The Reading List: Selling Used Laptops to Pay for Jewish Day School

By Ben Sales February 14, 2011

That’s exactly what the Brisker Institute of Torah uMaddah in Buford, Montana is doing to offset tuition costs. [Frum Satire] Haredi control over Israel’s immigration grows. [JW] Some commentary on Malcolm Gladwell’s parsing of YU’s Us News ranking in the New Yorker. [Tzvee’s Talmudic Blog] A Jewish-Arab coexistence school in Israel is failing. [YNet] Regardless…

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All the Young JAPs

By Ben Sales February 14, 2011

Move over, Maccabeats. Coming from AEPi and ZBT with their Blackberries, Gucci bags, designer clothes and leggings, the Jews of Michigan rock their cultural materialism in “Pursuit of Jappiness,” a paean to all of those Jewish American Princes(ses) on campus. Will most of the organized Jewish world look at this as another sign that young Jews…

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Can We Achieve Pluralism at Hillel?

By ahowie February 14, 2011

As the Religious Chair of a small-ish sized Hillel at Miami University of Ohio, I hear the word “pluralism” frequently.  And I too am guilty of branding our Hillel as pluralistic.  “We have a pluralistic minyan,” I tell prospective students.  But despite my dependency on the term, I question whether a pluralistic minyan is possible,…

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