February 22, 2012 | New Voices

‘Being Muslim is the new probable cause:’ The student press reports on NYPD’s spying spree [Parsing]

By David A.M. Wilensky | February 22, 2012

“Being Muslim is apparently the new probable cause,” begins today’s editorial in the Washington Square News, NYU’s student newspaper. Two Muslim students at Yale began a Feb. 17 op-ed in the Yale Daily News with this: Since the end of the Jim Crow era, politicians have dressed racism in the rhetoric of food stamps and illegal aliens. But…

Drawing in Gemara class: fighting the impulse [Humor]

By awasserman | February 22, 2012

I have a confession to make: My name is Arielle Wasserman and I am a doodler. It’s shameful, I know. It started young; you can go and look through my grade one notebooks- all meticulously filed away by my uber-organized mother- and see the proof in the pudding. The once pristine sheets are rendered unrecognizable,…

NYPD surveillance; Anne Frank baptized (again); Shabbat buses; and more. [Required Reading]

By John Propper | February 22, 2012

NYPD tracked Muslim students, organizations [Columbia] Recent news that the New York Police Department willfully performed surveillance on Muslim student organizations in the name of anti-terrorism measures has been met with harsh criticism by many. In light of the fears this news may provoke, the Spectator, newspaper for Columbia College, unpacks the threat to free…

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‘Being Muslim is the new probable cause:’ The student press reports on NYPD’s spying spree [Parsing]

Drawing in Gemara class: fighting the impulse [Humor]

NYPD surveillance; Anne Frank baptized (again); Shabbat buses; and more. [Required Reading]