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A calendar featuring the hunkiest Jewish guys on your campus! Cornell’s Hillel has published a calendar of the “Nice Jewish Greek Men of Cornell” for 2011. Maybe this will be the catalyst that changes Hillels’ reputation nationwide from serving as a breeding ground for nerdy Jewish boys to becoming at least a GPS for where […]
What happens when you put a student from Yale, a snowboard instructor from Colorado and a journalist together in the same room? It sounds like the beginning to a joke. Instead, it’s the beginning to a night to remember. In December, I wrote about a Jew Crew reunion I was putting together with my friends […]
In Judaism, when we pray, we always turn our bodies so that we face Jerusalem. The reason for this is that within the walls of her old city resides The Kotel. The Kotel, more commonly known as the Western or Wailing Wall, is the last remaining wall of the destroyed temple in Jerusalem. Its oldest […]
God bless io9, my favorite sci-fi blog. In addition to sci-fi, the blog hosts regular features — like Mad Science — that focus on real life things… such as 16th century nose jobs. The post notes that it was multi-week process that involved grafting your whole arm onto your face and so forth. Apparently, it […]
Israeli cinema has grown in stature on the international stage in recent years. Israeli-made films received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Over winter break, I watched two of these films, which both dealt with a challenging subject: war. If you are looking for an action-packed […]
I wrote last week about how much I didn’t like the new “masterpiece” of Jewish fiction, “Witz.” As it turns out, the book is so ridiculously long that it can stop bullets (via The Scroll):
Students all over Northwestern University are tuning into “Continental Drift,” the school’s international music radio show, and listening to a range of Israeli groups–whether subversive, folksy or anything in between. How does Israeli music fit into the international scene? And what happens when the lyrics get political?
The Masorti (Conservative) movement in Israel stands up for its values and goes on the offensive against government subsidies for yeshiva students. [Jewschool] Stream the Western Wall live on your iPhone! [WaPo] Cholent is so tasty. [Forward Jew and the Carrot] The pros and cons of finishing college a semester early. [Her Campus] The Chinese […]
In some ways it feels like yesterday that I walked into this apartment for the first time, toured Pardes for the first time, and met the people who turned out to make up what came to be a fantastic and interesting community of friends. In reality, however, nearly four months have passed. A few weeks […]
Several dozen Jewish students are going to the Rose Bowl to cheer on their school: Texas Christian University. [JTA] American students studying abroad in Israel live in a bubble. [JW] Apparently, my Jewish high school has raised $20 million in one month to build a new building. [Chicago Tribune] Protests grow against the Haredim in […]