CUNY’s Law Faculty Unanimously Endorsed a Student-Led BDS Resolution—after CUNY’s Chancellor Unequivocally Rejected It
The move may result in serious legal consequences for the publicly funded law school.
June 2, 2022
CUNY’s Law Faculty Unanimously Endorsed a Student-Led BDS Resolution—after CUNY’s Chancellor Unequivocally Rejected It
The move may result in serious legal consequences for the publicly funded law school.
Last December, the student government of the City University of New York (CUNY) Law School adopted a resolution endorsing, “proudly and unapologetically,” the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. At the time, CUNY’s chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez cited a 2016 executive order from then-Governor Andrew Cuomo, which, he argued, precluded the public law school from participating in or supporting BDS. The matter might have ended there, Steven Lubet suggests, noting that many similar BDS initiatives at schools across the country have produced little practical effect. Last month, however, the law-school faculty council unanimously endorsed the student resolution, a move that Lubet argues “might jeopardize the law school’s legitimacy.”
June 2, 2022
China Threatens to Downgrade Relations with Israel over a Newspaper Interview with a Taiwanese Diplomat
A Chinese official also demanded that the Jerusalem Post delete the article.
The Secret Negotiations between Hitler and the Pope
The opening of Pope Pius XII’s archives sheds new light on his relations with the Third Reich and his attitude toward the “Jewish problem.”
The Jewish Converts of Antiquity
Stories from the Talmud and historical findings might shed light on an apparent Jewish population explosion in the post-biblical era.
Translating the Hebrew Bible Can Rob It of Its Ambiguity—and Readers of the Sacred Duty of Interpretation
The Koren Tanakh.