In late June, a federal judge issued an injunction against President Trump’s attempt to prevent international students from obtaining visas to study at Harvard University. The president’s threat followed a period of heated conflict with the institution, in which he had issued a series of demands and warnings, all supposedly relating to his efforts to crack down […]
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UPDATE: Penn Alumnus Continues to Push Alma Mater To Combat Campus Antisemitism
For University of Pennsylvania grad Eyal Yakoby, the antisemitism at his alma mater is easy to spot. It’s coming straight from the faculty. Now he’s using his growing social media following to pressure Penn, which has a national reputation for allowing antisemitism on campus, to change course. Yakoby’s latest example of blatant Jew hatred at […]
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ROSENBERG: Portnoy, Barstool, and the Auschwitz Trip: Antisemitism Demands a Smarter Response
Philadelphia made national news this week for all the wrong reasons. At Barstool Sansom Street, a new sports bar launched by the ever-controversial Dave Portnoy, a young man was photographed holding a whiteboard with a message scrawled in marker: “F*** the Jews.” It wasn’t some out-of-context comment. It was deliberate. A posed photo. Shared. Amplified. […]
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Jewish Parents Band Together to Stop Antisemitism in Lower Merion Schools
Deena Pack of Bala Cynwyd, an Orthodox Jewish mother of three, is one of several parents who talked about antisemitic incidents that happened to their children in Lower Merion schools. Her youngest son was a pupil at Cynwyd Elementary School last year. Hers was just one account of several told to about 100 Jewish parents […]
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GIORDANO: Caving to Her Party’s Anti-Jewish Bias May Have Cost Harris the Election
Pennsylvania is in play and may end up in the win column for former President Donald Trump. When historians write the saga of why Vice President Kamala Harris failed in her presidential bid, they may attribute it to one fatal choice: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her VP pick. When I watched Ohio Sen. JD […]
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McCormick to PA Jewish Org: Lack of Courage Kept Harris From Picking Shapiro for VP
Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick promised to support Israel and fight against rising antisemitism during a town hall with a Jewish group on Sunday, drawing contrasts with incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. And he called out Vice President Kamala Harris for a failure of courage in passing over Gov. Josh Shapiro for her running […]
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Professor Decries Antisemitism at Haverford College
What is life like for Jewish students on college campuses in the Philadelphia suburbs? Barak Mendelsohn, a professor of political science at Haverford College, posted a message to X from a Jewish student who was considering coming to Haverford this fall but decided not to. “First, [I] had some great conversations with other students, but […]
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Jewish Students Tell Senate Committee About Being Called ‘Pigs,’ ‘Nazis’ on PA Campuses
Jewish students attending Pennsylvania colleges shared harrowing testimony before a state Senate committee Thursday about being called “pigs” and “Nazis” on campus and being forced to evacuate a Jewish community center after a bomb threat. Now, those students worry the threats and harassment may continue into the fall semester at the University of Pennsylvania, Pitt, […]
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Judge Dismissed Pro-Palestinian Group’s Lawsuit Against University of Pennsylvania
A federal judge denied a request for an injunction against the University of Pennsylvania that would have prevented Penn from giving Congress information about a Palestinian literary festival held at the university. A group of professors and students called Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine sued Penn to stop it from complying with a request […]
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House GOP to Bring Bill Fighting Antisemitism to Floor; Will PA Dems Stop Them?
At a press conference Monday, state Rep. Kristin Marcell (R-Richboro) said many of her Jewish constituents have called asking for help combatting surging antisemitism in their communities. “Just yesterday, there was graffiti on sidewalks with hateful messages all throughout Doylestown in Bucks County. That is right next to my district,” Marcell said. In response, she […]