The Institute for Jewish & Community Research (IJCR) is an independent, non-partisan think tank that provides innovative research and pragmatic policy analysis on a broad range of issues including racial and religious identity, philanthropy, and anti-Semitism.
Facing the Charge of Racism: New Research on Jewish Student Identity
Aryeh Weinberg The Institute for Jewish & Community Research
Accusations of racism have become a staple of anti-Israel protest on campus and, for Jewish students, these charges can negatively impact their college experience and raise important questions about their Jewish identity. The irony of the racism accusation is that young Jews are firmly committed to the global world in which they live. Read more...
Following the Money: A Look at Jewish Foundation Giving
Erik Ludwig and Aryeh Weinberg The Institute for Jewish and Community Research
IJCR’s Study of Jewish foundations finds that private foundations continue to provide significant support toward traditional centralized organizations while also seeding innovative Jewish projects and organizations. Read more...
Alone on the Quad: Understanding Jewish Isolation on Campus
Aryeh Weinberg, The Institute for Jewish and Community Research
IJCR’s Study of Religious Tolerance on Campus confirms that a serious problem does indeed exist on campuses for Jewish students, and all students by extension. Read more...
ADL and AJC Suffer Big Drop in Donations
Nathan Guttman, The Forward, December 9, 2011
IJCR's Aryeh Weinberg says all signs indicate that major multi-issue organizations need to learn to adapt to the new reality, mainly by offering their donors more of a say on how their contributions are used. Read more...
Office for Civil Rights to Investigate IJCR Complaint against Columbia University
Kenneth L. Marcus, September 28, 2011
IJCR recently filed a complaint with the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights alleging a Middle East studies department chair unlawfully "steered" a Jewish student away from enrollment in a class taught by controversial Professor Joseph Massad. Read more...
AJC Gets it Right on Campus anti-Semitism, at Last
Kenneth L. Marcus, Forward, August 23, 2011
In early August, the American Jewish Committee's executive director, David Harris, finally renounced his organization's highly controversial joint statement on campus anti-Semitism. Read more...
Jewish Identity
and Civil Rights in America Kenneth L. Marcus
What does it mean to be Jewish? This ancient question has become a pressing civil rights controversy. "…a seminal work on Jews and racial identity, distilling the major arguments surrounding the federal government’s decision not to investigate allegations of anti-Semitism on American colleges and universities...” Marc Dollinger. Read more...
The UnCivil University: Intolerance on College Campuses, Revised Edition Gary A. Tobin, Aryeh K. Weinberg, and Jenna Ferer.
Publishers Weekly says, “In this alarming, well-sourced analysis, researchers for the IJCR find anti-Israel propagandists using the banner of academic freedom to intimidate, marginalize and indoctrinate..." Read more...
The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion Gary A. Tobin and Dennis R. Ybarra (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008)
The Trouble with Textbooks sounds the alarm about how textbooks disparage some groups and teach historical distortions. Our schools are supposed to instill young people with American values and provide students with the knowledge necessary for good citizenship. Instead, textbooks are filled with mistakes and misrepresentations.
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Jewish Identity
The UnCivil University: Intolerance on College Campuses, Revised Edition
The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion