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Columbia University sued over suspension of Palestinian and Jewish student groups – Middle East Eye

| March 13, 2024

The New York Civil Liberties Union, in collaboration with Palestine Legal, filed a lawsuit against Columbia University on Tuesday for the suspension of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapters.

Jewish students at UC Berkeley demand greater protections from university – Berkeleyside

| March 13, 2024

Hundreds of students and faculty members at Cal and city residents marched around the Sather Gate on March 11, 2024, demanding greater protection for Jewish students. Credit: Kelly Sullivan About 300 people, including graduate and undergraduate UC Berkeley students, faculty members and city residents marched from Zellerbach Playhouse to California Hall on Monday, demanding the university do more to protect Jewish students and faculty members two weeks after a violent demonstration led to the cancellation of an event with an Israeli think tank leader.

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.

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

Rome: Jesuit archives on the Holocaust to be digitalized – Vatican News – English

| March 5, 2024

The Archive of the House of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus signs an agreement with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to digitize archival material related to the Holocaust. By Fr. Pawe Rytel-Andrianik On 27 February, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Fondazione Polanco - Archives of the Society of Jesus ARSI (Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu) signed a cooperation agreement to share and digitize archival materials related to the Holocaust from the Jesuit archives dating from the period before, during and after World War II.

This Bill Could Silence Pro-Palestine Student Groups. It’s Not the Only One. – The Chronicle of Higher Education

| March 3, 2024

This Bill Could Silence Pro-Palestine Student Groups. It's Not the Only One.   The Chronicle of Higher Education

Our History – Beth Meyer Synagogue

| February 26, 2024

The Beginnings In 1862 Bavarian-born Michael Grausman and his wife, Regina Einstetta, moved from Warrenton, North Carolina to Raleigh. This was the beginning of Jewish culture and religion in our city.

The Feds Have Been Flooded With Campus Complaints of Anti-Jewish Bias. Now What? – The Chronicle of Higher Education

| January 26, 2024

The Feds Have Been Flooded With Campus Complaints of Anti-Jewish Bias. Now What

Senate Education approves PROMISE Plus and Holocaust education bills – The Dominion Post

| January 19, 2024

Senate Education approves PROMISE Plus and Holocaust education bills   The Dominion Post


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