Aaron Bandler

1 week ago | jewishjournal.com | Aaron Bandler

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on May 22 that its Office of Civil Rights (OCR) had concluded that Columbia University violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, as the university had acted “with deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students from October 7, 2023, through the present.” OCR had concluded that, among other things, the university failed to enforce its time, place and manner restrictions and properly follow its...

2 weeks ago | jewishjournal.com | Aaron Bandler

The Associated Students of UC Irvine (ASUCI) Senate indefinitely tabled a resolution that would have called on the university to divest from “entities and institutions that support the genocide of Palestinians.” If passed, the resolution would have required that the ASUCI disclose “in quarterly public reports, all companies and products from which purchases were made, ensuring transparency and accountability in avoiding companies complicit in the occupation of Palestine” and adopt a...

2 weeks ago | jewishjournal.com | Aaron Bandler

The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) held a security briefing over Zoom on May 22 addressing the shooting that occurred in Washington, D.C. the previous night where two staff members of the Israeli embassy were killed. The two victims have been identified as Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26. Lischinsky had been planning to propose to Milgrim in the near future.

2 weeks ago | jewishjournal.com | Aaron Bandler

The Trump administration’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced on May 13 that it will be cutting another $450 million from Harvard University continually failing “to confront the pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus.”“Recent reporting has exposed the Harvard Law Review’s (HLR) pattern of endemic race discrimination when evaluating articles for inclusion in its journal,” the Task Force’s statement read.

2 weeks ago | jewishjournal.com | Aaron Bandler

Many Jewish groups issued statements on May 21 condemning the killing of two Israeli Embassy staff members in front of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.According to media reports, the two staffers were shot and killed in front of the museum and were on their way to an American Jewish Committee (AJC) event. The two victims were a couple and were about to engaged.