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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


With students shifting their study habits, this Jewish university is embracing smart AI adoption

Touro University is embracing AI across its programs, while balancing innovation with ethical considerations rooted in Jewish values.

Dental students Benji Bloom, left, and Bryan Dovi Teigman working in a Touro simulation lab that uses cutting-edge AI-based technology.

How can NYC Jews feel safe in a city which voted against them? - opinion

Mamdani’s victory leaves Jewish New Yorkers questioning their place in the city, feeling that their existence, values, and connection to Israel are no longer safe from the political landscape

NEW YORK CITY mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, the day after Election Day earlier this month: ‘As I walked to school the morning after Mamdani was elected as the next mayor, something in the air felt different,’ the writer recalls.

Canadian NDP leader condemns IDF veteran lecture tour, draws criticism for overlooking violence

McPherson said, 'It is utterly unacceptable for Canadian universities to provide a platform to members of a military force that is committing genocide.'

 Protesters hold Palestinian flags during a rally to call for a ceasefire, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada March 9, 2024.

Cornell University research funds to be restored in deal with Trump administration

Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff stressed his university had not been found in violation of US civil rights laws in any government investigations or compliance reviews.

 Cornell University's West Campus.

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.

Sample Gates on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, June 3, 2010.

Ashkelon Academic College welcomes new school year with tribute to Trump, IDF soldiers

The apparently American-style event pays tribute to "our great friend across the ocean," according to Student Association Chairman Meir Katz.

Ashkelon Academic College begins the academic year with a tribute to US President Donald Trump and IDF soldiers for their efforts during the war.

Washington student group holds lecture on October 7 massacre 'victory'

A University of Washington student group is holding an off-campus lecture on Sunday to explain why the October 7 massacre was a victory for the pro-Palestinian movement.

 A DEMONSTRATOR wears a button with a slogan that negates Israel’s existence, at a rally at the University of Washington in Seattle, earlier this year

One killed, six injured in shooting at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania

One person has since been arrested, CBS News quoted District Attorney Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe as saying. 

Philadelphia police, ilustration.

Activists disrupt lecture at City, University of London, demand Israeli professor's dismissal

Anti-Israel activists disrupt a lecture at City, University of London, demanding Professor Michael Ben-Gad's dismissal over his IDF service.

Anti-Israel activists protest during Ben-Gad's lecture.

Paris university event praises terrorists, October 7 massacre

"We are partners in the struggle and partners in the struggle against imperialism, Zionism, and fascism," said Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine official Mariam Abu Daqqa at the event.

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a former head of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions who served around 40 years of a life sentence for attacks on U.S. and Israeli diplomats in France, gestures outside Beirut International Airport after a French court ruled in favor of releasing him, in Beirut, Leban