Education and Schools

5+ hour, 53+ min ago   (979+ words) WALTHAM, Massachusetts | New England Patriots owner and Jewish philanthropist Robert Kraft has donated $10 million to Brandeis University to help build a major new center for Jewish life and leadership at the Massachusetts university. The gift will establish the Robert K. Kraft…...

15+ hour, 3+ min ago   (616+ words) As the world remembers the horrific Islamist terrorist strikes against the United States on 9/11 twenty-five years ago, we in India also remember how, in 1893, Swami Vivekananda addressed the World’s Parliament of Religions on the same day. The two represent opposite…...

23+ hour, 39+ min ago   (312+ words) LEADERS from across Wales’ major faith communities have written a joint open letter to Members of the Senedd, pledging their prayers and support as the new Senedd begins its term, while warning against rising religious and ethnic prejudice amid what…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (856+ words) TORONTO, Canada | Five major Jewish organizations have released a Jewish Students’ Bill of Rights calling on elementary and secondary schools across North America to adopt six standards intended to protect Jewish students from antisemitism, harassment and pressure to distance themselves…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (201+ words) The antisemitic Cornell University student who went viral for declaring that he’s “not interested in working for a Jew” has become a pariah among his peers — yet insisted this week he’s a campus celebrity, The Post has learned. Austin Franco,…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (525+ words) A Carnegie Mellon University professor is on a voluntary sabbatical while school officials review what they called “hostile and threatening social media posts.” Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition, is under scrutiny following a 2021 exchange on X…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (147+ words) Breitbart:SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education will now require high school... The board voted 8 -4 on Friday to approve the curriculum rewrite after months of debate. The changes included referring to Mohammed as the “Prophet of Islam…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (880+ words) “It’s astonishing that anything exists.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Is this a week to drain our souls, or what? Yesterday, the memory of Charlie Kirk, a decent young man known for acting nobly in an ignoble era, cut down (it is alleged…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (206+ words) The Jewish Link Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Visits Chabad-Rutgers as the School Year Begins (Courtesy of Rutgers Chabad) The Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rishon LeZion Chacham David Yosef, visited and prayed morning services on Sept. 4 with students at…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (48+ words) Antisemitism is reshaping college decisions for Jewish students, advocate says Fox News Antisemitism is reshaping college decisions for Jewish students, advocate says Avi Gordon, executive director of Alums for Campus Fairness, outlines five factors shaping Jewish life on college campuses,…...