Tufts University
Lawrence S. Bacow, recently installed as president of Tufts University, likes to say that the naming of a Jewish college president is harldy newsworthy anymore. After all, MIT named Jerry Weisner in 1970, and since then Jewish presidents have reigned at prestigious institutions from Dartmouth to Harvard, Penn to Princeton ... And, the new Tufts head boasts, every door of the President's mansion on the Medford campus now hosts a mezzuzah, while the kitchen has been koshered for his family's use. Bacow's strong commitment to Judaism and the Jewish community is clear from his positions as a director of the Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly and a trustee of Hebrew College, and his wife's role as a trustee of Temple Emmanuel in Newton. He believes it is important for American Jews to 'speak up on behalf of Israel and to show their support visibly,' yet he understands the complexities of the situation."
Lawrence S. Bacow, recently installed as president of Tufts University, likes to say that the naming of a Jewish college president is harldy newsworthy anymore. After all, MIT named Jerry Weisner in 1970, and since then Jewish presidents have reigned at prestigious institutions from Dartmouth to Harvard, Penn to Princeton ... And, the new Tufts head boasts, every door of the President's mansion on the Medford campus now hosts a mezzuzah, while the kitchen has been koshered for his family's use. Bacow's strong commitment to Judaism and the Jewish community is clear from his positions as a director of the Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly and a trustee of Hebrew College, and his wife's role as a trustee of Temple Emmanuel in Newton. He believes it is important for American Jews to 'speak up on behalf of Israel and to show their support visibly,' yet he understands the complexities of the situation."
Harvard University
President: Lawrence Summers (replaced Neil Rudenstine)"I speak with you today not as President of the University but as a concerned member of our community about something that I never thought I would become seriously worried about -- the issue of anti-Semitism. I am Jewish identified but hardly devout."
Yale University - President: Richard L Levin
Princeton University - President: Harvey Shapiro (stepped down after 12 years, in 2001)
Dartmouth College
President: James O. Freedman (What being Jewish Means to Me - "I dearly wish that my father, who had confronted anti-semitism in finding his early teaching positions, had lived long enough to see the installation of Jewish presidents at numerous Ivy League and Big Ten universities."). More hysterical Judeocentric weirdness from Freedman.
Cornell University - President: Jeffry Lehman
University of Pennsylvania
President: Judith Rodin [succeeded in 2004 by Amy Gutmann] * "REMARKS: We ask: 'Where are we, ourselves?' not just, 'Where am I?' We pray collectively, both to recognize our collective responsibilities and to acknowledge the failings and limitations that are common to us all. In this way, we express the essential inter-relatedness between our own actions and the larger community in and for which we act."* "[T]he University of Pennsylvania will not support diestment from Israel, boycotts of Israeli scholars and scientists, or any effort to stifle the free expression of diverse ideas and opinions about the Middle East conflict by our faculty and students."* "[T]argeting Israel for divestment and boycotts is wrong." Penn's Next President,University of Pennsylvania"Amy Gutmann, the Provost and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, was elected the University of Pennsylvania’s next president by Penn's Board of Trustees at its Feb. 20 [2004] stated meeting.
Northwestern University
President: Henry Bienen, also Jewish, Northwestern hosts an annual summer Institute for Holocaust and Jewish Civilization .... President Bienen serves as the honorary chair for the Institute.
University of California
President: Richard Atkinson (former Chancellor of UC - San Diego)(Atkinson is a member of the Board of Directors of the avidly pro-Israel Koret Foundation, which features its "Israel Emergency Fund"
Stanford University - Chairman of the Board: Isaac Stein
McGill University (Canada)
Principal: Bernard Shapiro (stepped down in 2002).Shapiro has been replaced by Heather Munroe-Blum (she is married to Jewish screenwriter Len Blum).
Caltech - President: David Baltimore
Carnegie Mellon University - President: Jared L. Cohon
West Chester University
President: Madeleine Wing Adler - WCU is the headquarters of the National Association for Holocaust Studies.
Bard College - President: Leon Botstein
Connecticut College
President: Norman Fainstein
University of Denver,President: Marc Holtzman
Swarthmore College - President: Alfred H. Bloom, Dean of the College: Robert Gross
George Washington University
President: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
University of Chicago,Trustees
Chairman of the board: James S. Crown, Vice-Chairman: Andrew M. Alper Vice-Chairman: Paula Wolff Secretary of the Board of Trustees: Kineret S. Jaffe Honorary Trustee: Hugo Sonnenschein
University of Nebraska,Chancellor: Harvey Perlman
Lafayette College
President: Daniel Weiss succeeds (December 2004) Arthur J. Rothkopf
York University (Canada).
Goucher College - (Baltimore) President: Sanford J Ungar
Temple University - (Philadelphia),President: David Adamy
New School for Social Research - Dean of Graduate Faculty: Richard Bernstein
University of Alberta (Canada)
Has had two Jewish presidents: Max Wyman and Myer Horowitz.
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