Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
The hot Jewish news coming out of Vancouver detail a donation dispute (which you would know if you have been following the campus recaps). The controversy surrounds the Social Justice Centre (SJC), a resource group at the University of British Columbia. The organization authorized to donate part of its budget to projects promoting social justice….
Jewish students are now protected under a law banning racial or ethnic harassment on campus. But will this serve to lessen anti-Semitism, or will it gag speech critical of Israel? [Forward] In the Israeli secular university students’ protests over stipends for Haredi yeshiva students, the country’s chief rabbi sides with… the secular students. [JTA] [JPost] Not all…
I know we’ve all heard enough about a certain clash on a certain boat in the waters off a certain strip. Â So forgive me for once again using this space to talk about the Mavi Marmara melee. Â If it’s any consolation, the bulk of this post won’t focus on the early morning events of last…
The Twitterizing of the news has reached a crisis point in the Israeli-Palestinian forum. For a long time, the Jewish community in the US has viewed the conflict in black-and-white: The elders have decided that Jewish solidarity necessitates categorical defense of Israel, and they treat any deviation from the institutional line as a threat. There is no…