Letter: Journalists ignored colleagues in Nazi Germany
new york (jta) | A letter circulating among journalism professionals urges a trade group to acknowledge U.S. journalists’ indifference to the plight of Jewish peers trapped in Nazi-era Germany.
The letter, drafted by Laurence Zuckerman, a former New York Times reporter, and Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, has garnered more than 70 signatures and eventually will be sent to the Newspaper Association of America.
It cites a recent article in Editor & Publisher uncovering evidence that the NAA’s predecessor, the American Newspaper Publishers Association, along with journalism schools and individual newspapers, did little to use immigration waivers to rescue Jewish journalists from Nazi Germany.
Hillel: NYU has most Jewish students
new york (jta) | New York University has the most Jewish college students of any U.S. school, according to Hillel.
It’s the first time the national Jewish student organization has put together such a list. NYU has 6,500 Jewish students, followed by the University of Florida in Gainesville and the University of Maryland, College Park, with 5,400 each.
The complete list of schools is available at www.hillel.org.
Harvard president to leave his post
cambridge, mass. (ap) | The Jewish president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, announced this week that he would resign following five years at the helm of the Ivy League university.
Facing the second no-confidence vote by faculty members in a year, Summers announced he would leave June 30, bringing to a close the briefest tenure of any Harvard president since 1862.
Shortly after he took office, a handful of prominent black studies professors left the university after a dispute with him. Last year, he was criticized for suggesting that innate ability may partly explain why few women reach top science posts.
Volunteers needed for service projects
new york | American Jewish World Service is seeking applicants, ages 16 to 25, for its summer volunteer program.
There will be four overseas projects, each lasting seven weeks: building a school in Ghana; constructing homes in an area hit by Hurricane Stan in Guatemala; working on an agricultural project in Thailand; and digging a water system in Honduras.
The application deadline is March 31. For more information, go to www.ajws.org, or contact Sonia Gordon-Walinsky at [email protected].