Jewish students

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

'Student senators compared recognizing the group to approving ‘a white supremacist organization.’

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
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.
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

A UCLA student leader reflects on the backlash that followed hosting former hostage Omer Shem Tov, and what it reveals about the conditional acceptance of Jewish trauma on campus.

|ByTALIA DAVOOD
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

Georgia has passed landmark laws to combat antisemitism in education and increase transparency on foreign funding. These moves set a new standard for state-level action on these issues.

|ByDAVID ZALIK
Students place flags near the main lawn of Columbia University, to show support for the Jewish community on campus, for peaceful solutions, and commemorate all lives lost since October 7, 2023, across from a student protest encampment in support of Palestinians, during the ongoing conflict

CAM and the African American Mayors Association launch new national fellowship

This new national fellowship will rejuvenate the historic alliance between Black and Jewish communities in the United States

|ByCOMBAT ANTISEMITISM MOVEMENT

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.

JANUARY 13, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

JANUARY 8, 2023ByIRIT TRATT
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.

NOVEMBER 20, 2022ByPAUL BERNSTEIN
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.

OCTOBER 9, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

OCTOBER 6, 2022ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
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.

OCTOBER 2, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022ByMIRIAM F. ELMAN
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.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022ByREUTERS
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.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
The Science Hall building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014.

‘I am not an agent for change, I am trying to preserve the community’

Rabbi Menachem Bombach’s Netzach Educational Network for haredi students views secular studies as integral part of its school curriculum.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022ByALAN ROSENBAUM
JERUSALEM UNITY Prize presentation in May, with (L to R) Iris and Ori Yifrach, one of three sets of parents whose murdered sons inspired the prize; Rabbi Bombach; President Isaac Herzog; Yoav Zimran, Jerusalem Municipality.