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News Their beloved Chabad house destroyed, University of Delaware students vow to rebuild, bigger
Jewish students at the University of Delaware whose Chabad house went up in flames have made their fundraising and rebuilding goals more ambitious after an initial success. In less than a week, their GoFundMe raised more than $500,000 to rebuild what they called the “little blue house,” which was destroyed in a possible act of…
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News Jewish students: Hillel, Chabad key to comfort on unwelcoming campuses
Only about a quarter of Jewish students surveyed found their campuses to be welcoming of religious diversity, according to The Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey, a small study published last week by a nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation on campus. On the other hand, more than 80% of Jewish students said they felt…
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News Colleges express outrage about anti-Semitism— but fail to report it as a crime
Binghamton University in upstate New York is known as one of the top colleges for Jewish life in the United States. A quarter of the student population identifies as Jewish. Kosher food is on the meal plan. There are five historically-Jewish Greek chapters and a Jewish a capella group, Kaskeset. When a swastika was drawn…
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Community Graduations, camp and more is canceled. ‘What can we say that does not risk pablum or platitudes?’
“What happens to a dream deferred?” With this question, Langston Hughes began his poem “Harlem,” inquiring what happens to a person who discovers their long-sought dream to be unobtainable. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Does it linger and fester? Or does it, as Hughes suggests in his allusion to the…
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Fast Forward White Nationalist College Recruitment Efforts Up For Third Straight Year: ADL
White nationalist and white supremacist groups have increased their recruiting efforts on college campuses for the third straight year, the Anti-Defamation League reported Thursday. The ADL documented 313 incidents of white supremacist propaganda on campuses during the 2018-19 school year, up seven percent from 2017-18 — which itself saw a 77% rise over the year…
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Opinion Cornell’s BDS Fight Backfired. It Made Our Pro-Israel Community Stronger.
When Cornell’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine announced its boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against Israel at Cornell University where I am a rising senior, an atmosphere of fear developed among the Jewish community. A similar BDS push failed at Cornell in 2014, and it was inevitable that it would come back. Still,…
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Culture I Didn’t Want To Fall For Israel — Confessions Of A Millennial Jew
I remember it like this: It was the turn of the century. There was an uprising. I had just learned how to read. It was an odd time to take children to Israel. The country had become a bloody backdrop against which cafes and buses exploded, flinging scraps of human flesh into the air. We…
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Fast Forward ‘Evil Jewish Plot’ Anti-Semitic Posters Found At University Of North Carolina
Anti-Semitic posters were found on bookshelves and tables at a library at the University of North Carolina on Wednesday. It’s the second racist incident to occur at the school in the past two weeks. The posters, which warned of an “evil Jewish plot,” were condemned by the university administration. “I am extremely disappointed and appalled…
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