Several major Jewish academic institutions have launched an inter-institutional eLearning Faculty Fellowship to promote creative ideas on the use of educational technology in Jewish higher education. On May 7, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), and Yeshiva University (YU) started the first of five live sessions focusing on tools and strategies to improve Jewish student engagement and education. The workshops are all led by the Columbia Center for …More

A Bronx school is earning international attention for its newest addition—a professionally crafted Holocaust center. The Bronx High School of Science established the Holocaust Museum and Studies Center in its basement with the help of a now-deceased teacher who promoted Holocaust education among his students. Stuart Elenko worked at the Bronx school until his death in 2009, teaching a Holocaust Leadership Class. While teaching, he shared his extensive collection of Holocaust artifacts with his pupils. In …More

Fashion designer John Galliano will not teach at a New York fashion school following a student protest. Parsons, the New School For Design reversed its decision to hire Galliano to teach a class after being presented a petition against the move with 2,000 signatures, the Forward reported, noting that the protest was led by Jewish students. Galliano was fired as the top designer at Christian Dior two years ago after being arrested for making anti-Semitic statements at a Paris bar. “We do not want money …More

This academic year has posed significant challenges for pro-Israel students on California college campuses. Divestment resolutions have been considered by over half a dozen campus student governments and have yielded a range of results spanning from indefinite tabling to unanimous passage. For activists whose campuses passed a non-binding resolution calling for the university to pull funds from companies that profit from Israeli partnerships, the next step has been confusing, often leading into uncharted …More

The Oberlin College Student Senate endorsed a resolution that calls for the college to divest from six companies that do business in the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem and Gaza. Following a three-hour discussion, the resolution was approved "by majority" on Monday, the Oberlin College Students for a Free Palestine said in a news release. The six companies are Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard, Group 4 Securicor, SodaStream, Elbit Systems and Veolia. The Students for a Free Palestine group at Oberlin said it would …More

Tablet Magazine has created a new project called “The Herzl Society: A New Conversation on Zionism’s Past and Future,” to encourage the topic of Zionism among college students. [Tablet] UC Berkley students denounced the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement’s involvement of an anti-Israel bill. [Times of Israel] The Canadian Jewish News is faced with potential closure, threatening the Jewish voice in Canada. [Huffington Post] The Sephardi Voices project has collected the firsthand …More

Despite the stress of finals, Rutgers University students are taking a break from their studies to advocate for Israel… through paint. Last Wednesday, Rutgers Hillel set up a 20-foot mural in front of their building on College Avenue for students to graffiti about Israel. “Any student who wants to contribute to the graffiti wall can do as such all day today,” Jerry Enis, Rutgers Hillel’s communications consultant, told Israel Campus Beat before the event. “While they are painting, …More

A Michigan mother is making headlines after calling on state schools to ban a “pornographic” version of Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl.” Gail Horalek filed a formal complaint after noticing a copy of the book her seventh-grader was reading contained passages referring to the labia and clitoris. "The problem is the school is giving the seventh graders inappropriate material and not explaining it to the parents," Horalek said. “If they watch any kind of movie with a …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israel Innovation News The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has started teaching its global course in partnership with Coursera, which provides free online courses from senior lecturers at some of the world’s leading universities. The course, Synapses, Neurons and Brains, has approximately 40,000 students from around the world registered, including students from Lebanon, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, India, Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco and Algeria, as …More

Question: What do you get when you mix finger painting with cross-college training conventions and games on college quads? Answer: Israel Peace Week celebrations on college campuses across America. Israel Peace Week began as a grassroots initiative a few years ago when a group of Hasbara fellows on college campuses were looking for a way to spread the message that Israel wants peace. Since then, it has been adapted by students at dozens of campuses who devise new names and new methods to capture the attention of …More

The man known as the British Indiana Jones led a team of students on an expedition to Papua New Guinea, to track a potential lost Tribe of Israel. Professor Tudor Parfitt was working in Australia 10 years ago when a leader of the Gogodala tribe of Papua New Guinea approached him with a theory—that his tribe was linked to the Lemba tribe of southern Africa. Professor Parfitt had already proven the Lemba to be an ancient Jewish tribe, and the Lemba man wanted the professor to do the same for his …More

Yale University made collegiate history this week, electing the university’s first Israeli student body president. Daniel Avraham is a 24-year-old Jerusalem native and second year student at Yale, enrolled in the ethics and economics program. He will serve as head of YCC, the university’s student union. Avraham is a graduate of the Gymnasia Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv and a past IDF intelligence officer. When Avraham graduates, he’ll join the esteemed ranks of alumni like Bill Clinton, …More