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A section of this article was featured in the Daily Northwestern on September 1st, 2013. She fell into the ditch thinking she was dead. All around her she breathed and touched dying human flesh. The bullet had apparently missed her. She desperately raised her arms to push through the masses of bodies that were…
When I heard that the rabbi of a Chabad house on a university campus was in trouble for providing alcohol to students, I assumed that I didn’t need to hear any further details to understand what the story was. That led me to write this post. I approached the subject with prejudice and without a…
Rugrats Tags: Rugrats Episodes,Rugrats,Rugrats Games Over a decade ago, the ADL added “Rugrats” to its tabulation of anti-Semitic propaganda. Despite the fact that it brought us the story of Hanukkah, viewable above, the ADL said the show’s depiction of Jewish characters perpetuated stereotypes. One NW blogger analyzes below: I recently read something surprising about “Rugrats,”…
This is a post by Coco Keevan, the student editor of the New Voices-Northwestern blog. Frankly, it’s been a rough weekend for the Jewish community here at Northwestern University and in Chicago. On Friday, word reached Northwestern’s Fiedler Hillel Center that several explosive packages were intercepted by government officials en route to Jewish institutional targets…
Here is a tidbit of some of what is going on our Northwestern-New Voices website: A review of the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema by Abraham Benson-Goldberg. Howdy y’all! ABG here, checking in with some good suggestions for the NU Jew community. Arts and culture! As you know, if you know me, I’m a film…
Haaretz reported today that in the best example of “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” one in three Spaniards is anti-Semitic. Jeff Goldberg insightfully points out that one in five Spaniards is actually of Jewish descent. [Jeff Goldberg] But while they may be hating on us in Madrid, there’s nothing but…