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ADL’s campus antisemitism report card rewards some – but not all – colleges that worked with Trump

March 11, 2026March 12, 2026Sara Wood

Universities that reached settlements with the Trump administration last year to preserve federal funding mostly received higher marks on the Anti-Defamation League’s campus antisemitism “report cards,” released this week. Columbia, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, all of which struck deals in order to end federal civil rights investigations and some […]

A Gen Z student activist against antisemitism is running for State Assembly on Long Island

February 3, 2026February 3, 2026Sara Wood

This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Will Sussman first made his name on campus, not on the campaign trail — pushing back against what he described as antisemitism in student politics, faculty […]

Cooper Union settles Title VI antisemitism case with 10 Jewish students who were barricaded in library after Oct. 7

January 8, 2026January 9, 2026Sara Wood

The Cooper Union has settled a Title VI case of antisemitic discrimination dating back to a highly publicized incident in which Jewish students were trapped in a school library by protesters after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. The Manhattan engineering college has agreed to pay an unspecified sum to 10 affected Jewish students, create a […]

Northwestern agrees to pay $75M, void encampment deal to end Trump’s antisemitism investigation

December 1, 2025December 2, 2025Sara Wood

Northwestern University will pay $75 million to the Trump administration to recover nearly $800 million in federal funding frozen by an ongoing antisemitism investigation, in the second-largest agreement of its kind. The deal, which will last for three years, also means the Chicago-area private university will no longer abide by an earlier agreement it struck […]

Is dining-hall matzah ‘DEI’? The answer isn’t clear to UVA’s pushed-out ex-president.

November 14, 2025November 14, 2025Sara Wood

Months after being forced out as president of the University of Virginia, Jim Ryan is still pondering Passover food. More specifically, Ryan, who was pushed out of the role over the summer amid mounting GOP pressure on the public university, cited the topic as an example of why he was confused about the “DEI ban” […]

Cornell inks $60M deal with Trump administration to resolve antisemitism claims

November 10, 2025November 11, 2025Sara Wood

Cornell University will pay $60 million to the Trump administration to resolve ongoing antisemitism investigations and unfreeze $250 million in federal funds, becoming the fourth Ivy League school and fifth overall to strike such a deal. The deal came weeks after another agreement signed by the University of Virginia, and also followed the resolution of […]

In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech

November 7, 2025November 7, 2025Sara Wood

A sudden change in leadership at Indiana University’s Jewish studies program has erupted into a bitter internal feud, pitting a new interim director against faculty and students who say he is undermining academic freedom and reshaping the program’s direction amid national tensions over Israel and campus speech. The turmoil began with the abrupt replacement of […]

Northwestern University’s Jewish president resigns amid pressures over handling of campus antisemitism

September 4, 2025September 4, 2025Sara Wood

After more than a year of strife over his handling of campus antisemitism, the Jewish president of Northwestern University says he is stepping down weeks before the start of the school’s fall semester. Michael Schill’s resignation announcement Thursday comes after the Trump administration has frozen nearly $800 million in federal grants to the private Evanston, […]

California Jewish groups say Trump $1B demand of UCLA ‘does not make Jewish students safer’

August 12, 2025August 12, 2025Sara Wood

A coalition of California’s leading Jewish groups has come out against the Trump administration’s recent demand that the University of California, Los Angeles pay $1 billion to resolve federal antisemitism allegations. The proposed $1 billion settlement “does not make Jewish students safer,” the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California argued Tuesday. JPAC’s statement comes days […]

White House revokes Harvard’s right to enroll international students, including Jews from abroad

May 22, 2025May 23, 2025Sara Wood

The Trump administration has revoked its permission for Harvard University to enroll international students, in a dramatic escalation of what the Department of Homeland Security says is an effort to curb antisemitism at the university. The move “means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal […]