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Reichman’s journey: Building a global academic home for the Jewish people

Prof. Uriel Reichman, Jerusalem Post New York Conference Lifetime Award recipient, reflects on Zionism, Oct. 7, and his vision for Reichman University.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prof. Uriel Reichman is honored with a Lifetime Award from The Jerusalem Post New York Conference.
Graduating students hold a sign reading "There Are No Universities Left in Gaza" during the 373rd Commencement Exercises at Harvard University, May 2024.

Academic boycott of Israel harms the foundations of academia - opinion

The SCE Tech-Fest 25 to be held in parallel in Ashdod and Beersheba is much more than a merely academic event – it is a declaration that science continues, progress never ceases.

|ByJEHUDA HADDAD
A sign is pictured as demonstrators gather in support of Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney specialist and assistant professor at Brown University who was refused re-entry to the United States despite holding an H1-B visa, at the State House in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., March 17, 2025.

Don't rehire antisemitic, pro-Nasrallah doctor, over 1000 doctors urge Brown University

Medical professionals call for Brown University not to rehire a known Hezbollah supporter for an assistant professor position at the Ivy League school.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Rabbi Adi Isaacs (bottom L) poses with his Nitzavim Class of 2025.

Nitzavim: The campus revolution of next-generation Jewish leaders

Each project is tailor-made to the campus it serves, with strategies ranging from combating antisemitism to providing Jewish programming and education about Israel.

|ByNATAN ROTHSTEIN

Why American support for Israel remains strong despite campus antisemitism - opinion

Only a statistically insignificant number of university student presidents, valedictorians, and student-selected speakers become American leaders.

JUNE 8, 2025
DEMONSTRATORS TAKE part in an Emergency Rally: Stand with Palestinians Under Siege in Gaza at Harvard University in 2023.

A call to students worldwide: Now is the time to come study in Israel - opinion

Joining the community of Israeli academia is to take a stand.

JUNE 5, 2025
BySHEIZAF RAFAELI
STUDENTS MINGLE on the campus of Shenkar College. ‘In Israel, we are rebuilding – intellectually, emotionally, and physically – after a national trauma. Your presence can be a part of that sunrise,’ says the writer.

University of Utah, Ariel University sign academic cooperation deal

The deal included research and student exchanges in medicine, AI, and data science.

MAY 30, 2025
University of Utah president Dr. Taylor Randall and Ariel University president Prof. Ehud Grossman at the after signing a five-year memorandum of understanding

Trump administration halts scheduling of new student visa appointments

Increased deportations and the revocation of student visas are due to the Trump administration's hardline immigration agenda.

MAY 27, 2025
ByREUTERS
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House.

Trump admin. argues Columbia University violated Jewish students' civil rights

Columbia violated Title VI by "acting with deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students from October 7, 2023, through the present," the White House argued.

MAY 23, 2025
Protesters gather at a main entrance in front of Columbia University during convocation, in New York City, US, August 25, 2024

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.

MAY 20, 2025
ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
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.

Grapevine, May 11, 2025: It’s all academic

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 11, 2025
FROM LEFT: Sam Halabi, Liora Ofer, and Yona Yahav.

Fifty years of impact: BGU’s Faculty of Health Sciences sets the standard

Today, the faculty boasts 3,000 enrolled students – 30% of them studying for graduate degrees and conducting research in the various departments and programs. 

MAY 11, 2025
THE BEN-GURION University Medical School.

St Andrews rector wins appeal after Gaza email controversy

St Andrews rector Stella Maris wins appeal after facing dismissal for calling Israel's actions in Gaza “genocidal” in a 2023 university-wide email.

MAY 5, 2025
St Salvator's Quadrangle, St Andrews University, Scotland, pictured in 2022.

Harvard releases long-awaited internal antisemitism report amid fierce battle with Trump

The report shows that Israeli and Jewish students experience pervasive "shunning" and were targeted for their identities by students and staff after October 7.

MAY 1, 2025
ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
AN AERIAL BANNER reading ‘Harvard hates Jews’ flies over the campus at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last year. Zionist students in the Diaspora today demonstrate a courage Israelis will never need, the writer asserts.

Columbia University activist Mohsen Mahdawi released on bail

Wearing a keffiyeh, the 34-year-old Mohsen Mahdawi raised both hands in gestures of victory.

APRIL 30, 2025
Demonstrators hold placards as they protest on the day of a hearing on the detention of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City, U.S., March 12, 2025.