An Israeli filmmaker envisions what Israel’s “last day” would look like, although takes many creative liberties while doing so. However unsettling the video may be, Uriel Heilman notes, it provides a thought provoking, yet unrealistic, depiction of what an attack on Israel and the response would look like. [JTA]
Members of the Jewish clergy have found new ways to cope with their student debt upon graduating by applying for federal loan forgiveness for employees of non-profit organizations. However, the Department of Education recently released new guidelines for who qualifies for this relief – and religious organizations are not on it, sparking an interfaith movement to change the law. [Huffington Post]
“In the small world of seminary training and professional religious jobs, the news that the public service loan forgiveness provision is not an option for religious workers has thrown a wrench in the plans of young pastors, rabbis, imams and other members a profession already known for low pay, long hours and high stress.”
George Clooney to star in new film about art experts chasing down works stolen by the Nazi regime. [JTA]
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, discusses why she filed a Title VI complaint against the university, alleging anti-Semitism against Jewish students. [Forward]
“Although he [University President Mark Yudof] implies that the primary target of my complaint is ‘abhorrent speech’ on campus, this is simply not so. Rather, my complaint focuses on university faculty and administrators who have regularly and egregiously abused their positions as employees of a public university and violated the tenets of their profession to promote their own virulently anti-Israel political agenda, which in turn has had deleterious effects on many Jewish students.”
The Histadrut labor federation, Israel’s main labor union, and the Israeli government fail to reach an agreement on contract workers, resulting in the first labor strike the country has seen in five years. [NYT]
