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Fast Forward 500 California Alumni Blast Campus Anti-Semitism
More than 500 alumni of the University of California called on the system’s president and Board of Regents to address the “rising tide of anti-Jewish bigotry at the UC.” The alumni wrote in the open letter published Wednesday in the Daily Bruin, the student newspaper of the University of California, Los Angeles, that they are…
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Fast Forward California Push Against Anti-Semitism Spreads
Students at two University of California campuses have passed resolutions condemning anti-Semitism after incidents on two UC campuses, including the painting of swastikas on the doors of a Jewish fraternity at UC Davis. The UCLA Undergraduate Students Association unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday amid controversy over the tough grilling of a Jewish candidate for…
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Fast Forward 54% of American College Students Experience Anti-Semitism
More than half of current American Jewish college students have personally witnessed or experienced an anti-Semitic incident, according to a new study. Some 54 percent of Jewish college students participating in the survey released Monday by the Louis D. Brandeis Center and Trinity College said they had experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism within the past academic…
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Fast Forward U. California Davis BDS Bill Tossed by Student Court
An Israel divestment resolution passed at the University of California Davis last month by the student senate was overturned on Feb. 19 by the university’s Court of Associated Students. The court ruled 5-0 with one abstention in favor of Jonathan Mitchell, who had filed a case with the court contending that the Associated Students U.C….
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Fast Forward Stanford Senate Falls 1 Vote Short on Divestment
The Stanford University student senate defeated an Israel divestment resolution. On Tuesday night, the Associated Students of Stanford University had nine votes for the measure and five against, with one abstention. But to pass, the measure required 66 percent of the senators to approve and finished with 64 percent. The resolution called on the Palo…
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The Schmooze JDate Hooks You Up With Your Old Camp Flame
Kurt Hoffman (JTA) — Beth and Jeff Kopin are one of an estimated 700 married couples to have met at one of the Conservative movement’s Ramah camps. The Kopins, who fell in love at Ramah Wisconsin in the 1970s, went on to raise a flock of “Ramahniks.” “There’s this family feeling if you meet another…
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News Jewish Campus Groups Grapple With Rape Controversy
(JTA) — Jewish campus groups were ready for the painful national dialogue that took place in the wake of murky rape allegations at the University of Virginia. That’s because organizations like Hillel and historically Jewish Greek houses such as Alpha Epsilon Pi, Zeta Beta Tau and Sigma Delta Tau had been having the conversations for…
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Fast Forward Campus Anti-Israel Protests Surge by 114%
More than 75 anti-Israel events have been reported on U.S. college and university campuses this fall, more than twice as many as last year, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. The anti-Israel events have more than doubled in the wake of Israel’s 50-day operation in Gaza over the summer, according to an ADL…
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