To eliminate antisemitism on campuses, Kadish recommends:

Check your double standards when deliberating on how to respond to campus protests or student complaints about discrimination. Your passion for protecting students should not depend on their demographic.
Integrate Jewish students into DEI efforts: Ensure that efforts to eliminate racism and bias on campus explicitly include antisemitism. "It's absolutely clear that those efforts now need to include Jewish students. Rather than referring to DEI, I would say that I firmly support efforts to eliminate racism and make sure that everyone has equal opportunity."
Discourage the use of harmful terminology: Encourage students to debate sensitive subject matters but stamp out hate speech. "The future of Gaza, what we think about the Israel-Hamas war, what we think about Palestinian rights are all legitimate objects for debate," Kadish says. "Advocating violence against civilians is not a legitimate object for debate and should not be tolerated any more than we would tolerate violence against any other minority groups."

On Touro's mission—and rise in presidents with medical backgrounds

A cardiologist by training, Kadish describes the strong Jewish tradition of working in healthcare. Before joining Touro, he held a 19-year tenure at Northwestern University, serving as its senior associate chief of the cardiology division and other leadership posts. Since first joining Touro in 2009 as senior provost and chief operating officer, Kadish has helped expand the university's focus on different specialties, such as occupational therapy, pharmacology and most recently, psychology.

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President's corner: Dr. Kadish on better protecting Jewish students

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