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Yet again, someone trying in good faith to take their seat at the Jewish communal table has had their chair pulled out from under them.
At a Nov. 16 meeting of the Jewish Student Union at the University of California, Berkeley, the students of the union’s general board voted to reject the Berkeley chapter of J Street U’s application for membership. The union, considered the official voice of the Jewish community at Berkeley, is an umbrella organization funded partially by Berkeley Hillel and partially by the student government. Though Jewish groups can seek funding and recognition directly from Hillel, as J Street U does, many also choose to join the union, which gives additional funding to its 15 member organizations.
As we first reported earlier today, the editors-in-chief of the YU Beacon, the most daring of Yeshiva University’s three (!) student newspapers met at 5 p.m. with a group of YU administrators. The administrators were threatening to cut off the Beacon’s funding in response to an article about a […]
Updated at 3:42 p.m. — New Voices has now re-published the censored article in its entirety. At 5:00 p.m. today, Simi Lampert and Toviah Moldwin, co-founders and co-editors-in-chief of the YU Beacon will sit down with four Yeshiva University administrators who they fear will threaten to pull the Beacon’s funding. The meeting was called in response to an […]
This anonymously written article was originally published in the “Written Word” section of the YU Beacon, Yeshiva University’s co-ed student newspaper. Under pressure from administrators at YU, the editors of the beacon pulled the article down last night and replaced it with a note explaining their actions. They plan to put the article back, but until they do, New Voices will host a copy of the article, which you can read below.
Last week, we published an article about acclaimed (by the sort of people who acclaim such things) Holocaust denier Arthur R. Butz, a professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University. Yesterday, I put together a blog post featuring some of the emails I received in response to that article, all of them from members of […]
Here’s Noam Chomsky on the enormously changed landscape on US campuses over the past twenty years surrounding the US/Israel-Palestine conflict. Among the issues discussed is the growing influence of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) groups and the petty isolation of pro-Israel groups on campuses. The following is a raw excerpt from dialogues with prominent […]
I was surprised by the volume of emails I received in response to last week’s article by Gabi P. Remz about Arthur R. Butz. Butz is a professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University in Chicago. Tenured decades ago, he’s now more well known for his work as a Holocaust denier than his academic areas of expertise, which, […]
With one day left of school now, I feel I must reflect. What they say about this school is true, you know — people really do sleep in the library, and it is hard to make friends. Really, two of my only friends here include the rabbi and the Catholic priest. It’s kind of interesting. They […]
One of the foremost experts on the Second Temple Period, Shaye J. D. Cohen, the Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard University, writes, “In the eyes of the ancients, the essence of religion was neither faith nor dogma, but action” (51). Though counterintuitive, this statement seems absolutely correct. If one searches the […]
Are there resource guides for modern Jews, or on the subject of modern Judaism for others? My bookshelf is loaded with theology. Make that bookshelves—three of them, crammed with as much Waskow, Armstrong, Schachter-Shalomi, Kaplan and Michaelson as I can fit into one three-room apartment. When non-Jewish friends ask me for a book about Judaism, I […]