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A major campus Hillel director’s physical attack on a journalist with whom he disagreed politically, has put the organization’s national leadership on the defensive. After an address by Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz last October, UCLA Hillel director Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, a renowned left-wing activist, physically assaulted pro-Zionist journalist Rachel Neuwirth. The Los Angeles district attorney chose not to press charges, but rather required Rabbi Seidler-Feller to attend 36 hours of anger management training at his own expense. The rabbi was also ordered to issue Ms. Neuwirth a “heartfelt” apology. The event was first reported in the UCLA Daily Bruin...

Penn's Muslim Students Association recently invited Bill Baker, head of Christians and Muslims for Peace, to speak at Penn's recent Islam Awareness Week. What kind of awareness was Baker's $5,000 fee supposed to bring? Baker chaired the Populist Party, founded and bankrolled by Willis Carto, best known for his neo-Nazi Institute for Historical Review - which publishes pseudo-academic fabrications denying the Holocaust - and for his ties to the Ku Klux Klan, which has mutilated and/or murdered thousands of blacks. In 1988, the presidential candidate of his Populist Party was David Duke, former "Grand Wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan....

NEW YORK The campus Hillel at Rutgers University in New Jersey was vandalized this past Saturday morning. The attack took place one day after a member of a pro-Palestinian group hit Minister-without-Portfolio Natan Sharansky in the face with a cream pie. Sharansky was visiting to address students on Judaism's role in promoting democracy, peace, and justice. The group, New Jersey Solidarity, recently canceled an upcoming anti-Israel conference after members failed to file the necessary paperwork with the university. The attack, denounced as "cowardice" by Rutgers officials, included swastikas spray-painted on the Hillel building and a fraternity with mostly Jewish membership.

When Tzippy Farkas, 25, of Melbourne, Australia, went out on Tuesday night with two friends, security was very much on her mind. "We had discussed it many times and what the odds were that something would happen," said Farkas from her hospital bed in the Bikur Holim Hospital, Jerusalem. At 10:15 p.m., together with fellow Australians Tova Ross, 24, and Rachelle Rostiker, 25, she headed for Rehov Emek Refaim, taking a taxi in order to avoid the buses. "We reckoned a bomb might happen on a bus, but not in a caf ," she said. The group decided on Caf...