Jewish students at San Francisco State University have been arguing in federal court for more than a year now that their university is anti-Semitic. Their proof: They say the university discriminated against Hillel, the biggest Jewish student group. Other Jewish students — their group is called “Open Hillel” — have joined the case. Yet Open…
(JTA) — A welcome sign of the Hillel at University of Oregon was defaced with a pro-Palestinian message and obscenities. The vandalism at the Hillel building on the campus in Eugene was discovered on Friday. The Hillel posted a photo of the sign in the building’s parking lot on Facebook. One message read: “Free Palestine…
The luxury leather accessories brand Coach is employing Rabbi Hillel’s famous maxim to sell purses, it seems. A tipster sent the Schmooze an Instagram ad for Coach — an image of the brand’s classic design of oblong ‘C’s underneath the words “If Not Now, When?” The famous saying belongs to the first century rabbinic scholar…
(JTA) — Threatening graffiti was written on a sign announcing the future home of the University of California San Diego Hillel Jewish Center. The graffiti discovered early Monday morning read “F—- You All” in letters resembling Nazi swastikas, according to local media. Hillel staff members washed the graffiti off, according to the NBC San Diego…
A student group at Stony Brook University in New York has garnered criticism after calling for the removal of Hillel from campus and comparing Zionists to “Nazis, white nationalists and KKK members,” the Algemeiner reported Monday. Stony Brook’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter came under fire after one of its members, Rakia Syed,…
Hillel International is facing down a revolt over its endorsement of a controversial Trump administration nominee for a key position at the federal Department of Education. The Jewish campus group sent a letter in November to a U.S. Senate committee endorsing George W. Bush administration alumna Kenneth Marcus’s appointment to lead the DOE’s Office for…
A version of this article originally appeared in New Voices. I saw women and men sitting across from each other at tables and sat on the ground in between to make my presence visible. It was awkward for all of us. Apparently the irony of a heteronormative speed dating event taking place next door to…
Recently I ran into two Forward articles on my Facebook feed: “It’s time for Hillel to become a democratic institution” by David Schraub, and “What the Jewish establishment got wrong about the Princeton Hillel Controversy” by Yosef Kessler. Schraub advocates that Hillel should become a democratic organization, modelled after the Union of Jewish Students in…
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