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18 Stanford Apologizes for Discriminating Against Jewish Applicants
in the 1950s
An official investigation by Stanford University released on Oct. 12 confirmed long-
standing suspicions that university administrators acted to limit Jewish enrollment
in the 1950s while publicly denying that they were doing so, JTA.org reported.
In tandem with the report, Stanford’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, apolo-
gized to the Jewish community.
“This ugly component of Stanford’s history, confirmed by this new report, is
saddening and deeply troubling,” Tessier-Lavigne wrote. “As a university, we must
acknowledge it and confront it as a part of our history, as repellent as it is, and
seek to do better.”
Tessier-Lavigne also wrote that Stanford will work to ensure that it is welcom-
ing to Jewish students today by increasing anti-bias training, creating a dedicated
advisory committee, paying more attention to Jewish holiday cycles in university
scheduling and other measures. The university’s first day of classes this fall took
place on Rosh Hashanah.
Stanford convened the task force that produced the report after a historian pub-
lished his discovery of documents left behind by Stanford’s admissions director
from 1950 to 1970, Rixford Snyder, suggesting that Snyder was biased against Jews
and interested in reducing their enrollment at the university.
Early American Jewish Novelist Gets Bridge Named for Her
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EXHIBITORS SPEAKERS &
INFORMATION Ben Bernanke, the Jewish former chairman of the Federal Reserve, shared the
Nobel Prize for Economics with two other scholars for their work in examining
how banks function in economic crises.
Bernanke was recognized for an influential 1983 paper, written when he was a
professor at Stanford University, that examined the Depression era to show how
runs on banks during economic uncertainty tend to exacerbate and broaden a
crisis. His theories helped inform his handling of the 2008 economic crisis and
the bailout of major financial institutions at the time.
Sharing the prize for their separate research into bank collapse were two
American scholars, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig.
Bernanke, 68, was chairman of the Fed from 2006 to 2014 and was one of at least
five Jewish chairmen of the body, which is the United States’ central banking system.
His predecessor, Alan Greenspan, was Jewish, as was his successor, Janet Yellen.
OCTOBER 20, 2022 | JEWISHEXPONENT.COM
A Massachusetts town at the center of a high school antisemitism scandal last
year has just renamed a bridge in honor of a pioneering but little-known Jewish
woman writer who lived there during the 19th century, JTA reported.
Cora Wilburn, whose autobiographical novel “Cosella Wayne” is likely the first
novel published in English by a Jewish woman in America, settled in Duxbury,
south of Boston, as an adult and lived there until her death at age 82 in 1906.
Now, 116 years later, the town of Duxbury has dedicated the Cora Wilburn
Bridge in her honor, renaming “Bridge D-14-009(49Q).”
Duxbury is where a high school football team was revealed last year to have
used the terms “Auschwitz” and “rabbi” as football calls. The coach was fired and
the town commissioned an investigation that found evidence of longstanding
antisemitism in the team culture.
Trader Joe’s Drops ‘Israeli’ Name on its Pearl Couscous
Couscous lovers who frequent the grocery store Trader Joe’s may have noticed
a change in the grain aisle: The chain’s brightly colored purple boxes of “Israeli
Couscous” are now simply known as “Pearl Couscous,” JTA.org reported.
The Nosher, a sister website to the JTA, first reported the label change after
word of it spread on the popular Facebook group Kosher Trader Joe’s.
The move raised questions in the group about whether Trader Joe’s was trying to
distance itself from Israel, a move that some companies have made for political reasons.
But a spokesperson for the company said it “recently switched to a new supplier
for this product and it is now sourced domestically rather than from Israel.” The
product itself hasn’t changed, according to The Nosher’s report. JE
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb