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NYU Middle East Dialogue Battles Falling, Changing Interest
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…
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…
Contrary to popular belief, The University of Judaism (UJ) is full of contentious diversity when it comes to the ways and means of the Jewish state. At the most renowned Jewish school on the West Coast, students are constantly heard discussing and debating Israeli politics. And just like at most places, many students who dissent…