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Once lost to history, Kristallnacht testimonies describe pogrom’s aftermath

Compiled by a Harvard sociologist but not published until 2012, essays in the collection 'Night of Broken Glass' take readers beyond ravaged storefronts and burning synagogues

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Harvard internet whiz, 19, creates website connecting Ukrainian refugees with...

Founder of heavily used COVID tracking site, student Avi Schiffmann enables those fleeing the war to locate appropriate nearby sanctuary by clicking a link on a smartphone

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Harvard student paper ‘proudly’ endorses BDS movement, says it rejects...

Having declined for years to back the pro-Palestinian movement, Crimson board now 'regrets and rejects that view,' in potent symbol of campus sentiments on Israel

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‘Disrespectful of Jews’: 70 Harvard faculty reject student paper’s BDS...

Leading professors, including former US Treasury secretary Summers, a Crimson editor, and prominent alumni blast the newspaper for supporting 'anti-Jewish' boycott movement

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Henry Rosovsky, refugee from the Nazis who shaped Harvard University, dies at 95

Rosovsky, an economist, led a committee charged with improving conditions for Black students and shepherded the flourishing of Jewish life on campus

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Harvard reinstates offer to ex-Human Rights Watch chief after Israel controversy

University says it was an 'error' to rescind position from Kenneth Roth, allegedly over anti-Israel criticism, but denies claims donor influence and politics motivated move

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Experts debate whether Ivy League antisemitism probe is overreach or overdue

While everyone agrees that antisemitism on campus is a problem, not all see the ongoing congressional investigation as the solution - and some deem it a threat to higher education The post Experts...

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Harvard alumni backed by billionaires Ackman, Zuckerberg fail to make board...

Candidates were put forward by billionaire who led campaign over antisemitism, Facebook founder after university shaken by resignation of president, financial issues The post Harvard alumni backed by...

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House committee subpoenas Harvard over antisemitism investigation

Chairwoman Foxx slams school's 'delay and defiance'; university decries 'unwarranted' move but pledges to cooperate with probe, amid post-October 7 rise in campus antisemitism The post House committee...

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Harvard pro-Palestinian faculty group apologizes after sharing antisemitic...

University to review since-deleted post shared by Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, which includes 1960s-era cartoon that was also denounced then as antisemitic The post Harvard...

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In DC, Jewish students tell House committee: ‘It’s open season on Jews on our...

Months after the Education and Workforce Committee hearing that contributed to the resignation of top school presidents, Jewish students say the hatred continues unchecked The post In DC, Jewish...

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US academics from Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth latest group to make Israel...

Mindful of an informal boycott of Israeli academics since Oct. 7, faculty from three prestigious US schools come to tour massacre sites and take home the lessons learned The post US academics from...

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Dozens arrested at U of Texas, USC as anti-Israel protests spread to more US...

Texas governor says protesters 'belong in jail,' White House upholds commitment to free speech, condemns 'hateful rhetoric'; House speaker tells Columbia president to restore calm or quit The post...

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A look at Gaza war protests that have emerged at US colleges, campus by campus

Dozens arrested as students from Massachusetts to California gather for rowdy rallies, which some Jewish students say have veered into antisemitism The post A look at Gaza war protests that have...

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Billionaire investor pans student protests at alma mater Harvard as ‘anarchy’

Kenneth Griffin says university should embrace ‘Western values,’ put meritocracy 'front and center' The post Billionaire investor pans student protests at alma mater Harvard as ‘anarchy’ appeared first...

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Amid war, five Israeli universities ascend in international rankings

UAW-based report on top 2,000 universities places majority of Israeli research universities among the top 3 percent worldwide The post Amid war, five Israeli universities ascend in international...

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Anti-Israel Harvard students dismantle camp after university agrees to negotiate

Protesters say they will demand disclosure of investments in Israel, divestment from the country, and creation of a center for Palestinian studies The post Anti-Israel Harvard students dismantle camp...

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Hundreds of graduates walk out of Harvard commencement, chanting ‘Free...

Anti-Israel protesters demand that the US university okay graduation of 13 students who were denied a diploma over their conduct in campus encampment The post Hundreds of graduates walk out of Harvard...

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Nobel laureate accused of employing antisemitic trope in Harvard commencement...

Philippine journalist Maria Ressa says she was 'called antisemitic by money and power because they want money and power'; campus rabbi leaves stage after she doesn't clarify comment The post Nobel...

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After controversy over Israel-Hamas war, Harvard to stop issuing any such...

University accepts recommendations of working group that institute should not weigh in on controversial issues, following firestorm of debate over reactions to Oct. 7, ensuing war The post After...

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