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Members of Harvard University's Jewish community gathered for a Hanukkah lighting ceremony on campus Tuesday night, which was interrupted by somebody saying that antisemitism was a myth.

Harvard Students Hold Silent ‘Study-In’ at Widener Library, Rally at Mass. Hall to Call for End of War in Gaza | News | The Harvard Crimson

Rabbi David Wolpe quit Harvard's antisemitism task force after joining back in October following President Claudine Gay's controversial testimony before House lawmakers

Claudine Gay has faced calls for her resignation following testimony to a congressional inquiry

Yes, Elise Stefanik set a trap. But the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT didn’t have to walk right into it.

Almost everyone has been piling on that pitiful troika of elite university presidents after their congressional testimony on Tuesday. A few other folks, people I know and respect like Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times and Jay Michaelson of The Daily Beast, have added some valuable nuance, arguing that in context, the position the presidents were defending actually had merit.I agree with the main points both made in their columns—in effect, that Republican Representative Elise Stefan...

Fifteen Questions: Yegvenia Albats on Journalism in the USSR, Freedom of the Press, and Her Bibliophilia | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard’s Pro-Palestine Protests are Now Led by Unrecognized Student Groups. Will Harvard Sanction Them? | News | The Harvard Crimson

Antisemitism is the 'canary in the coal mine' for other discriminatory practices at Harvard. ~ Bill Ackman The rabid antisemitism at our elite universities, beginning with Harvard, isn't the only serious conflict. These universities have allowed students to shut down speakers not alig

There are now federal investigations into complaints of discrimination at several colleges.