Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Students for Justice in Palestine is currently holding its first national conference at Columbia University from October 14 to 16. The keynote address — the only part of the conference open to the press — featured academic luminaries Mahmood Mamdani, an professor of government at Columbia, and Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh, an anthropologist who has taught…
Does Justin Timberlake look Jewish to you? The Tennessee-born hitmaker might not be a member of the Tribe, but he’s set to play one in Spinning Gold, an upcoming biopic about Neil Bogart. The late founder of Casablanca Records, Bogart was a Jew from Brooklyn who introduced the world to musical acts like KISS. The…
Turns out there was no need for such a fuss. On September 19th, two days before Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was scheduled to have dinner with 15 members of the Columbia International Relations Council and Association (CIRCA), the Iranian mission to the United Nations revoked the invitation due to the “media firestorm” surrounding the event, according to the…
After a controversial speech at Columbia University in 2007, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have linked up with the New York school again to discuss his policies. And every news outlet from the Upper West Side to Israel has put their two cents in. According to a Sept. 10 article in the Columbia Daily Spectator,…
For Apple, that was indeed the question. After protests from Jewish activists, the software giant removed from their App Store a French program called “Juif ou pas Juif,” or “Jew or not Jew.” For $1.08, users could find out if their favorite stars qualified as members of the Tribe. The app’s creator, Johann Lévy, is…
In this installment, Carly Silver returns to Hinduism, visiting a Hindu temple under construction in Flushing.
As Jews, we may see our closest genetic relatives in other Semites, often the citizens of the Arab nations surrounding Israel, or in our Jewish cousins scattered across the world. By tracing genetic ancestry of sub-Saharan African peoples, Harvard researchers have determined that Jews are actually more closely linked to the rest of the world…
When ABC canceled its long-running soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live, not only did it remove its historic daytime programming, but it also took away numerous characters to whom thousands of people related. Moreover, daytime brought a new kind of diversity to television, still represented to some extent on modern soaps,…
Note to those loving a good, salty nosh: it is okay to eat pickles. According to the Jewish Chronicle online, the “macrobiotic diet,” which combines a list of recommended foods and a “zen” lifestyle, can include pickles and other Jewish foods. Apparently, Jews have a long history of eating healthily. Poor Jews in Europe would…
The pope’s latest statement about Jews follows his announcement that, two thousand years after the fact, we were not, in fact, to blame for killing Jesus. While this statement might reverse future anti-Semitism, it might be a bit too little, too late. Unfortunately, hatred towards the Jews for something we didn’t do is likely too…
Concerns have grown from the Egyptian revolutions about the country’s priceless antiquities. Despite Zahi Hawass’s assurances that many items have remained safe, it appears much has been damaged. Egypt also has invaluable Jewish sites, like the synagogue at Alexandria, but these are not mentioned in the media as much. During all the chaos, what has…
They host shabbat dinners, say blessings over the wine and bread and talk about the Torah portion. Then they praise Jesus. Carly Silver takes an inside look at the world of Jews for Jesus at Brooklyn College.
Rapper Drake is a melting pot of cultures. He is African-American, Canadian, and Jewish, a wonderful cultural package all rolled into one. When asked by a reporter if he was a better Jew than Harvey Levin, who runs gossip website TMZ, Drake replied, “I don’t know. I’m one of the best Jews ever to do…
How do you measure a Jewish population? By faith? By numbers? By synagogue? The New Haven Independent, a paper discussing the affairs of New Haven, CT, says that, in that area, numbers of Jews are statistically rising. However, the study was “supplemented by contacts with 536 households with Jewish-sounding names.” Is this the right way…
What if Helen of Troy was Jewish? Is it possible that Greek myth’s most legendary beauty was an MOT? That proposition is a bit far-fetched, but ancient sources record that the Spartans and Jews may have been related. Is that tale even true, though, or is it a product of later political impositions? According to…