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Brown University president Christina Paxson to step down after Trump administration clashes

Paxson said she planned to leave her job a year earlier, but extended her tenure at the university to "navigate a federal funding freeze that imperiled our mission."

Brown University President Christina Paxson listens during a press conference.
Piers Morgan interviews Austin Franco, a Cornell University undergraduate who went viral after telling a job interviewer he was "not interested in working for a Jew," on July 28, 2026.

Cornell condemns student’s viral antisemitic remarks, but won’t bar him from campus

 University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill testifies before a House Education and The Workforce Committee hearing titled "Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 5, 2023.

US agency drops bid to force Penn to provide list of Jewish employees in antisemitism probe

 Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 2019.

Reed College agrees to sweeping reforms to settle antisemitism investigations


Chicago judge allows Northwestern University to enforce antisemitism training policy

Northwestern can discipline students who skipped its antisemitism course, a judge ruled, rejecting claims of anti-Palestinian bias.

Banners hanging from the fence outside Northwestern University during a pro-Palestinian protest, Evanston, Illinois, April 27, 2024.

Israel’s government signals it no longer values academic merit - opinion

Relative to its size, Israel ranks among the leading countries in Nobel achievements, and its position improved this year, when Joel Mokyr, an Israeli-American, was one of three economics laureates.

ISRAELI-AMERICAN Joel Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University who is one of three Nobel economics laureates this year, speaks at a news conference on campus in Evanston, Illinois.

Opposing Trump's campus policies as a Jewish university president

Michael Roth, Wesleyan's Jewish president, stands apart in opposing Trump's campus policies, negotiated with encampments, and says Jews shouldn't back Trump

Wesleyan University president Michael Roth accepts a free-speech award from PEN America for his comments criticizing the Trump administration's campus crackdown, May 21, 2025.(Screenshot via YouTube)

US SJP activists demand ‘Death to Collaborators’ after ‘Mr. FAFO’ killing

NSJP mourns Gaza influencer killed amid Hamas clashes, and calls for revenge against “collaborators,” condemning them as “Zionist proxies” in a controversial Instagram post.

Screenshot of NJSP Instagram

Montreal’s Concordia University closes campus amid violent campus protests

Concordia University shut down its downtown campus after two non-student anti-Israel activists were arrested with incendiary devices during protests marking two years since the Hamas-Israel war

 PRO-PALESTINIAN groups block entrances to the Bronfman Building on the McGill University campus in Montreal, last month.

A sacred space for all: Campus interfaith dialogue in the wake of October 7

Through two years of war, the question of how to approach dialogue between people of different religions is even more crucial.

An illustrative image of religious books.

Innovative program at CUNY colleges retools Hillels as social service hubs for students

The program aspires to turn Hillels at CUNY schools, whose 16,000 Jewish students are almost all commuters, into hubs for Jewish life.

Muhlenberg College Hillel is pictured at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. March 26, 2025.

Dozens of Northwestern students face penalties for boycotting required antisemitism training video

The students are boycotting the video over what they allege is “biased” content in the video, which the university began requiring this year in response to allegations of antisemitism.

Banners hanging from the fence outside Northwestern University during a pro-Palestinian protest, Evanston, Illinois, April 27, 2024.

Trump-backed targeting of pro-Palestinian activists for deportation is unlawful, US judge rules

A federal judge ruled Trump’s administration violated free speech by revoking visas and deporting students over pro-Palestinian advocacy during the Gaza war.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest outside the main campus of Columbia University during the Columbia commencement ceremony in Manhattan, in New York City, May 21, 2025.

Dartmouth Jewish students' dorm rooms defaced with swastikas in two incidents

A swastika was drawn on a laminated sign outside a Jewish student's room on Friday night, leading to increased Dartmouth Safety and Security patrols in residence halls.

 Dartmouth Hall at Dartmouth College