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Yavneh students celebrate "fantastic" results

August 15, 2024, 2:55 pm

A-level success for Jewish schools

JCoSS achieved "best ever" results while over half of JFS grades were A*-A

By JN Reporter

UJS president Edward Isaacs discusses rising antisemitism on campus

July 5, 2024, 5:35 pm

OPINION: How I coped with the worst antisemitism crisis ever faced by Jewish students

Stepping down as Union of Jewish Students president, Edward Issacs finds reasons for renewed hope for Jewish campus life after the horrors and repercussions of 7 October

By Edward Isaacs

Sunak shared this news during a barnstorming and passionate speech to the annual CST dinner on Wednesday night

May 9, 2024, 10:44 am

Sunak says university leaders have moral duty to protect Jewish students from intimidation

University vice-chancellors have 'personal responsibility' for keeping Jewish students safe, says the prime minister

By Lee Harpin

Students at the encampment at University College London

May 3, 2024, 4:18 pm

OPINION: This undeniably, overwhelmingly, feels different for all Jews

In a powerful extract from her essay in the latest issue of Jewish Quarterly, Hadley Freeman reflects on why universities have become the sites of some of the most sickening examples of anti-Jewish hate since 7/10

By Hadley Freeman

Prince William with 94-year-old Holocaust survivor Renee Salt at the Western Marble Arch Synagogue

February 29, 2024, 3:43 pm

Prince William denounces surge in antisemitism during synagogue visit

Royal is clearly moved by his talks with young people and with Holocaust survivor Renee Salt at Western Marble Arch

By Jenni Frazer

February 29, 2024, 7:53 am

PM announces £72m to fund security for Jewish communities

Rishi Sunak gets tough on antisemitism, pledges more funds for CST and is summoning university leaders to insist they do more for Jewish students

By Jenni Frazer

February 9, 2024, 11:45 am

OPINION: University of Edinburgh JSoc’s fight against hostile campus protests

How the fastest-growing Jewish society in the UK is responding to the challenges faced by Jewish students in higher education in the wake of the Gaza war.

By Amelia Barzilay

The empty Shabbat table in hostage square. Pic: Emma Levy

February 6, 2024, 4:50 pm

OPINION: Transferring the #BringThemHome campaign to UK campuses

Ahead of a national challah bake on Thursday, Leeds University JSoc president Emma Levy encourages fellow students to follow in the footsteps of the Jewish activists who fought to free Soviet Jewry

By Emma Levy

A graduation at St Andrews and (inset) the rector Stella Maris. Picture: St Andrews University

December 19, 2023, 9:32 am

Exclusive: St Andrews University will ask external investigator to look into rector’s actions

Decision follows outcry over email to students from Stella Maris accusing Israel of genocide and apartheid and her subsequent refusal to apologise

By Beatrice Sayers

December 12, 2023, 12:55 pm

Technology firm offers jobs to students leaving university over antisemitism

Palantir has opened up 180 immediate positions as the company criticises US university leaders for not condemning genocidal hate speech

By Candice Krieger

December 6, 2023, 10:53 am

TikTok ‘fuels antisemitism’, despite telling JN it’s deleted 12m hate videos since 7 October

Survey links social media platform to a surge in anti-Israel bias among young people as Pro Palestinian content appears to dominate the narrative

By Candice Krieger

November 10, 2023, 10:27 am

Police urged to probe ‘antisemitic attack’ on first-year university students

Flat used by Jewish undergraduates at Nottingham Trent is broken into and trashed, with hateful, threatening graffiti allegedly daubed on walls

By Lee Harpin

September 7, 2023, 10:36 am

University Jewish Chaplaincy gathers for annual training seminar

16 advocates for Jewish students at universities across the UK hold event to strengthen its nationwide support network

By Michelle Rosenberg

Luciana Berger during a press conference at which she announced her resignation from the Labour Party. (Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

June 11, 2023, 12:32 am

Standing ovation for Berger as she gives first Labour speech since return to the party

Luciana Berger gave the keynote speech to the rejuvenated Labour Students group at their conference in Edinburgh

By Lee Harpin

May 22, 2023, 12:42 pm

New higher education report reveals Jewish students ‘underlying fear of being targeted’

New parliamentary Taskforce on Antisemitism in Higher Education report says it is 'commonplace' for students not to wear 'certain clothing or jewellery around campus because it would make them visibly identifiable as Jewish'

By Lee Harpin

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