Author: Jane Coleman

NY Times Runs Yet Another Suspiciously-Timed Hit Piece on Hasidic Yeshivas, Casts Them as “Lawbreakers”

Posted by Jane Coleman on July 03, 2023 23 Comments

NYT dropped the article just before the Sabbath of a holiday weekend, so that those affected could not respond for at least 24 hours....

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Biden Admin Secretly Ended Trump Policy of Cooperation With Israeli Science and Tech Institutions in Judea and Samaria

Posted by Jane Coleman on June 27, 2023 24 Comments

Former Ambassador David M. Friedman on U.S. boycott of Israeli institutions in the so-called West Bank: "Make no mistake. The United States, by this action, is embracing the BDS Movement."...

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Middlebury College Eugenics Hypocrisy Revealed In Mead Chapel De-Naming Dispute

Posted by Jane Coleman on June 15, 2023 18 Comments

The school de-named Mead Chapel because of a single speech by the namesake, ignoring that Middlebury was a hotbed of eugenics support for decades. Shouldn't the entire school be renamed by that logic?...

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Lawsuit Contesting De-Naming of Hastings Law School Can Move Forward, CA Appellate Court Rules

Posted by Jane Coleman on June 12, 2023 10 Comments

The court rejected the defendants' bid to have the suit dismissed under the anti-SLAPP statute, rejecting claim that de-naming lawsuit was an attack on their free speech....

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White House Antisemitism Plan Succumbs To Leftist Pressure on Defining Antisemitism

Posted by Jane Coleman on June 04, 2023 13 Comments

Under the guise of "inclusivity," the document leaves “antisemitism” so poorly defined that it creates a pretext for permitting it instead of a plan to stop it....

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NEA Teachers Union Sued By Barrington (RI) Teachers Fired For Refusing Covid Vax, Allege Union Complicit

Posted by Jane Coleman on May 25, 2023 16 Comments

Teachers' Lawyer Greg Piccirilli: "The union's actions were a complete abdication of their legal obligation to vigorously defend these teachers from termination."...

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Exclusive Video Interview: Former VT Governor On His Challenge To Middlebury College’s De-Naming Iconic Mead Chapel

Posted by Jane Coleman on May 14, 2023 12 Comments

James Douglas: "They took the name off the building without even knowing for whom the building was named."...

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Total Vindication: Full Reinstatement and Back Pay For Three Barrington (RI) Teachers Fired For Refusing Covid Vax

Posted by Jane Coleman on May 11, 2023 31 Comments

Teachers' lawyer Greg Piccirilli: "The teachers have been made whole. It is as if they were never fired." ...

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Embattled UPenn Law Prof Amy Wax Sets the Record Straight: “mainstream media coverage has been agenda-driven”

Posted by Jane Coleman on April 23, 2023 26 Comments

Wax: "The mainstream media coverage has been agenda-driven ...

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Yeshiva U Fight Against Order It Recognize Student Pride Alliance Suffers Blow When Denied “Leave To Appeal” to NY High Ct

Posted by Jane Coleman on April 02, 2023 19 Comments

YU's lawyer: “The parties will press forward with discovery,” after which Yeshiva can appeal to the Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the United States Supreme Court.”...

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“Imagine How it Feels to be One of Only Three Educators out of 21,000 in the State of Rhode Island to Lose Your Job Over This Vaccine”

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 29, 2023 17 Comments

RI Legislature Considers Bills to Reinstate Workers Fired For Refusing Vaccine, End Vaccine Mandates...

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Court Strikes NY State Regulations Threatening Orthodox Jewish Yeshivas Under “Substantial Equivalency” Test

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 24, 2023 28 Comments

Court finds the state education department exceeded its authority in requiring religious schools to provide the substantial equivalent of secular education: "Parents should be given a reasonable opportunity to prove that the substantial equivalency requirements for their children's education are satisfied by instruction provided through...

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Distinguished Law Faculty Call on ABA to Reconsider Resolution Defining Antisemitism It Pulled Under Activist Pressure

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 20, 2023 24 Comments

Law professors call the widely respected IHRA definition deleted by the ABA "an invaluable educational tool for understanding how Jews experience antisemitism today" ...

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NYC Comptroller to Yeshiva University: Recognize LGBTQ Club or Risk Public Funding

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 03, 2023 45 Comments

Comptroller warns: "I must urge your institution to change course and offer a secure environment for your LGBTQ+ students and staff to create a supportive space to rightfully express their full selves."...

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Arkansas ‘Anti-BDS’ Statute To Remain, SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Challenge

Posted by Jane Coleman on February 21, 2023 40 Comments

Refused to hear an appeal from an Eighth Circuit ruling upholding the law, the only circuit-level court to have addressed the merits of the anti-Israel-boycott statutes....

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It “Sucks” That Prof. Amy Wax Still Employed, U Penn Law Dean Declared On Recently Released 2019 Audio

Posted by Jane Coleman on February 16, 2023 31 Comments

Audio confirms Wax's firing was a foregone conclusion; it was just “gonna” take some time declared Dean Ted Ruger At Law Student 2019 Townhall Meeting....

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Tables Turned: Prof. Amy Wax, Charged With Wrongthink, Files Counter-Grievance Against U Penn Law Dean

Posted by Jane Coleman on January 26, 2023 31 Comments

Wax filing: “The Dean’s charges are nothing more than an attempt to use the sanction process … as a means of punishing and silencing the most powerful dissenting voice on campus and preventing students from being exposed to important conservative ideas.”...

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Yeshiva University Inches Its Way Back To SCOTUS By Appealing LGBTQ Club Ruling To NY’s Highest Court

Posted by Jane Coleman on January 19, 2023 15 Comments

The motion is the latest step on YU's path back to the United States Supreme Court....

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