Jewish studies

Jewish studies

Students sit in a circle engaged in debate at New York University's Bronfman Center.
Jun 03, 2022
An organization that promotes dialogue and understanding among people with different political and religious perspectives is expanding its partnership with Hillels to address tensions among Jewish students about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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June 3, 2022
An organization that promotes dialogue and understanding among people with different political and religious perspectives is expanding its partnership with Hillels to address tensions among Jewish students about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
February 28, 2022
The University of Washington returned the money donated for the Israel studies program after the scholar who led the program signed a letter that criticized Israel.
January 7, 2014
David Hirsh writes that it's time to admit that the Israel boycott targets individuals, that it does so based on politics, and that it will primarily hit Jewish scholars in Israel.
January 7, 2014
Scholars on the left who back the boycott of Israeli universities are abandoning their own intellectual traditions, writes Chad Alan Goldberg.
June 11, 2009
In move being called an assault on academic freedom, Canadian official asks agency he supervises to reconsider grant for a conference that is angering some supporters of Israel.
December 23, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The panelists were to consider four questions. To summarize the first three: To what extent has Jewish philanthropy shaped the growth and content of Jewish studies as a field; have such external influences changed over the years; and does Jewish studies stand out, apart from the sciences, for its dependence on outside cash? To quote the moderator, Steven J. Zipperstein of Stanford University, on the fourth, “When is money too expensive to accept?”
January 14, 2008
The head of a nonviolence research center that recently relocated to the University of Rochester has angered many Jewish people -- and the university's president -- with blog comments that said Jewish people "overplay" the Holocaust and that Jews and Israel are the "biggest players" in the worldwide "culture of violence."Arun Gandhi -- who made the comments -- is the founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute, named for his grandfather, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and devoted to his teachings on nonviolence. Arun Gandhi is a popular speaker on many campuses.
July 6, 2007
Northeastern University and Hebrew College will combine Jewish studies programs and create a series of academic offerings.
May 23, 2006
Presidents, rabbis, activists and students gather to consider matters of faith and headline-grabbing controversies.
April 4, 2006
Some fret over seeming shift in Education Dept. policy on campus anti-Semitism, but U.S. says status quo holds.

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