Jewish panelists push back as billionaire Bill Ackman defends Trump’s feud with Harvard
Ackman appeared in the last panel of the day, speaking to a crowd that filled all 250 seats in the center’s auditorium.
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, right, speaks on a panel with Liberties editor Leon Wieseltier and Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt at "The End of an Era: Jews and Elite Universities," a symposium at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, May 18, 2025.(photo credit: JOHN HALPERN)ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA