Jewish seminaries doing it right (and by it, I mean ‘it’) [Sex!]

By David A.M. Wilensky February 1, 2012

Big news, folks. Three American Jewish seminaries have been pronounced “sexually healthy:” Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform seminary with branches in Cincinnati, New York City and Los Angeles Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the — you guessed it — Reconstructionist seminary in Philly Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative seminary in New York City The Religious…

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The Reading List: Selling Used Laptops to Pay for Jewish Day School

By Ben Sales February 14, 2011

That’s exactly what the Brisker Institute of Torah uMaddah in Buford, Montana is doing to offset tuition costs. [Frum Satire] Haredi control over Israel’s immigration grows. [JW] Some commentary on Malcolm Gladwell’s parsing of YU’s Us News ranking in the New Yorker. [Tzvee’s Talmudic Blog] A Jewish-Arab coexistence school in Israel is failing. [YNet] Regardless…

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The Reading List: The GA Destroyed My Understanding of Zionism

By Ben Sales November 16, 2010

So says a journalism student who went to the GA’s Do The Write Thing conference. [Jewlicious] What’s it like going to college after attending Jewish high school? [Schmooze] The Hebrew U. Hillel house puts on a TEDx conference—a regional version of the renowned TED conference. [Jewlicious] Does college today cost too much? Maybe not, these guys…

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A Jewish Student Magazine Summit

By joshnathankazis May 15, 2009

The third and final audio recording from the 38th Annual National Jewish Student Journalism Conference is posted below. In this segment, editors of five Jewish campus publications talk about their trade. Speakers included representatives from The Shpiel, Schmooze Magazine, the Commentator, Avanim, and Hakesher. Download their conversation by clicking on the following link: Jewish Student…

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