Charles Martel
Hall of Famer
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2007
- Messages
- 8,484
MEDIA:
• NBC/Universal Studios is owned by the Brian Roberts.
• CBS/MTV/Paramount Pictures/Viacom is owned by Murray Rothstein (aka Sumner Redstone).
• ABC/Disney is run by Robert Iger, who is Chairman & CEO.
• CNN/Time Magazine is primarily owned by Aviv Nevo, with Jeff Zucker, as president.
• The New York Times is owned by the Jewish Sulzberger family, the major influence behind Columbia University. Arthur Sulzberger Jr is current Chairman of The NY Times.
• Numerous Newspapers & Magazines throughout North America are owned by the Jewish Newhouse family.
UNIVERSITIES:
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
Tufts University:
"Lawrence S. Bacow, recently installed as president of Tufts University, likes to say that the naming of a Jewish college president is hardly 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."
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.")
Cornell University,
President: Jeffrey Lehman
University of Pennsylvania,
President: Judith Rodin [succeeded in 2004 by Amy Gutmann]
* "KOL NIDRE 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 divestment 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
"Steven L. Isenberg, who has been Adelphi University's board chairman since the appointment of this group of trustees by the New York State Board of Regents in February 1997, was named interim president of Adelphi on July 26, when Matthew Goldstein announced his departure to become chancellor of the City University of New York."
West Chester University,
President: Madeleine Wing Adler
WCU is the headquarters of the National Association for Holocaust Studies.
(Note from a JTR contributor: Dr. Lawrence Davidson of the WCU history dept. says that "Israelis have come to believe in an alternate history." See page 84, April '03 issue of Washington Report On Middle East Affairs magazine.)
Bard College,
President: Leon Botstein
Connecticut College,
President: Norman Fainstein,
Report of the Presidential Commission on a Pluralistic Community at Connecticut College
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 (heir to the wealthy Jewish Crown family -- General Dynamics, etc.)
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),
Chair of the Board of Governors: Marshall A. Cohen
-- The York Foundation (the university's fund-raising source) includes Cohen, Judith Cohen, Paul E. Marcus, H. Barry Gales, Alonna Goldfarb, Maxwell Gotleib, Julia Koschitzky, Honey Sherman, and Howard Sokolowski, many with activist ties to Israel.
Goucher College, (Baltimore)
President: Sanford J. Ungar
Temple University (Philadelphia),
President: David Adamy
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