Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
1. Give $18 million to Carl Levitt. It is a truth universally acknowledged that life after college is hard. With $18 million, I, Carl Levitt, could pay off my creditors and perhaps even live comfortably for the rest of my days. After four grueling years studying at this institution, $18 million would be the least…
You’ve seen the Maccabeats. Now, get ready for NCSY. [MyNCSY] Do you cheat on tests? Do your professors care? [HuffPo] Here’s a funny take on US priorities in the Middle East post-WikiLeaks. [Mere Rhetoric] A court acquitted the Israeli police who took out an American student’s eye during a protest. [Vos Iz Neias] YU has…
It’s not what you think. Donyel Meese talks about her struggle to become the only female mashgicha, or kosher kitchen supervisor, on campus. [Leftover Cholent] Israeli students aren’t the only ones protesting. For the Brits, tuition is too much. [HuffPo] And some students finally get the opportunity to go to school. The Jewish Community Foundation…
It may get the Guinness World Record for “smallest wedding proposal ever:” a computer chip plated in gold. [Forward Shmooze] The University of California cannot censor the anti-Semitic statements of Muslim groups, says the UC’s president. [JJ] The GA hosts a student journalism conference aimed at making said students Israel advocates. A telling quote: “I will…
Protest movements, to gain legitimacy, often relate their cause to another, more established one from the past. Thus we see that gay rights advocates cite the Civil Rights movement of the fifties and sixties, and advocates against the Iraq War find common cause with antiwar protesters from the Vietnam era. Not all protests are the…