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Evelyn Handler, who served as the fifth president of Brandeis University, was killed Dec. 23 when she was struck by a car while crossing the street in Bedford, N.H. Handler served as president from 1983 to 1991 as the first and only women to ever hold the position. She was 78 years old. As a…
We’ve all heard the joke: A synagogue is trying to get rid of a field mouse that won’t leave the building. So they give it a bar mitzvah.
Aiming to put an end to that punchline, the Union for Reform Judaism launched a new initiative called the Campaign for Youth Engagement at the Reform movement’s biennial convention, held near Washington, D.C. on Dec. 14-18.
“I think it’s going to be fantastic,” Ryan Leszner, a senior at York University, told New Voices. “It doesn’t immediately speak for college campus needs … but you have to start somewhere.”