The Reading List: Party like a Jew

By Ben Sales November 11, 2010

What should Jewish students who visit Brussels do? Apparently, they should celebrate Shabbat, tour the city and then get down.  [JPost] The kollel stipend protests continue… [JPost] While at Arizona State University, students protest IDF soldiers. [Mondoweiss] And at the University of South Carolina, the administration plans to revise the school’s discrimination policy, which could affect…

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The Reading List: Birthright Participant Dies on Trip

By Ben Sales November 2, 2010

Michael Kellogg, age 24, dies on the final day of his Taglit-Birthright Israel trip. [JPost] Meanwhile, as the Tea Party election commences, Israel starts its own version of the uber-populist, rightist group. [JPost] In more right-wing Israeli foibles, students plan to party on the anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination. [YNet] In Jerusalem, student protests continue…

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The Reading List: Let me in, pro-Israel community

By Ben Sales October 28, 2010

When you verbally abuse students and shut them out of your community, bad things can happen. [JW] Former New Voices head honcho Mik Moore channels FDR ahead of the election: Do not fear! [HuffPo] Yeshiva students are getting funding from the Israeli government? OK, give it to university students too. [Vos Iz Neias] And don’t…

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