Jewish students

Building Israel’s campus ambassadors

For more than a decade, Students Supporting Israel has been training students to advocate for the Jewish state. Founder Ilan Sinelnikov discusses the challenges facing campuses today

Participants in the 9th SSI National Conference at Florida Atlantic University
Members of the national board of J Street U, the liberal Zionist group's campus wing, speak at their 2026 convention in Washington, D.C.

Sarah Lawrence student senate rejects J Street U chapter after fierce backlash

Former hostage Omer Shem Tov speaks, as people celebrate at the "Hostages square", after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 9, 2025.

Jewish students deserve more than conditional empathy - opinion

GEORGIA GOV. Brian Kemp speaks during a press conference last month.

Georgia sets the bar: New laws tackle antisemitism and foreign influence in education - opinion


How HaZamir youth choir serves as 'an on-ramp to Jewish life'

With 26 chapters in the United States and 10 in Israel, they convene each year for a spring concert in New York City. 

HaZamir International Jewish High School Choir sings at the Temple Emanu-El during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in New York April 7, 2013

UK student union failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism - investigation

The NUS has a bad track record of failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitism and hate crimes within its organization for over a decade.

  Campaigners from the Campaign Against Antisemitism demonstrate and listen to speakers outside the Labour Party headquarters on April 8, 2018 in London, England.

US Jewish schools must emphasize strengthening traits integral to Jewish identity - opinion

Fostering the values of decency, kindness and empathy are integral values to Jewish identity. Many pluralistic and modern Orthodox schools list menschlichkeit at the top of their mission statements.

Orthodox Jewish children get off a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn in response to a measles outbreak, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, US, April 9, 2019.

Recognizing our everyday heroes: Our teachers - opinion

Saying thank you to teachers is not an act that only needed to happen during COVID, it is something they deserve every day.

 CHARLES E. SMITH Jewish Day School: The learner-educator relationship is at the very core of all of our schools, says the writer.

Flyers saying 'Zionists f*** off' spotted at GWU campus days before Sukkot

NGO StopAntisemitism in response heavily documented other antisemitic incidences at the university campus over the past few years.

George Washington University

Does UC Berkeley really have ‘Jew-free zones’? - explainer

Is the “Jew-free” label accurate? Not according to Jewish leadership at the university. Here’s a rundown of the controversy, and where people have come down on it.

University of California Berkeley campus.

CUNY announces new initiative to fight antisemitism on campus

The initiative promises improved antisemitism awareness and training, as well as a system-wide web page for reporting campus incidents and $750,000 in new funding.

CUNY Graduate Center

How anti-Israel faculty are radicalizing US campuses - opinion

Higher education institutions should not be tolerating offensive and demoralizing anti-Zionist speech and harassment that make Jewish and Zionist students feel unsafe and unwelcome.

 Rabbi Evan Goodman and students Tyler Barth, Romi Benasuly, and Lian Benasuly, look at a pre-pandemic social calendar at Santa Barbara Hillel near the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) campus in Isla Vista

Yeshiva University halts student clubs in dispute over LGBT group

Yeshiva University cannot bar an LGBT student club after the US Supreme Court refused to block a judge's ruling ordering the school to officially recognize the group.

Department of Communications and Public Affairs, Yeshiva University

U of Wisconsin apologizes to Jewish students about ‘Zionism is genocide’ graffiti

“To those Jewish students and others affected, we are sorry for the impact this had on your first day of class at UW,” UW's Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer said.

The Science Hall building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014.