On campus…
🏫 Harvard Divinity School named Rabbi Shaul Magid — known for advocating for Jews to live outside of Israel — its first Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence. He has previously taught at Dartmouth, Indiana University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. The Divinity School suspended one of its programs in March in part over accusations it was biased against Israel. (Harvard, Forward)
🩺 The University of California, San Francisco fired a medical school professor accused by Jewish colleagues of repeatedly posting antisemitic content, over a year after the complaints began. (Jewish Insider)
🧑🏫 A tenured Jewish professor at Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College, where about 20% of the students are Jewish, was accused of being anti-Zionist and a self-hating Jew. She was fired for her politics, she says, worrying others in academia. (New York Times)
And elsewhere…
🇫🇷 French police arrested a man originally from Gaza who attacked a rabbi in a Paris suburb. It was the second time in a week the rabbi was assaulted. (JTA)
🎤 A Brazilian comedian was sentenced to eight years in prison for “bigoted and discriminatory” jokes about Jews, Black people and the LGBTQ+ community, among other groups. (Washington Post)
🦈 A rare whale shark — the largest fish in the world — was seen swimming Sunday among Red Sea coral reefs off the southern coast of Israel. (Times of Israel)
✡️ Julie Platt’s three-year tenure as board chair of the Jewish Federations of North America is ending this summer; the period was marked by the end of the pandemic, wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and a rise in campus antisemitism. “We don’t have the luxury in this moment to be divided,” she said in an exit interview. (eJewishPhilanthropy)
Shiva calls ► Jillian Sackler, a philanthropist and a member of the Sackler family at the center of the Purdue Pharma OxyContin scandal, died at 84 ... Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, a former death row inmate whose story of wrongful conviction was featured in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated, died at 78.
