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Following Controversial Panel, Major New School Donor Threatens to Cut Off Funding
by Armin Rosen
November 22, 2017

A major New School donor is threatening to halt contributions in response to a planned November 28 event on anti-Semitism featuring controversial activist Linda Sarsour and Rebecca Vilkomerson, the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace. On Monday, Kenneth Bialkin, a top business attorney at Skadden and a former member of The New School for Social Research’s Board of Directors, sent a letter to New School president David E. Van Zandt, notifying the university that the panel would jeopardize his future involvement. READ MORE