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1 week ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | Samuel J. Abrams
zero comment Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by RealClear Education on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Last week, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) wrapped up their “Week of Rage,” a week-long series of programs intended to intimidate and threaten those unsupportive of their cause.
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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Samuel J. Abrams |Julia Cataneo
In advance of the Passover holiday, prominent Rabbi David Wolpe asked journalist Douglas Murray how families should talk at the Seder to those captured by an anti-Zionist worldview. Murray gave a fantastic and deeply Talmudic response; “I’d invite them to listen, instead of talking….is to presume that there are other people who know, not just them.
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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Samuel J. Abrams
Last week, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) wrapped up their “Week of Rage,” a week-long series of programs intended to intimidate and threaten those unsupportive of their cause. Despite their best efforts, SJP has quite the uphill battle; the student group’s views about Hamas and Israel are simply not in line with the rest of the nation at all.
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3 weeks ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | Samuel J. Abrams
In the winter of 2024, the U.S. Department of Education announced that an investigation is underway at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) over its anti-Semitic environment. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights wrote in a December 23 letter that it will examine “whether the College failed to respond to alleged harassment of students on the basis of national origin … in a manner consistent with the requirements of Title VI.”Now, SLC will have to answer to the U.S. Congress, too.
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Samuel J. Abrams |Julia Cataneo
To the dismay of those on the left, President Trump’s approval rating continues to climb among Gen Zers. Progressive data analyst David Shor explained to the New York Times that the Republican Party under President Donald Trump has seen “a massive shift of young people into the GOP column.” Recent AtlasIntel polling shows that President Trump’s approval rating among 18–29-year-olds has climbed to about 53 percent in February, marking a substantial improvement since his January inauguration.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Samuel J. Abrams |Tanner Nalley
After attending a party celebrating the release of a friend’s book, I left feeling deeply saddened. It would seem that the whole reason why I became a professor—intellectual diversity and open and engaged dialogue—is long gone on our nation’s college and university campuses. Many of the attendees were older professors, some well-known and respected for the books they have written. The guests were overwhelmingly left-of-center and ideologically progressive.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Tal Fortgang |Michael Reneau |David Wolpe |Samuel J. Abrams
As weather across the United States warms, concern springs eternal that universities will once again draw national attention for all the wrong reasons. Last year, milder temperatures brought unsanctioned encampments full of students (and faculty) demonstrating against Israel. Administrators tolerating Zionist-free zones predictably invited lawsuits, which have progressed considerably in recent months.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Samuel J. Abrams
In an article for Slate, Joel Swanson, a newly hired professor of Jewish Studies at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC), selectively presents only part of the story regarding the college’s response to the wave of anti-Semitism that swept SLC following Hamas’s October 7 massacre in Israel. No surprise to me, Swanson uses the piece to argue that Donald Trump’s budget cuts and investigations into SLC present are the real threats to Jewish students.
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1 month ago | 
jewishnewsva.org | Samuel J. Abrams
Of the many Jewish holidays that dot the calendar, one of my son’s favorites is Purim. For children, Purim is celebrated with costumes, festival foods like hamantaschen, donations to those in need, and a community reading of the Book of Esther, which joyously celebrates the bravery of Esther and Mordechai and the deliverance of the Jewish people from Haman’s decree of death.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Samuel J. Abrams |Tanner Nalley
Bans on cell phones in schools have become popular across the country and abroad. Adults should follow the school’s lead. Despite the cell phone’s profound impact on society, our mobile devices are damaging the public sphere and disconnecting us from each other. Without question, phones have given individuals more power to connect, compute, share, and consume than most could have imagined mere decades ago.
