Columbia’s Claire Shipman apologizes for leaked messages calling for removal of Jewish trustee

The acting Columbia University president said the comments ‘do not reflect how I feel’

By Haley Cohen

Claire Shipman, acting president of Columbia University, issued an apology to several members of the campus community for leaked text messages where she suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed from the university’s board over her pro-Israel advocacy.

“The things I said in a moment of frustration and stress were wrong. They do not reflect how I feel,” Shipman wrote on Wednesday in a private email obtained by Jewish Insider, noting that she was addressing “some trusted groups of friends and colleagues, with whom I’ve talked regularly over the last few months.” 

Ritchie Torres says he’s likely passing on New York gubernatorial run

The congressman once again declined to endorse Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral race but said he is ‘likely to win’

By Marc Rod

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