Columbia University

The Italian Jew Who Wrote Some of Mozart’s Most Famous Operas

Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist.

Robert Marshall

March 17 2023 12:01AM

An Up-Close Look at Columbia University’s Judaica Treasures

A virtual tour.

Michelle Margolis

July 21 2022 12:01AM

When Columbia University’s President Welcomed the Nazi Ambassador to Campus

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning college president’s troubling silence during World War II.

Matthew Wills

June 8 2022 12:01AM

At America’s Best Universities, Biblical Religion Is a Curiosity, if Not a Menace

When an administrator at Columbia told Jewish students to violate Rosh Hashanah.

Meir Soloviechik

Oct. 20 2021 12:01AM

Even In a Pandemic, Columbia Students Promote BDS

They can’t vote in person right now, but that’s not stopping undergraduates at one of the world’s most prestigious universities from trying to pass a boycott of Israel.

Tamara Berens

March 31 2020 12:01AM