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…
When I arrived at the University of Virginia for my freshman year, I had absolutely no doubt about what my Jewish involvement would look like in college. I brought with me four years of complete and total dedication to my youth movement, BBYO, as an active member of my chapter and serving on the Virginia…
There is a vibrant debate going on about how the Jewish community should treat interfaith couples and the children of intermarried families. I understand why the debate is a difficult one, and why major Jewish institutions wrestle with it. On campus, however, the debate is largely over. At UCLA Hillel, we regularly serve students who…
(JTA) — Tufts University’s Hillel is described as “an organization that supports a white supremacist state” in a student-written guide to activist life at the university. The Tufts University Disorientation Guide offers information on social, spiritual, health and academic resources at the Boston-area university, but singles out Hillel for opprobrium, calling it a “Zionist space”…
My first venture into nondenominational spaces was, like most young Jews, at my college Hillel. I grew up Haredi, so I was interested in meeting other types of Jews and other kinds of Jewish ritual and practice. But I didn’t meet anyone like me. Since then, I have participated in many non-denominational spaces and events,…
College freshmen – many away from home for the first time in their lives – moved into Houston-area universities within the past couple of weeks. Now, Hurricane Harvey and the ensuing flooding have devastated their new home city. Jewish students at Rice University and the University of Houston have been resilient in the face of…
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