http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/16/1010660/free-speech-at-issue-in-campus-israel-wars NEW YORK (JTA) — In the wake of the arrests of 11 University of California, Irvine students for disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Shalom Elcott, the president and chief executive of the Jewish…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=167725 NEW YORK – As J Street puts the finishing touches on plans to fan out into more than 20 communities with new local chapters, detractors in Philadelphia are crying foul over a kick-off event that the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” movement…
read moreThis past Thursday I had the pleasure to meet, greet and address nearly 300 faculty colleagues at a reception arranged by the Philadelphia Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia which was co-hosted by the Israeli Consul General of Philadelphia. I…
read moreSPME Editors’ Note: To share your thoughts on these article for publication, please send your comments to with your name and affiliation. Thank you. The New Realism: American Jews’ Views about Israel by Theodore SassonBrandeis University Dorothy and Julius Koppelman…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147860080&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull There is something about the Arab-Israeli conflict that does strange things to people. Even otherwise distinguished personalities, who in every other context are rational, sensible thinkers, become unrecognizable. The international law of self-defense is a case in point. It…
read moreSPME Editor’s Note: SPME prints this as a public service to its readers. Its publications does not constitute and endorsement of this effort. SPME has consistently taken a stand against academic boycotts and believes they are antithetical to academic freedom…
read moreWith the announcements on 1.15.09 of the US State Department of the Travel Alert to Israel, West Bank and Gaza, a number of colleges and universities have suspended study abroad opportunities for students and faculty. Among them are, to date,…
read morehttp://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/38587642.html The practice of universities acting in loco parentis – protecting students in place of parents – was long ago dismissed as inappropriate. So it was surprising to see the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Duke and a handful of other…
read moreReleased on the evening of January 28, 2009 as a reaction to events in the University of California system, University of Toronto, McGill University and with the withdrawal of study in Israel programs at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers and…
read morehttp://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090117_Mideast_strife_hits_study_abroad.html Concerned about increasing violence in the Gaza Strip, the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University have pulled back on study-abroad programs in Israel and the West Bank. Penn’s nursing program has postponed sending five students to Israel, and likely…
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