World Briefs
JTA Staff
October 25, 2001
The World Brief, news, media, info, updates from around the world.
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October 25, 2001
A Place to Call Home
Orit Arfa
October 25, 2001
On his first day of work in 1985 as executive director of the Hillel Foundation at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Rabbi Stephen Cohen received a telling welcome.
Cohen, a former New Yorker, stepped off the plane and took a cab straight to the University Religion Center (URC), where the offices of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life are housed. A social worker, prompted by the rabbi\’s forlorn and scruffy look, invited him to take part in that day\’s breakfast program for the homeless.
Cohen, 28 at the time, laughed and explained his position.
Free Speech or Harassment?
Merav Tassa
October 25, 2001
When UCLA librarian Jonnie Hargis this month sent out an e-mail to everyone on the library\’s list, he had no idea the chaos he\’d cause on campus.
Hargis wrote in his e-mail that United States taxpayers \”fund and arm a state called Israel, which is responsible for untold thousands upon thousands of deaths of Muslim Palestinian children and civilians.\” He ended his message with: \”So, who are the \’terrorists\’ anyway?\”
Cool Jews on Campus
Merav Tassa
October 25, 2001
College can be a time for Jewish students to further explore their Judaism — religiously, socially and politically. The following is a compilation of resources available to Jewish students and a summary of what these groups are doing on campus.
A Historic Change
Toby Axelrod, JTA
October 25, 2001
History is in the making this fall in Germany with the opening of three new Jewish schools for adults.
The Global Minute
Rob Eshman
October 25, 2001
Suddenly, we find that an alternate universe shadows our world. Its inhabitants see our culture as their poison, our politics as their oppression, our freedom as their threat — The question is how we could have been so blind. Only now is most of America learning about fundamentalist Islam. Just one year ago, when then-candidate George W. Bush didn\’t know the name of President George W. Bush\’s best friend, the president of Pakistan, the public\’s response was, \”So what?\” So, this: Our blissful ignorance turned out to be deadly.
Kids Page
Abby Gilad
October 25, 2001
For the Kids, fun facts, torah portion, and information for kids.
Take 12 Steps
Marlene Adler Marks
October 25, 2001
It would be hard to exaggerate the significance of The Jewish Federation\’s Addiction Conference held Monday at the Skirball Cultural Center. But to compare, think back to the Shechinah Conference held 20 years ago at Hebrew Union College, which helped consolidate and shape Jewish feminism. In its willingness to creatively address perhaps the biggest social issue of our time, the Skirball program is that big a deal.
Sacred Space
Gustavo Arellano
October 25, 2001
The Charles and Nora Hester board room at Chapman University is a typical corporate meeting area; large and devoid of anything sacred, it is located on the second floor of the school\’s main building. Outside the room is a display that highlights the life of Christian philanthropist Albert Schweitzer.
Nothing indicates that this environment is conducive to a strong campus Jewish life, let alone its existence. Yet on a Friday night, while most of their peers were at frat parties or dates, members of Chapman\’s Jewish community were celebrating a Shabbat dinner, singing and praying in Hebrew (with a liberal sprinkling of English) in this very room.
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