Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
After New Republic Editor-in-chief Martin Peretz wrote a column suggesting that Muslims be stripped of their First Amendment rights, students from his alma mater, Brandeis, demanded that he apologize for betraying the schools values. Here’s a look behind the brouhaha.
The author was living a comfortable life in Hebrew University’s graduate school. So she decided to move to the capital of the West Bank.
In this review of “Jewish U,” a student from the University of Maryland criticizes the book for giving too specific advice to too broad a range of students and feels that the author is out of touch with today’s campus.
In this take on “Jewish U,” the reviewer–a student at the small Drew University in New Jersey–takes the author to task for focusing too much on Hillel and talking down to students.
Rabbi Scott Aaron of the Union for Reform Judaism recently released the latest version of his book, “Jewish U: A Contemporary Guide for the Jewish College Student.” We had three Jewish students from three campuses review it. Their recommendations: the book is too unimaginative, its scope is too broad and its advice is irrelevant for today’s Jewish college students.
What began as a research appointment in the Agricultural Ministry of Malawi turned into a conversation about life, family and why such different people can also be so similar
One student goes to a synagogue because the services are longer. Another has found her Judaism in communal living. A third engages religiously by participating in a non-religious neighborhood council. How students are finding Jewish experiences by leaving campus.
The author takes a remarkable journey from an Orthodox farming town to a Tel Aviv highway to a Palestinian village in the West Bank to a coffee shop in central Israel. And that was just one day.
The New Voices blog takes on the crisis off the Gazan shore.
Jews in the ROTC have to balance class, religion, and training for the likes of Iraq and Afghanistan. Here’s why they joined, and how they feel as Jews fighting in the US military.
Coming off of the Yeshiva University panel in December about being gay and Orthodox, a queer Orthodox group hosted a Shabbaton conference with the Orthodox Community at the University of Pennsylvania, discussing inclusion and challenges.
The selection of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren as Brandeis University’s commencement speaker has ignited opposition among some students.
Jewlicious, a three-day national Jewish festival and conference for young Jews in southern California, wanted to bring together Orthodox and Reform, hipsters and hippies, New Yorkers and Los Angelenos. But what happens when those Jews all find themselves in the same place?
Bwog, a news blog at Columbia University, is taking readers away from the campus paper, the Columbia Spectator. Does this spell doom for the college newspaper industry, or can the Spectator keep up?