The Day After Yom Kippur, You’ll Find Me Marching

By Aliza Lifshitz September 29, 2017

As I reflect on this past year, moments of crisis stand out in my mind. I think about the ways in which God has tested me and my community. I think about experiencing a surreal and seemingly endless stream of challenges, pushing me to stand for my Jewish values that suddenly felt under attack. Even…

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What Does it Mean to Be a Zionist on a College Campus?

By Amram Altzman May 5, 2014

I have alluded before to (what I see as) the somewhat sorry state of Israel education and advocacy today, especially on college campuses. I spoke about the fact that simply greeting people who claim that Israel is an apartheid state with some falafel and a blue-and-white cupcake is not an effective tool for advocacy in…

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The Black and White Necessity for Grey Zone Judaism

By Deborah Pollack April 1, 2014

This academic year I am a part of the Peoplehood Project: a UJA sponsored program that brings together students from Columbia/Barnard Hillel, Oranim College in northern Israel, and ZWST, a German Jewish organization. Each cohort spends time learning in their respective home countries, then, over winter break, all three groups spend time traveling and learning…

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‘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…

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Barnard College and the Case on Racism

By Carly Silver February 2, 2012

Barnard College the subject of controversy after an alleged slight to a professor with negative views on Israel | photo by Flickr user walkinggeek (CC BY 2.0) Last fall, a Barnard College professor was accused of discrimination when she allegedly steered  an Orthodox Jewish student away from taking a class taught by controversial professor Joseph…

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The Reading List: Uncle Leo Z”L

By Ben Sales February 17, 2011

Uncle Leo, beloved uncle of Jerry Seinfeld on the classic sitcom, has passed away at 88. [JPost] The former editor of the Jerusalem Report will head Hillel’s new Israel Engagement Center. [JPost] A story we kind of missed: It’s not just the Maccabeats: Jewish a capella rises at college. [Forward] Students at a Haredi yeshiva…

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