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חבר אתה חסר Bailey Spagat is participating in Career Israel, one of Masa Israel’s 180 programs.
Last Thursday, I participated in Israel’s first ever Susan G. Komen “Race for the Cure.” I didn’t think much of it when I signed up in school; my mom was the one who got excited when she heard, as she lost her mother to breast cancer in 1984. But I guess in an absentminded way, […]
While I don’t know much about the Talmud, I do know that the timeless wisdom of Talmud scholars has consistently been a source of strength for the Jewish people. Furthermore, Judaism’s tradition of rabbinic debate helped create a culture that places a high priority on education and intelligent argument. I was reminded of this today […]
This post comes a bit late tonight, because I’ve been consumed with an article for the fall issue of New Voices on the state of Reform Judaism on college campuses. The article could be a novella, and I had to condense it into an approximately 1,000-word article. Talk about challenging. But what was neat about […]
“Young voters say they feel abandoned” is the title of Sunday’s New York Times article about the disillusionment that followed the Obama campaign. We couldn’t get enough of Obama back in 2008. He was new. He was grassroots. He was hip and cool, and he won 66 percent of the 18- to 29-year-old-vote because he […]
This is a post by Coco Keevan, the student editor of the New Voices-Northwestern blog. Frankly, it’s been a rough weekend for the Jewish community here at Northwestern University and in Chicago. On Friday, word reached Northwestern’s Fiedler Hillel Center that several explosive packages were intercepted by government officials en route to Jewish institutional targets […]
Schmooze Magazine, Northwestern’s Jewish student magazine, debates the merits of the circumcised penis. [Schmooze] Newsflash: Bernie Madoff did not kill Birthright. [Schmooze] Across the pond, El Al orders a professor to leave her luggage — and her clothes — behind. [Vos Iz Neias] And in the Middle East, an Israeli student gets paid NIS 12,000 […]
Everyone from Tracy Morgan to Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog loves the Jewish international aid group. [AJWSTV] Meanwhile, two Pakistani-American Muslim students are going all over their campuses to promote dialogue and understanding between Muslims and Jews. [Forward] The Israeli university students’ protest of the yeshiva stipends bill continues… [JTA] A Jewish college basketball coach […]
On the first day of the semester, a certain professor of mine unreservedly characterized the great 12th-century Rabbi Moses Maimonides as “the most influential figure in Jewish rabbinic history.” While there certainly might be other contenders for that distinction, the fact that my professor was willing to make that claim is telling. Maimonides’s groundbreaking theological […]
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 […]