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…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Four national Jewish organizations involved in advocating for Jewish university students have launched a security coordination initiative with the national umbrella for Jewish security. Michael Masters, the incoming director of the Secure Community Network, the security arm of national Jewish community organizations, told JTA this week that the Jewish Federations of North…
Israel was thrown into an uproar on Thursday, complete with screaming headlines and threats of a cabinet shakeup, over a crisis in the Jewish state’s relationship with the American Jewish community. Ironically, most American Jews didn’t hear they had a crisis. It was Thanksgiving, Jewish agencies were shut down and it wasn’t on the local…
Last week, a controversy at Princeton Hillel reverberated throughout the Jewish world. Kenneset Member Tzipi Hotovely, a deputy foreign minister from the Likud party, had been slated to speak about combatting BDS and justifying Israeli settlements. Following a protest from Jewish progressive students, Princeton Hillel decided at the last minute to revoke her invitation to…
In an unusual role reversal, a university Hillel canceled a speaker due to pressure from a left-wing Jewish student group — but now the Hillel has apologized for doing so. Princeton University’s Hillel decided not to host an event featuring Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely when the Alliance of Jewish Progressives claimed that Hotovely…
Princeton’s Hillel has indefinitely postponed a scheduled event with Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, due to pressure from progressive students. The cancelation by the Hillel, known as the Center for Jewish Life, came after students complained that Hotolevy has “repeatedly made racist statements.” Hotovely denies any Palestinian claim to land, and recently told Palestinian…
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