education

Canadian union seeks ban on Israeli academics

Canada’s largest union said it will seek a ban on Israeli academics working at Ontario universities.

By Ron Csillag January 6, 2009 8:59 pm

Why colleges want more Jews

That’s the question Inside Higher Ed set out to explore. And the answer, while it might warm Jewish hearts, also trades liberally in stereotypes of Jewish academic and financial prowess. The story quotes Patti Mittleman, the Jewish chaplain at Muhlenberg College, a Lutheran school in Pennsylvania, who was "inundated" with inquiries after a newspaper reported […]

October 31, 2008 10:27 pm

Broad Foundation to give $400 million to Harvard-MIT venture

If you needed further proof that Jewish mega-donors trend toward giving to higher education, check out this scoop from the Chronicle of Philanthropy: “Eli and Edythe L. Broad will announce this morning that they are pledging $400-million to endow the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, in Cambridge, Mass., a biomedical-research center that is jointly […]

September 11, 2008 11:29 pm

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