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Despite a decision by a small cohort to ban 'Zionist speakers,' Berkeley is not hostile to Jewish and Israeli students
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Yiddish World How this NYC high school student came to Yiddish
Read this article in Yiddish To be honest, I was never interested in learning Yiddish. Before the pandemic, it was a dead language to me, something that my parents and grandparents spoke, and before that – my great-grandparents. I have Israeli family, so Hebrew is familiar to me. Yiddish is not. I could understand enough…
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News A USC student leader resigns amid accusations that her Zionism ‘made her complicit in racism’
The newly-elected vice president of the University of Southern California student government resigned on Wednesday, following accusations that she is a racist for her support of Israel as a Jewish homeland. Rose Ritch, a senior from San Francisco who was elected by the student body in February, said in an open letter to the USC…
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Culture Covering A Polarized Community — Jane Eisner At The National Jewish Student Journalism Conference
Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward will be appearing at the 2018 National Jewish Student Journalism Conference, a selective gathering of Jewish student writers, from 2-3:15 p.m. on May 14 at the NYU Bronfman Center (7 E. 10th St, 5th Floor, New York). She will join an editors’ roundtable called “Covering a Polarized Community” with…
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The Schmooze John Galliano Spills to Vanity Fair
Guess what? John Galliano feels bad. In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, Galliano publicly apologized for the anti-Semitic remarks that got him fired from Dior in 2011. “It’s the worst thing I have said in my life, but I didn’t mean it …” the disgraced fashion designer told contributing editor Ingrid Sischy. ” I…
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The Schmooze Jewish New School Students Petition Against John Galliano
The New School’s Jewish Student Union has put out a petition protesting John Galliano’s teaching appointment at the Parsons School of Design. “We do not want money from our tuition going to this kind of person. We feel like we’ve been slapped in the face by our school. There should be no room for this…
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Breaking News Budapest U. Suspends Student Council Over Suspected Listing of Jews
The rector of the University of Budapest reportedly suspended a student council suspected listing of Jews and other minorities. Barna Mezey on Feb. 21 ordered the HOK student council of the humanities to cease all its activities following reports that its members broke the law when they compiled lists on freshmen containing personal information on…
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