Campus News & Climate

‘Remembering the Holocaust – New (Old) Strands of Holocaust Memory in the Context of the New Museum of Holocaust History in Yad Vashem and the Contemporary Protestant Churches in England and Germany’

Wednesday, 5th March, 2008, 18.00-20.00, Michael Sadler Building, LG 15,University of Leeds Lecture by Dr Irene Lancaster FRSA(Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Research Associate at the Medievaland Renaissance Center at Haifa University, Patron of Christian Friendsof Magen David…

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Jewish Studies Shuttered in Russia

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008022620080226russia.html MOSCOW (JTA) — Russia’s only graduate program dedicated to Jewish studies is caught in the crossfire between its parent university and St. Petersburg city officials, who closed the university last week over fire code violations. Critics say the closure…

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Berkeley Is Negotiating Deal With Saudi University

http://chronicle.com/news/article/4069/uc-berkeley-negotiating-deal-with-saudi-university The University of California at Berkeley is working on a partnership deal with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the Contra Costa Times reported today. Under the arrangement, which the Times says could be made final…

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Londoner Studenten weisen antisemitische Ausstellung zurück

http://www.israelnetz.com/themen/nachrichten/artikel-nachrichten/artikel/londoner-studenten-weisen-antisemitische-ausstellung-zurueck/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=10&cHash=e7381c3365 LONDON (inn) – Eine Bilderausstellung hat diese Woche für Aufsehen an der “Universität College London” (ULC) gesorgt. Die Studentenvereinigung der Universität nahm von den Inhalten Abstand, da dieser teilweise antisemitisch und beleidigend sei. Wie die “Jerusalem Post” berichtet, wurde…

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Middle East, Israel Expert Michael Oren Joins Georgetown Faculty

For immediate release February 27, 2008 http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/ID=31515 Contact: Andrea S Fereshteh202-687-4328aes54@georgetown.edu Middle East, Israel Expert Joins Georgetown Faculty Washington, D.C. – Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service announced that renowned international historian Michael B. Oren has joined…

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Initiative Linking Researchers on Anti-Semitism

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107189.html Yale University launched an international association to link researchers on anti-Semitism. The International Association for the Study of Anti-Semitism, to be headquartered at Yale in New Haven, Conn., is an outgrowth of the Yale Initiative on the Study of…

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Wolf to Georgetown: Detail Use of Saudi Millions

http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/607 A U.S. congressman is asking Georgetown University about its academic scrutiny of Saudi Arabia and its use of $20 million donated by a Saudi prince in 2005. U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) wrote to Georgetown President John DeGioia Thursday,…

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