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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 […]

Jews at Tufts are furious over ICE seizing a pro-Palestinian grad student. But they’re wary of joining protests for her.

April 4, 2025April 4, 2025Sara Wood

For the last year and a half, Tufts Students for Israel has battled against criticism of Israel on the Boston-area campus. But on Thursday, the group took a stance of a different kind: It published an op-ed in the campus newspaper advocating for the school’s most prominent pro-Palestinian student. “The detainment of Rümeysa Öztürk is […]

As ICE targets a Palestinian activist, some Jews are asking if this is the fight against antisemitism they signed up for

March 11, 2025March 14, 2025Sara Wood

The campus pro-Palestinian protests that erupted after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks united many Jewish students, parents and “defense” groups in a national fight against antisemitism, intimidation and the disruption of university life. But as the Trump administration has taken up the cause with gusto — most recently arresting, detaining and threatening to deport […]