The new OU Kosher App provides handy on the go and up to date information about kosher certifications | photo by flickr user patrick-allen (CC BY-SA 2.0)

No Jews in the Ivy League [Caroline Glick]

Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, rails against an upcoming conference at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government which begins with disputing Israel’s right to exist.

“The embrace of the cause of Israel’s destruction by so many celebrity professors today is part and parcel of the destruction of the US higher education system. At the Harvard conference, not a drop of truth will be spoken by any of the eminent Jew hating participants. Students who attend will be presented with lies dripping with moralistic gobbledygook and be told that they are enlightened for embracing this sewage. “

Kosher? There’s an App for that [Reuters]

The OU recently released an updated version of their OU Passover App for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Called OU Kosher, it provides up to date information on a product’s kosher certification, as well as whether or not it is kosher for Passover. The application also updates when a product is no longer OU certified, or when new products gain certification.

NYPD invades privacy [Huffington Post]

New documents obtained by the Associated Press reveal that the NYPD spied on hundreds of Muslim college students throughout the northeast. The operation, the documents reveal, was designed to target Muslim Student Associations as possible stepping stones for some to pursue a career in terrorism. NYPD spokesmen provided a list of 12 people arrested domestically and abroad for terrorism with former ties to MSAs.

“Student groups were of particular interest to the NYPD because they attract young Muslim men, a demographic that terrorist groups frequently draw from. Police worried about which Muslim scholars were influencing these students and feared that extracurricular activities such as paintball outings could be used as terrorist training.”

Attacked for an Editorial [Huffington Post]

A student who published an editorial in her school’s newspaper attacking supporters of California’s recently repealed Proposition 8 was attacked last week. Bridgewater State University officials have condemned the incident, and are holding a rally in her support.

“As the Patriot Ledger is reporting, Destinie Mogg-Barkalow was allegedly approached by a man and a woman who appeared to be fellow students in a parking lot at Bridgewater State University last week. After the pair asked Mogg-Barkalow, who is openly gay, if she wrote the pro-marriage equality article which appeared in The Comment, the university’s student newspaper, the woman punched her in the face, leaving a bruise.”