Published by The Daily Caller Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman endorsed an op-ed by The Washington Post calling on Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney to serve as the president of Harvard University to “recalibrate” it “from far-left orthodoxy.” The piece, “Harvard is in an almighty mess. Let Mitt Romney clean it up,” called on Romney
There are passing mentions of b’nai mitzvah, Shabbat, and studying Hebrew but these are not essential to the plot, and I wonder sometimes whether such Jewish content is there simply to be placed on Jewish reading lists. You won’t learn anything about Judaism or Jewish culture, but interesting information abounds about the space and the sea. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Published by The Western Journal Nearly 50 anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday morning at Hewitt University Quadrangle at the center of Yale University’s New Haven, Connecticut, campus. According to a live blog from The Yale Daily News, police began gathering around the area — often referred to as Beinecke Plaza — before 7:00 that morning,
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Published by GB News (US) Columbia University students will attend classes virtually on Monday as officials hope to deescalate tensions on the campus following pro-Palestine protests. President at the New York City university Nemat Minouche Shafik said the university was cancelling in-person classes on Monday while denouncing antisemitic language and intimidating and harassing behaviour. It
Published by The Daily Caller Jewish Yale University student Sahar Tartak was reportedly “jabbed” in the eye with a Palestinian flag pole Saturday night while reporting on a pro-Palestine protest at the school’s campus. Tartak, who is the editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, posted to X (formerly known as Twitter) claiming that she had
Published by HNGN United States President Joe Biden has condemned pro-Palestinian activists for acts of “blatant” antisemitism during protests at Columbia University against the war in Gaza. Biden’s remarks came hours after a statement by the White House denouncing “physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community.” In a statement released on Sunday in
Published by HNGN More than 100 people were arrested and issued summonses for trespass this week after protesters established an encampment at New York City’s Columbia University in support of Palestinians in Gaza. New York Mayor Eric Adams said on Thursday (Apr. 18) that the demonstrators occupied the space on the university’s South Lawn for
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Published by AFP New York (AFP) – Police arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian student protesters at New York’s Columbia University Thursday, a day after the president of the prestigious school was grilled in Congress over accusations of anti-Semitism on campus. “NYPD officers moved in to ensure the safety of the campus, the students and the
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In response to his daughter receiving a swastika on social media, a California Jewish lawmaker is pushing for a bill that would give school administrators authority to suspend or expel students if they cyberbully fellow students away from school and outside of school hours. [Ryan Sabalow, CalMatters]
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Jeremy Pearl: “Since the October 7th attacks on Israel, our donors have directed $10,606,324 to 99 organizations supporting needs from crisis management to mental health support.” (SDJW staff)
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According to a study of 1,466 Israelis by telephone and internet, slightly more than half (52%) believe Israel shouldn’t respond, while 48% favor Israel responding even if it means extending the current round of the conflict with Iran. [Press Release]
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Arrow received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1972 for proving the impossibility of simultaneously meeting the requirements of reasonableness and equality and the impossibility of establishing the ranking of social priorities. According to the Gödel-Arrow theorem, any electoral system is flawed. [Alex Gordon, PhD]
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An international team of researchers, with the participation of researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) led by Professor (emeritus) Tsevi Mazeh of TAU’s Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, have discovered a star which orbits a black hole 33 times heavier than the sun’s mass and lies 1,500 light-years away from Earth. The black hole, discovered using data from the European Gaia spacecraft, is more than three times heavier than the other known black holes in our galaxy. [Press Release]
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Published by The Daily Caller The University of Southern California (USC) decided Monday its valedictorian would no longer speak at the university’s graduation ceremony, citing safety concerns. There was a growing “intensity of feelings” and “an alarming tenor” of discussions around the university’s choice of Asna Tabassum as valedictorian, USC’s Provost and Senior Vice President