Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
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…
Back home in Dayton, Ohio, the Jewish community is tiny. The only way to engage in that community is to go to services and see the same people over and over again. As for the services themselves, you have three choices–reform, conservative, or Chabad. Here in Chicago, though, it’s quite different. My college campus has…