Jewish Studies
Over half of US Jewish studies faculty records linked to anti-Israel positions
The study was conducted by the Olam, an institutional intelligence platform for Israel and the global Jewish economy, and published in early August.
Jewish woman elected president of Catholic Biblical Association of America - interview
Parashat Beshalach's lessons on unity, shared risk, and IDF service
Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview
This Hanukkah, my synagogue is illuminating our walls with relics of our Jewish immigrant stories
What better place to encourage people to learn and share their own immigrant history, digging out the details of who came when, from where and why?
Jewish groups at Penn sound alarm over federal lawsuit seeking information on Jewish employees
The subpoena sought contact information for Jewish employees who had filed a discrimination complaint, belonged to Jewish groups on campus, or were part of the school’s Jewish studies program.
In Denver, a Jewish day school happily copes with a surge in new students
Hailey, a senior at DJDS, transferred the school year after Oct. 7 because she was tired of her schoolmates constantly bringing up the situation in Israel and Gaza.
Surging LGBTQ enrollment in Jewish seminaries signals ‘astounding’ shift in US rabbinate
“It signals that American progressive Jewish life has evolved to the point where LGBTQ inclusion is a no-brainer.” said Hannah Karpel-Pomerantz
Vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel in Indiana
Indiana University’s Jewish studies program has erupted into a bitter internal feud, pitting a new interim director against faculty and students.
'Moses Maimonides': A Cornell professor’s look at the Rambam - review
Images in the book include a responsum in Maimonides’s own hand, signed “Moshe” by him. It is one of many such documents discovered in the Cairo 'geniza,' a storage of Hebrew and Aramaic documents.
U of Oregon budget cuts spare Judaic studies faculty who had raised alarm
“The Trump administration’s ‘deals’ turn Jewish studies into the court Jew of old,” a trio of established scholars in the field wrote in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education op-ed.
Jewish Studies faculty at U of Oregon rally to protect their jobs from feared budget cuts
The efforts come as Oregon prepares to announce sweeping cuts to its humanities programs to curb what it says is a $30 million budget deficit.
Missing in action: Where are the Jewish organizations? - opinion
Once, Jewish students boldly defended Israel in Europe’s streets and campuses. Today, well-funded Jewish organizations are nowhere to be found as anti-Israel forces dominate.
Justice Kagan speculates about publicly funded yeshivas
Kagan’s line of questioning comes as New York recently closed multiple yeshivas that were not abiding by a state law requiring all schools to adequately teach basic secular subjects.
