The Sudanese government and a major rebel group from its southern Nuba Mountains on Sunday signed a document which paves.
Members will include the director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, Rabbi Dovid Yeichtel, and other UI professors and students, as well as community members.
The university announced in Nov. 2020 that it would be taking steps to address campus antisemitism, particularly what it described as incidents “that demonize or delegitimize Jewish and pro-Israel students or compare them to Nazis.”
“All Jewish students should feel confident that if they encounter a swastika on campus, the university stands with them in rejecting symbols of hate,” the statement said. “Anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at this university. We will stand united against all forms of anti-Semitism.”
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A billboard by YAFFED in front of a yeshiva, asking parents to think about their sons secular education. Schools in the ultra-Orthodox community are virtually all segregated by sex. (Courtesy)
JTA Advocates for improving secular studies in Hasidic yeshivas are getting an assist from an unlikely place: the federal case of a Hasidic man who has pleaded guilty to laundering drug money.
Zalman Zirkind of Montreal, but currently on house arrest in Brooklyn, is due to be sentenced Friday in US District Court in New York. Last summer he pleaded guilty to charges that carry a possible sentence of 11 to 14 years in prison.