according to a statement issued by Brandeis. The amounts paid were set aside […]
J Street brazenly brazenly ignored a firm commitment to Philadelphia's Hillels. There were no consequences.
SAR High School in Riverdale, New York, is now allowing girls to wrap tefillin during Shacharit-morning prayer, probably the first Modern Orthodox high school in the U.S. to do so, reports The Boiling Point, the online student newspaper of Shalhevet High School in LA. Two girls were granted permission to wrap tefillin and wear a […]
By JTA
A Palestinian official accused the Czech Republic of violating European Union directives after its ambassador to Israel visited an Israeli university in Samaria. The visit last week by Ambassador Tomas Pojar to the University of Ariel, located in the largest Israeli settlement in Samaria, was a first for an EU ambassador, according to the Jerusalem […]
By Daniel Mael
J Street and Open Hillel claim they want openness and honesty in the discussion about Israel, but that's only for those who agree with them.