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Pepperdine to Host Ambassadors Sam Brownback and Rabbi David Saperstein to Discuss Bipartisan Approaches to … – Pepperdine University Newsroom

| March 21, 2024

On Monday, April 8, 2024, at 12:30 PM, the Sudreau Global Justice Institute, in partnership with the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, will feature two former International Religious Freedom ambassadors who will address bipartisan strategies related to international religious freedom. Sam Brownback, who served under President Trumps administration, and Rabbi David Saperstein, who served under President Obamas administration, will speak broadly about the importance of the United States advancing religious freedom around the world, how the two pursued international religious freedom both in and out of government, and how the right and left can work together in pursuit of it

TikTok Supporters Blame Jews for Congressional Ban – Washington Free Beacon

| March 21, 2024

TikTok supporters online are claiming that "pro-Israel lobbying groups" and Jews are responsible for pressuring Congress into fast-tracking bills that would ban the Chinese social media app, which the U.S. intelligence community deems a national security threat. Online activists across X, Reddit, and other popular internet forums are spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories claiming that prominent Jewish-American leaders oppose TikTok because it has emerged as a central repository for anti-Israel criticism related to the war against Hamas

12 Remarkable Jewish Women – My Jewish Learning

| March 13, 2024

From biblical times to the present, Jewish women have given hope, meaning and strength to the Jewish community. These twelve remarkable Jewish women have shown extraordinary leadership, changed the course of Jewish practice, offered comfort and hope, and injected creativity into the Jewish world.

Better ‘Jew free’: London doctor to be investigated by Health Secretary over antisemitism – The Jerusalem Post

| March 13, 2024

The UK Health Secretary Victoria Atkins announced intentions to "urgently" investigate Dr. Dimitrios Psaroudakis, a London-based gynecologist who claimed his local borough of Hammersmith would be better "Jew free," according to multiple media reports from Saturday

LEONARD GREENE: Tensions rise in N.J. Jewish community over land for sale in Israel – New York Daily News

| March 13, 2024

Barricades stretched for a quarter mile along Roemer Ave. in Teaneck, N.J., on both sides of the street. A spotlight camera stood sentry at the intersection outside the Congregation Keter Torah off New Bridge Road

Columbia’s New Antisemitism Task Force Won’t Say What It Thinks Antisemitism Is – The Intercept

| March 13, 2024

A recent listening session hosted by Columbia Universitys new Task Force on Antisemitism devolved into chaos, with a task force leader yelling at students who questioned the groups refusal to define antisemitism, according to sources at the university. Meanwhile, the school is preparing to spend up to $135,000 to hire someone to support the task force, which was propped up just weeks after Hamass October 7 attack on Israel

UPenn faculty sues university in attempt to stop anti-Semitism documents being sent to Congress: ‘McCarthyism’ – Campus Reform

| March 13, 2024

The University of Pennsylvania Faculty for Justice in Palestine group has filed a federal lawsuit against the Ivy League institution in an attempt to stop documents from being sent to a House of Representatives committee investigating campus anti-Semitism. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the lawsuit was filed by two professors with the Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine group and alleged that the House Committee on Education and the Workforce investigation into anti-Semitism at the institution threatens academic freedom. This nation is seeing a new form of McCarthyism, in which accusations of anti-Semitism are substituted for the insinuations of Communist leanings which were the tool of oppression in the 1950s, the lawsuit states.

British government intensifies school and campus clampdown under guise of combating antisemitism – WSWS

| March 13, 2024

The Conservative governments criminalisation of opposition in Britain to Israels genocidal assault on the Palestinians in Gaza is escalating. Continuing to slander anti-Zionist views as antisemitism, Higher Education Minister Robert Halfon announced in February that an Expert Adviser on antisemitism in Higher Education will be appointed.

Columbia President Will Testify Before Congress on Response to Campus Anti-Semitism – Washington Free Beacon

| March 13, 2024

Anti-Israel protest at Columbia (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The president and board co-chairs of Columbia University will appear before Congress next month to discuss their response to rising campus anti-Semitism, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce announced. "Some of the worst cases of antisemitic assaults, harassment, and vandalism on campus have occurred at Columbia University," the committee's chairwoman, Rep

Columbia University president and board chairs to testify before House committee investigating anti-Semitism – Campus Reform

| March 13, 2024

Leaders of Columbia University will testify at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on April 17. The House committee announced on March 11 that Columbia University President Nemat (Minouche) Shafik along with Board of Trustees Co-Chairs Claire Shipman and David Greenwald will appear at the hearing, titled Columbia in Crisis: Columbia Universitys Response to Antisemitism.


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