College

Applicants to Georgia State University received a welcome email for the 2024-25 school year. However, the email was sent in error to 1,500 applicants by the school's admissions office. Here, the campus celebrates its fall commencement exercises on Dec. 17, 2014, in Atlanta.

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National

1,500 college applicants thought they were accepted. They soon learned it was an error

3:50pm May 16, 2024

by Jonathan Franklin

Georgia State University says the students were not sent an official acceptance letter but "communication" from a department welcoming those who intend to major in a specific academic area.

American Jewish Committee issued a report earlier this year that found that 94% of Jews and 74% of all U.S. adults say antisemitism is a very serious or somewhat serious problem.

Religion
National

Concerns over antisemitism rise as Jews begin observing Passover

2:28pm April 23, 2024

by Jason DeRose

Protests on college campuses related to the Israel-Hamas War have many Jews nervous heading into the holiday.

Posters hung around the New York University campus in Greenwich Village, showing people kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 in Israel, are seen torn up and covered with pro-Palestinian graffiti.

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Education
World News

Colleges face pressure to curb antisemitism and Islamophobia

5:00am November 11, 2023

by Tovia Smith

The Biden Administration has told colleges they risk losing federal funding if they don't take aggressive steps to curb attacks on Jewish students, and harassment of pro-Palestinian students.

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