Reforming the Reformed

By ckessler November 1, 2010

This post comes a bit late tonight, because I’ve been consumed with an article for the fall issue of New Voices on the state of Reform Judaism on college campuses. The article could be a novella, and I had to condense it into an approximately 1,000-word article. Talk about challenging. But what was neat about…

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The Naïveté of ‘Generation O’

By agood November 1, 2010

“Young voters say they feel abandoned” is the title of Sunday’s New York Times article about the disillusionment that followed the Obama campaign.  We couldn’t get enough of Obama back in 2008.  He was new.  He was grassroots.  He was hip and cool, and  he won 66 percent of the 18- to 29-year-old-vote because he…

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Judaism in Chicago: Vandalism and Thwarted Explosives

By admin November 1, 2010

This is a post by Coco Keevan, the student editor of the New Voices-Northwestern blog. Frankly, it’s been a rough weekend for the Jewish community here at Northwestern University and in Chicago. On Friday, word reached Northwestern’s Fiedler Hillel Center that several explosive packages were intercepted by government officials en route to Jewish institutional targets…

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The Reading List: Making the Cut

By Ben Sales November 1, 2010

Schmooze Magazine, Northwestern’s Jewish student magazine, debates the merits of the circumcised penis. [Schmooze] Newsflash: Bernie Madoff did not kill Birthright. [Schmooze] Across the pond, El Al orders a professor to leave her luggage — and her clothes — behind. [Vos Iz Neias] And in the Middle East, an Israeli student gets paid NIS 12,000…

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