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May 13, 2018, 9:43 PM

Just call me Anti-Assimilation Lady

Illustrative: Parrish Hall at the center of the Swarthmore College campus in Pennsylvania. (Wikipedia/Ugen64/Public domain)

Jews on my Indiana college campus feel Jewish, but they don't connect to any of the Judaism I know

Avrohom Gordimer

Mar 15, 2018, 10:00 PM

Yeshiva University's policies about women

A view of Yeshiva University’s Zysman Hall (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

To Deborah Klapper: A yeshiva is no place for mixed-gender religious leadership, pluralism, or any contemporary value

Feb 22, 2018, 8:31 PM

Auschwitz taught me vague promises don’t eradicate hate

My trip to Auschwitz taught me that the ones who remain silent in the presence of oppression are only assisting the oppressors. Growing up on a council estate in Ealing, historic events like the Holocaust weren’t things discussed at school...

Feb 21, 2018, 12:12 PM

The death of Israel Apartheid Week on UK campuses

Illustrative: A poster put up without permission in a London underground train on February 22, 2016, to mark the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement's 12th anti-Israel Apartheid Week.

Of course BDS boycott tactics are failing; comparing Israel and South Africa never stacked up to begin with

Feb 20, 2018, 6:17 PM

Young hissers make university life unbearable

The girl carrying the poster hissed at me as I started taking photographs. “What side are you on? What side are you on? I refuse to let you use my image!” And she marched up to one of the already...

Feb 4, 2018, 1:14 PM

Empowering to educate on anti-Semitism

When I joined university, I never expected to meet anti-Semitism in an overt way. I’d heard stories, of course, one always does – of snide comments, subtle anti-Israel feeling, usually non-violent protests. But I never expected to be faced...

Khulan Davaajav

Jan 12, 2018, 4:36 PM

Universities have become islands of censorship and propaganda

The core components of what university is supposed to be about - learning, debating, challenging our own viewpoints - have come under assault from professors, students, and those who do not believe in the exchange of ideas. We have come...

Jan 5, 2018, 2:49 PM

New NUS president is just the tonic for the post-Malia era

The latest bump in the road for Jewish students and NUS shows the relationship is more about trust than anti-Semitism. This week we saw the National Union of Students send a form out to its members – asking students their...

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Jan 3, 2018, 1:55 PM

What is anti-Semitism? It's complicated

Sam Zerin, with his wife Rabbi Rachel Zerin and their son, said the JCC bomb threats recalled an anti-Semitic threat his middle school received when he was 13. (Courtesy of Zerin family via JTA)

It's not just Nazi Jew-hatred anymore, but the Jewish right and Jewish left against each other

Dec 7, 2017, 11:56 AM

My non Zionism makes me the best candidate to lead this union

My campaign is about lots of issues. Mental health support, more financial support for poor Jewish students, pushing UJS to campaign for free education, more inclusion for non-orthodox Jews and better parties. But for the most part the Jewish press is...

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