Fifth Column at the Town Hall
Christian-Muslim Kulturkampf comes to the neighborhood
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
The New Voices blog takes on the crisis off the Gazan shore.
Jews in the ROTC have to balance class, religion, and training for the likes of Iraq and Afghanistan. Here’s why they joined, and how they feel as Jews fighting in the US military.
Coming off of the Yeshiva University panel in December about being gay and Orthodox, a queer Orthodox group hosted a Shabbaton conference with the Orthodox Community at the University of Pennsylvania, discussing inclusion and challenges.
The selection of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren as Brandeis University’s commencement speaker has ignited opposition among some students.
Jewlicious, a three-day national Jewish festival and conference for young Jews in southern California, wanted to bring together Orthodox and Reform, hipsters and hippies, New Yorkers and Los Angelenos. But what happens when those Jews all find themselves in the same place?
Bwog, a news blog at Columbia University, is taking readers away from the campus paper, the Columbia Spectator. Does this spell doom for the college newspaper industry, or can the Spectator keep up?
She has worked as a farmer, a waitress, a creative writing teacher, an in-hospital sex-educator and a lamp-maker–and now she’s writing an internet advice column. Merissa Nathan Gerson, the self-proclaimed “28-year Old Yenta,” runs AskYourYenta.com, where she offers assistance on anything from sex to eating habits.
New Voices reporter Simeon Botwinick spoke with Gerson to find out why she started AskYourYenta and how she hopes to help.
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A conversation with “Faces of Israel” Director Amy Beth Oppenheimer
Orthodox Jewish law prohibits members of the opposite sex from touching each other in any way. On college campuses filled with romance and sex, what’s an observant Jew to do? Inside the conflicted world of Orthodox Jewish college dating.
…And other things I learned at a Columbia University Hillel party.
Balancing ritual, culture, observance and secularism as a college Jew.
Hookah-smoking has been gaining popularity with Jewish students at campuses across the country as a recreational activity. But is it a new road to coexistence or just another hazard to your health?