Outside Hillel, Northeastern Jewish Students Struggle After Rabbi Leaves

By Hannah Bernstein December 18, 2018

This is part 3 in a series about politics, identity, and Jewish community on college campuses. Click here to view part 1, and here for part 2. Ben Novak came to Northeastern University in 2016 from a Catholic high school in Kingston, Massachusetts. His father was raised Jewish, and his mother converted to Judaism before…

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Disorganization, lack of information characterize run up to annual event [Israeli Apartheid Week]

By Dafna Fine February 24, 2012

Israeli Apartheid Week begins on Sunday and runs through Saturday, March 3. New Voices writers will be covering it all week on several campuses. If you know of  IAW events — or its counterpart, Israel Peace Week — on your campus, let us know by emailing Dafna Fine at dafna@newvoices.org. The trailer below is from…

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The Reading List: The Jewish Standard tries again

By Ben Sales October 18, 2010

After the exposing of the Orthodox rabbi who asked the New Jersey Jewish Standard not to print any more same-sex wedding announcements, the paper is trying again to take the pulse of community religious leaders on the issue. [North Jersey] Meanwhile, biased fearmongering reigns at Boston University. [Jewish Exponent] Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef says that goyim…

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