Jewish Greek Organizations Take the Offensive Against Campus Rape Crisis

By Nicole Zelniker November 18, 2014

Across the country, rape culture permeates life on college campuses, affecting all areas of campus life.  According to the BBC, those who join fraternities are three times more likely to commit an assault. “Another fraternity on campus got kicked off for sexual harassment,” said University of Arizona sophomore and Sigma Alpha Mu brother Brent Davis….

Read More...

This … Is … Jewish Identity!

By Carly Silver January 29, 2011

What if Helen of Troy was Jewish? Is it possible that Greek myth’s most legendary beauty was an MOT? That proposition is a bit far-fetched, but ancient sources record that the Spartans and Jews may have been related. Is that tale even true, though, or is it a product of later political impositions? According to…

Read More...

The Hanukkah History

By Carly Silver November 30, 2010

It’s time to investigate Hanukkah. For those of us who have a cursory knowledge of the holiday, Hanukkah means the triumph of Jews over the Greeks, Judaism over foreign religions, and the power of G-d against pagan outsiders. However, when one looks at the Maccabees themselves, they are not as black-and-white as some may think….

Read More...