#YesAllJews / #NotAllJews

By Derek M. Kwait June 24, 2014

The #YesAllWomen meme has been one of the most transformative moments in the history of social media, and it’s been exciting to watch the long-overdue conversations it has inspired unfold across all media platforms. Recently, it got me thinking: Are there experiences common to all Jews, or at least all North American Jews? My thoughts…

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Bring Back Our Boys, Not Just Our Boy

By Amram Altzman June 23, 2014

In response to the abduction of three teenagers, Eyal Yifrah, Gil-ad Shaar, and Naftali Frankel, over a week ago in the West Bank, a petition to President Obama has been circulating around the Internet asking for the Executive Office to pressure the Palestinian Authority to release the one American citizen of the three kidnapped teenagers….

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Two Student Censorship False Alarms

By Derek M. Kwait June 19, 2014

Kate Jacobson, the former Israel chair at the University of Calgary, recently bowed to pressure from other students and resigned her post due to her highly controversial views on Israel, as reported by the Calgary Jewish News. The most important thing to note here is that she was not told to leave by Hillel— upon…

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#Generation

By Tikva Jacob June 12, 2014

I love hashtag communication: the modern use of these small hash symbol labels meant to convey a specific point. You can sum up an entire paragraph of concepts and ideas in a single pairing of symbol and word. Who needs prepositions, gerunds, and contractions? Who wants words? I’m an English literature major, and even I…

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My Thanksgivukkah Dilemmukkah: A Retrospective

By Dani Plung December 5, 2013

  Over the past several weeks, reminders of the occurrence of Thanksgivukah were impossible to avoid. Hanukkah was to coincide with Thanksgiving, for the first time in over 100 years and for what will allegedly be the last time in 70,000 years. Surely, this was an event this dramatic could not be overlooked! On the…

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“Real” Rape

By Meggie O'Dell October 14, 2013

When my roommate at USC, a film student with a pink streak in her hair, edited a documentary on rape, I remember the ambivalence I felt. This issue, I thought, was a closed book: a mandatory assembly on rape and consent, massive turnout for Take Back the Night demonstrations, “yes means yes and no means…

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GJV: Hasbarah Facebook Campaign is Just Slacktivism

By Gabriel T. Erbs November 26, 2012

If you are a Jewish student on Facebook, then your exposure to infographics probably stands at around 500% of normal due to the storm of social media hasbarah meant to buoy Israel’s Gaza operation, called Pillar of Defense. Most people don’t think twice about re-posting these images, confident in their “contribution” to Israel’s safety or happy…

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A Degree in Social Media [Unnecessary?]

By pkessler March 1, 2012

My friends and I all joke that we’re essentially unemployable because we attend a liberal arts school, but there might be some degrees that will be more wonkily received by the job market than a Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies major. As I scroll through my college’s career database, searching for internships for the summer,…

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A Nazi Runs for Congress; Pro-Israel Advocates to help Iranian group; M.B.A in Social Media and more [Required Reading]

By pkessler March 1, 2012

Congressional Hopeful Denies Holocaust [Forward] Arthur Jones, a Lyons, Ill. insurance salesman, is seeking the Republican congressional nomination to run against Democratic incumbent Dan Lipinski for Illinois’s 3rd Congressional District this fall. His credentials include being an active member of the National Socialist Party, participating in their march on Chicago’s Marquette Park in 1978. Historic Chicago Synagogue…

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The Reading List: Princeton Students Are Pro-Hummus Choice

By Ben Sales November 29, 2010

Sabra Hummus’s parent company supports the IDF, so some pro-BDS students at Princeton want alternative Middle Eastern dips at the dining hall. This makes me doubt these students’ sincerity, because if they really cared about the Middle East, they’d know the value of a good hummus. I mean, have they tasted Sabra’s competition? [The Daily Princetonian]…

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