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Fast Forward Little Anti-Israel Activity at 97% of Colleges
Ninety-seven percent of U.S. and Canadian college campuses report no anti-Israel or anti-Semitic events, and the campus-based anti-Israel divestment effort has failed, according to a new study. The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise released the findings of its new study, “Israel and the Campus: The Real Story,” on Tuesday. Mitchell Bard, the AICE’s executive director, and Jeff…
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Food The Next Big Thing in Jewish Food Education
In the past few years, the world of Jewish food education has grown by leaps and bounds. People around the world are thinking about the connections between Jewish tradition and contemporary food issues, and working hard to help their communities see these issues through a Jewish lens. Hazon stands at the forefront of these conversations….
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News Blind Camper’s Case Spotlights Special Needs
Solomon Krishef was thrilled to learn that this summer he could go to his Jewish sleepaway camp for eight weeks – twice as long as the previous four summers. It was not to be for the Michigan teenager. During visiting day in the middle of the summer, his family says, the camp director told them…
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News Coming Up Empty on Title VI
A year and a half after the federal government extended a landmark civil rights law to cover Jewish students, Jewish groups have yet to succeed in using this law against what they see as anti-Semitic anti-Israel activity on campus. A survey by the Forward has found that at least 10 anti-Semitism cases have been filed…
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Opinion Being ‘Pro-Israel’ Isn’t Enough
The David Project recently issued an important “white paper” that identifies the campus as the “primary path by which anti-Israelism enters the American public debate.” The report does a good job of describing the institutional and intellectual factors that are contributing to demonization of Israel on campus and that result — at some universities —…
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Opinion Quashing France’s Israel Apartheid Week
This is the week that wasn’t — at least if you planned on attending the colloquium “New sociological, historical and legal approaches to the call for an international boycott: Is Israel an apartheid state?” Scheduled to take place on February 27 and 28 at the University of Paris VIII, the colloquium was quashed last week…
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Opinion The Title VI Crusade Gains an Address
A new, Washington DC-based organization will advocate for the rights of Jewish students under federal civil rights law. Led by Kenneth Marcus, the former staff director at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Louis D. Brandeis Center, Inc. will focus on research, advocacy, and education on anti-Semitism and the law, and will also litigate…
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Food Motivating Camp Kids Without Sugar
One of the most difficult moments of my stint as Ramah Outdoor Adventure’s first Food Educator came moments before we welcomed in our second Shabbat of the season. Like many camps, Ramah holds a weekly competition for the cleanest bunk (or tent, in this case) every Friday. And like many camps, Ramah was rewarding the…
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