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Kopernik Observatory reopens to the public VESTAL (WBNG) -- After being closed to the public for 16 months, Kopernik Observatory is welcoming people back. Friday, the science center hosted its first day of summer camp and at 7PM Friday, it will be the first Friday Night Program where everyone is invited to come and gaze at the stars, weather permitting. "It's great to have people back here...there is still something about looking through a scope and uniformly getting the 'Oh! Oh! I see it! I see it!' kind of reaction, that is what we are all about here" explained...

The UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Executive Committee held a special meeting Monday to discuss the Board of Trustees’ failure to grant tenure to acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.  The committee unanimously passed a resolution asking the board to immediately take up the matter of tenure for Hannah-Jones. “The Faculty Executive Committee strongly urges the Board of Trustees to uphold the long tradition of respect for recommendations from faculty bodies in hiring and tenure cases,” the committee wrote. “And to take up the matter of tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones immediately, and to ex...

St. Louis Public Radio Deeann Phillips has spent more than a year with the Women's Night Program and hopes to be able to move into her own apartment in the next few months. The program supports women experiencing homelessness who are also struggling with mental health disorders, substance abuse or domestic violence. Last March, Deeann Phillips moved from a rural area of Illinois into a tent encampment near the Mississippi River in St. Louis — a jarring experience that left her feeling frightened and isolated. “It was such a culture shock,” said Phillips, who relied on donated food and ...

Get email notification for articles from Jonathan Shamir Follow Apr. 18, 2021 7:24 PM Last month, two new definitions of antisemitism – The Nexus Document and the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) – sought to challenge the widely-accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. Both documents focus on the area that is increasingly dividing global Jewry: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its relationship to antisemitism. The IHRA working definition has been adopted by governments and institutions the world over, including the U.S. State...

As the 2016 Internal Holocaust Remembrance Association’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism continues to be adopted by organizations and universities who find it useful as a way of identifying instances of anti-Semitism—and especially the “new anti-Semitism” which couches itself as criticism of Israel—predictably, though unsurprisingly, groups that wish to continue to slander and libel the Jewish state have come out in opposition to it. What bothers these indignant individuals? Possibly the section of the IHRA definition that suggests that “Applying doubl...