College

Brown University president Christina Paxson to step down after Trump administration clashes

Paxson said she planned to leave her job a year earlier, but extended her tenure at the university to "navigate a federal funding freeze that imperiled our mission."

Brown University President Christina Paxson listens during a press conference.
Rabbi Mark Wildes with the scribe at the Nova site.

Beyond the Headlines: What did you take home from Israel? - opinion

Sally Reidman.

Sally Reidman came to Israel with a massage table - and built a healthcare empire

Participants in the 9th SSI National Conference at Florida Atlantic University

Building Israel’s campus ambassadors


'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' chanted at San Francisco high school

Numerous X users shared the video and their concern that the protest could endanger anyone Jewish at the school.

A general aerial view of San Francisco is seen in San Francisco, California, U.S., October 5, 2017.

To be Jewish on a college campus where students support Hamas - opinion

My own Columbia classmates have responded to the horror by posting comments supporting Hamas and trying to silence others.

 A vigil service is held at Columbia University in memory of the Israelis killed by Hamas.

Academia’s antisemitism problem is not new - opinion

Campus Chabads have quickly become places of shelter amid the wave of antisemitic pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas activity.

 STUDENTS GATHER at a Chabad event, in support of Israel, at Arizona State University.

US college students stand up for Israel with cross-campus network - opinion

It’s easy to feel helpless in this situation – what can one Jewish student on a campus of 40,000 do? The answer is connect with thousands like them around the country.

 Pro-Israel students take part in a protest in support of Israel amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at Columbia University in New York City, US, October 12, 2023.

BGU, southern colleges to create campus for ultra-Orthodox students

A new higher education campus for the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Israelis living in the South will open up around October 2024.

 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Marcus Family Campus.

Jewish women experience more antisemitism on US college campuses - study

A recent study finds discrepancies between how, on average, men and women perceive antisemitism on their university campuses.

 Students at JNF-USA's Alexander Muss High School in Israel gain an informed perspective about Israel while experiencing 4,000 years of Jewish history

Penn Hillel vandalized by person ‘experiencing a crisis,’ say police

An intruder at UPenn's Hillel smashed a table and podium, flipped over a table in the lobby, and yelled antisemitic slurs in an attack on the Jewish student center.

 A statue of a young Benjamin Franklin at the University of Pennsylvania.

Australian court awards Jewish students A$400,000 in antisemitism case

The judge presiding over the case ruled that the principal failed “to take appropriate and reasonable steps to discourage and modify the antisemitic student bullying and harassment behavior.”

 Visitors seen standing next to a display of swastika banners at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 26, 2022, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

50 Influential Jews: Ranan Hartman - No. 42

As the head of Ono Academic College, Ranan Hartman has been changing Israel's higher education sector and pushing to integrate students from underprivileged backgrounds.

 Ono Academic College founder and CEO Ranan Hartman.

Nearly 60% of US Jewish college students experience or witness antisemitism - study

As the new school year begins, these findings furnish essential evidence of the breadth and depth of antisemitism students encounter.

 People wearing antisemitic and nazi symbols argue with conservatives during a protest outside the Tampa Convention Center where the Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) Student Action Summit (SAS) is held, in Tampa, Florida, U.S. July 23, 2022.