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The U.S. Supreme Court overruled university affirmative action policies in June 2023. (Photo/JTA-Joe Daniel Price-Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

Jewish quotas were at the heart of Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

by Ron Kampeas June 30, 2023July 3, 2023

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Harvard’s 20th-century antisemitic Jewish quotas were a key part of the Supreme Court’s decision to gut affirmative action on Thursday, as the winning litigant and two conservative […]

Stanford University (Photo/File)
Posted inNews

Report on Stanford’s antisemitic quotas in 1950s sparks Jewish alums to link up

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2022
Stanford University from above (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area

Stanford apologizes for Jewish admissions quotas in the 1950s

by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA October 13, 2022October 13, 2022
Stanford University's campus from above / Wikimedia Commons
Posted inBay Area

Stanford to investigate claim that it had quotas for Jews in the 1950s

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 12, 2022
Bookshelf of old copies of J. Previous names of this publication have included Emanu-El and Jewish Bulletin. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inJewish Life

Opposition to college quotas (1950); Soviet dentistry (1980)

by J. Staff February 9, 2017December 17, 2018

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