Going Unplugged [24 Hour Challenge]

By Carly Silver March 29, 2012

Hi. My name is Carly and I’m a techno-holic. Like many of my friends, I constantly surf the web, check my e-mail, and watch TV. Therefore, when I was presented with the challenge to “unplug”  from sundown on March 23 to sundown on March 24, I was a bit nervous. I’ve never followed the Sabbath…

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Drawing the Activist Line [Activism]

By pkessler March 29, 2012

Justice Antonin Scalia came to speak at Wesleyan a few weeks ago. Cool, right? Isn’t it great that the University chose to bring a Supreme Court Justice and highly educated Constitutional scholar to campus in order to engage in discussion with the students? Well, not quite. I respect the University’s choice to bring to campus…

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I was accosted by a Jewish Second-wave feminist… Awesome! [J Street 2012]

By Shani Chabansky March 29, 2012

Just after the “Bringing Women to the Fore and Advancing Peace” session, an elderly woman approached me to respond to a question I had asked about intersectionality, a term used in modern feminist theory to describe how all forms of oppression are connected. The idea is that you can’t eradicate racism without getting rid of…

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Hebrew school dropouts have good reasons

By Eliana Glogauer March 29, 2012

Daniel P. Schley argues that it’s time we found a new way to educate Jewish teens in non-Jewish high schools.

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Brandeis SJP disrupts town hall meeting; Trayvon Martin and Jewish law; Matzah trays go modern art, and more [Required Reading]

By pkessler March 29, 2012

Brandeis Students protest Israeli Parliament Members [Brandeis SJP] On Monday, a Brandeis student group calling themselves Students for Justice in Palestine disrupted a town hall meeting in Newton, Mass where 5 members of the Israeli Parliament intended to speak. This activism comes on the heels of a similar effort by SJP last year. After the…

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