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Community Tel Aviv Councilman: We Must Do More To Empower Jewish Students On College Campuses
For the past several years, I’ve had the honor of being hosted by Hillels on college campuses throughout the United States, invited to speak with Jewish and non-Jewish students about the state of Israel in the eyes of a political and social activist fighting for LGBTQ rights, as well as an environmental expert on the…
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Community The No State Solution
More times than I can count, Brown University students, Jewish and non-Jewish, have decried Israel in what they call “a critique of nationalism” or the state system. On the one hand, I agree with their theoretical point: nationalism and the state system are extremely problematic and have resulted in enormous grief, bloodshed, and displacement across…
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Community What Campus Life Is Like For Jewish Republicans
A version of this article originally appeared in New Voices. The media has shown us months of outraged reactions over Donald Trump’s election, particularly among students. Campus protests frequently appear on our TV screens and in our newspapers. But few are talking about students who walk past the rallies that protest the result of their…
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Community In Defense of the ‘Jewish Establishment’
Some young Jews have barely experienced anti-Semitism in their lives, and for that they have the “Jewish establishment” to thank. Others of us, however, have not been so fortunate, and still depend on Jewish institutions to provide us with the communities and tools that we need to deal with everyone from the “alt-right” to our…
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Fast Forward University Of Illinois Campus Community Condemns ‘Jewish Privilege’ Fliers
Following the circulation on campus of posters claiming that “ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,” a wide range of faculty and student groups at the University of Illinois at Chicago denounced the fliers as hateful and potentially alienating. “We condemn these anti-Semitic assaults as well as the divisive suggestion that Black and Muslim…
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News What You’ve Been Waiting For, Sleepaway Camp For Adults
NEW YORK (JTA) — The campers wake up in their cabins on Friday morning, dress and go to breakfast. Next comes a range of activities — arts and crafts, archery, kickball. Then, after an hour of primping and preening for Shabbat, they gather as the sun sets and head to Shabbat dinner, where they will…
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Fast Forward ‘End Jewish Privilege’ Poster Circulates on Chicago College Campus
Anti-Semitic fliers calling for an end to “Jewish privilege” have been strewn all over the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, according to student Eva Zeltser, who posted an image of the poster with her commentary on Tuesday. “Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,” the flier shouts, purporting to show with…
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Opinion We’ll Lose College Students If Israel Becomes a Right-Wing Republican Cause
(JTA) — For decades, supporters of the U.S.-Israel relationship have insisted on strong bipartisanship rather than allying their cause with the Democrats or Republicans. So even while a typical bit of punditry over the past few presidencies was to assert that Bill Clinton, or George W. Bush, or Barack Obama was “the most pro-Israel president…
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