Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Before I start, let me just say that I intended to write this post. Try buying tzitzit on the internet. Just try it. I learned something quite fascinating at about 4:30 AM last night. You may not have known this, but there are lots of different types of tzitzit. Not just techelet and non-techelet, oh…
Last Friday at San Francisco State University, the atmosphere of Malcolm X Plaza was thick with music and cheers. The sun was out and so were students. Spontaneous circles of hora dancing erupted in the quad. Students and Israel fellows wearing brand new, bright blue shirts with a tri-lingual peace logo blazing across the chest…
“There’s a lot of dialogue and but it’s the silent minority. The loud majority doesn’t want dialogue,” said Gila Hashkes, Israel Fellow at UC Berkley Hillel. “We (at Berkeley) had a whole week during apartheid week, we had a big tent with a sign that said: “Let’s Talk.” And it was really interesting.” The tent…
Palestinian Girls Ignore Israeli Memorial Siren at Hebrew University last week for Holocaust Memorial Day (picture taken by the author) It is difficult to word this correctly, but for all the patience I have in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the rejection and denial of the Holocaust irritates more than anything. Palestinian leaders repeatedly reject major events…