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Student: “There was no question. I had to go.”
On October 1st, Killah Priest and Jewish rapper Remedy, both members of the Wu Tang-affiliated Killa Beez, performed a concert hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University’s Hillel organization. The concert was aimed at healing the widening rifts between the various ethic and religious communities on Carnegie Mellon’s campus. The event was co-sponsored by a slate […]
A Rumination on Physical and Spiritual Separation
Preconceptions Confront Reality on the Iberian Peninsula
Burton’s “The Corpse Bride” Delights
Thoughts on the Homeland-Diaspora Question
The Jewish Museum Takes On Maurice Sendak
A Guide to Contemporary Semitic Style
This summer, while interning with Hillel, I was denied the right to make my own decision as to how I chose to express my political opinions. The organizers of New York City’s annual Salute To Israel Parade billed their high-profile event as an “expression of unity within the American Jewish community, transcending religious and political […]
This week, roughly 9,000 Israeli settlers are being moved from their communities as all settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank are being evacuated. Given the controversy over this disengagement initiative, made even touchier by the Aug. 4 Jewish attack on Israeli Arabs, student opinion, unsurprisingly, varies considerably. While some students […]