Chancellor Charles B. Reed California State University Chancellor's Office 401 Golden Shore Long Beach, CA 90802-4210 SUBJECT:  Biased actions and writings of CSUN Provost and Interim President Harry Hellenbrand Dear Chancellor Reed: We members of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) are outraged that a provost and acting president of a CSU...

  Wisdom is often found at the Aristotelian mean. In the debate over campus anti-Semitism, alarmists are too often pitted against quietists. The former see danger behind every corner, while the latter don't see it until it is too late. In fact, the Jewish community can only succeed if it takes more measured and less polarizing positions on what is happening in American higher education. ...

  Within Jewish communities here at UC Santa Cruz and elsewhere, the question of Jewish identity in relation to Israel is one without any clear answer. For some, Jewishness is intimately tied to Israel, inseparable from it. For others, the state of Israel does not define nor determine their Jewish identity. When Hebrew language lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin filed a federal complaint in...

  American Jewry's umbrella organization for domestic issues has called on Congress to expand a key provision of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act to protect students from discrimination on the basis of religion. But the nascent effort has already raised the hackles of some Jewish officials who worry that this could open a can of worms over the separation of religion and state. The...

  NEW YORK, May 9, 2012 -- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticized the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) today for adopting a resolution at its annual plenum on Sunday, which addresses anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activity on college campuses. Rather than fully embracing the October 2010 policy of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which now...