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First Farsi Holocaust text connects Iranians to Jewish history

November 1, 2012 by dbani

On October 14, I was privileged to be a student delegate at 30 Years After’s 3rd Biennial Conference. 30 Years After is the civic and political voice of America’s Iranian Jews, the first and only organization of its kind. The group seeks to educate, inspire, and mobilize the Iranian Jewish community through civic action conferences, […]

Yiddishkayt’s Helix Project: a modern adventure into the forgotten Yiddish past

October 16, 2012 by Tessa Nath

Cobblestone paths and narrowly winding streets. Freshly painted yellow buildings and crumbling courtyards boarded up in disrepair. Vilnius, summer 2012, or as the Yiddish speaking Jewish population called it prior to World War II, Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania. Ten people walked together, running their hands along forgotten walls and snapping close-up pictures of white […]

The Olive Tree Initiative’s ‘Month of Ideas’: conflict education through humor, food, and constant debate

September 13, 2012 by Jacob Elijah Goldberg

Throughout the month of May, the Olive Tree Initiative at UCLA planned a series of events aimed at educating the campus community and offering a forum for civil discourse and debate about international conflict resolution. These events attracted students of various backgrounds, as well as non-student community members. For many of the attendees, discussing controversial, […]

Answering the call: Jerusalem Online U as a supplementary education for college students and beyond

September 13, 2012 by Tessa Nath

The Problem: anti-Semitism on American university campuses In order to make life a little simpler and to make sense of a chaotic world, humans subconsciously overlook pressing problems, preventing themselves from seeing the harsh reality in front of them and focusing on a delusional form of safety instead. We can no longer ignore the growing […]

Reading Yeshayahu Leibowitz: a Jewish philosophy for the twenty-first century

September 13, 2012 by Josh Friedlander

Questions about Judaism’s place within Israeli society have been around since before the existence of the Jewish state, but there have been few coherent answers put forward. One of the most outspoken voices on this issue, as well as others relating to Jewish identity in the State-of-Israel era, was the scientist, teacher, and philosopher Yeshayahu […]

Survivors’ Message Immortalized Through Storytelling

January 10, 2012 by Tessa Nath

Leon Weinstein and his daughter Natalie Gold Lumer in a loving embrace. (photo by Clifford Lester/Jewish Journal)A 101 year-old man died on December 28th, 2011 in his bedroom in the early hours of the morning. His daughter, a phone call away, expected the inevitable. This man was Leon Weinstein, the oldest survivor of the Warsaw […]

Fear & Loathing in Washington Heights

December 12, 2011 by Josh Friedlander

The winds of scandal were blowing in full force across the Jewish world last week. An article printed in an online publication run by Yeshiva University students became the centre of controversy, and the school demanded that the article be removed. The ensuing debate was covered by Fox News and later even in some other news sources and […]

Walkout at Wayne State: Any Better Than the Irvine 11?

November 7, 2011 by Jacob Elijah Goldberg

Watch the video. Listen to the audio. The clip displays a civil protest and walkout organized by students at Wayne State University in Detroit during a lecture delivered by Jerusalem Post writer and IDF spokesman Gil Hoffman. These students have certainly learned a lesson from the aftermath of the Irvine 11 debacle. Instead of shouting […]

Tenure Shields Professor From the Consequences of Hate Speech

October 30, 2011 by Jacob Elijah Goldberg

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY — On Monday evening, KSU students were treated to a presentation by Ishmael Khaldi, a rising star in the Israeli diplomatic corps. Khaldi has served as Israel’s deputy consul general to the Pacific Northwest, and he currently serves as a political adviser to Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman. He is currently on tour to promote […]

Free Speech, Made Equal: a lesson for Daily Bruin opinion writer

October 24, 2011 by Ashton Rosin

In the October 21st Opinion section of the Daily Bruin, In the Know: Irvine 11 Appeal, writer Brittany Chu attempts to contest the charges of the infringement of free speech, for which the Irvine 11 were convicted. Despite her best efforts, she succeeds only in providing a restricted redefinition of that selfsame right. In February […]

“And Drink Their Words With Thirst”: Have We Lost the Art of Being Students?

October 12, 2011 by Moses Lapin

Note: This article is a direct response to the claim that “Professors are our employees”, contextually implying that they are there to cater to us, let us soap-box our fancies, and give us a pat on the back at the end of the day. This is wrong. Products of the Information Age This is not […]

The 6th of Tishrei, New Year for the Center for Jewish Studies

October 7, 2011 by Moses Lapin

ROYCE HALL – Tuesday, October 4th witnessed the inaugural rendezvous of an under-appreciated league of UCLA Jewish academics, both faculty and students – the Center for Jewish Studies. With it came an invitation to commune and converse with both peers and mentors of the highest caliber, over some stereotypically Jewish foodstuffs (pita and shawarmma, and […]

Olive Tree Initiative meets Dennis Ross

September 3, 2011 by Jacob Elijah Goldberg

When I first embarked on this journey to DC and the Middle East, I intended to thoroughly document my experiences and impressions daily. But I didn’t bring a laptop, nor do I own a smart phone, so for now, I’ll have to briefly describe each day’s events and hope that readers ask questions to which […]

Anti-Semitism Studies returns to Yale despite PLO criticism

August 5, 2011 by Jacob Elijah Goldberg

This past June, Yale University announced that its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), which had been operating since 2006, was meant to be discontinued. The official reason given by Professor Donald Green, director of Yale’s Institu te for Social and Policy Studies, was that YIISA was “generating little scholarly work that earned publication […]