To my child on the way to college
Jewish Journal
August 31, 2011
This is the beginning of your life’s great adventure. At your bar/bat mitzvah, we spoke about you becoming an adult.
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Touro College offers West Coast alternative
Jewish Journal
October 31, 2008
\” . . . I chose Touro College over other secular colleges in Los Angeles, because I wanted to stay in a Jewish environment and be able to receive my degree from a respectable accredited university . . . \”
Collegians do the ‘Write Thing’ at GA
Leni Reiss
November 9, 2006
This will be the 17th year that a select group of Jewish collegians, as members of the Do the Write Thing team, will have its own prestigious place in the General Assembly.
Keeping the SAT Drama to a Minimum
Julie Brown
February 23, 2006
Applying to college was not this complicated 25(ish) years ago. I think I took a PSAT. I know I took the SAT. I took it one time. I did relatively well. I got into UCLA. But times have changed. If I packaged up my high school transcripts and SAT score today, UCLA probably would laugh my application right out of the admissions building.
Hillel Readies Plan of Attraction
Sue Fishkoff
November 17, 2005
It was in the summer of 2004 that Hillel began work on a five-year plan to attract the two-thirds of Jewish college students who say they don\’t go to Hillel activities. That troubling statistic has been one of the most talked-about findings from the 2000-2001 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS).
Between the Pages for Young, Young-at-Heart
Gaby Friedman
September 15, 2005
Let\’s face it. Many people go to synagogue on the High Holidays because they have to. A feeling of poorly understood and unappreciated obligation can pervade this time of year. But it doesn\’t have to. You can put yourself or your children in the spirit and in the know with help from this by-no-means-comprehensive list of titles that elucidate the prayers and customs of the holiday.
Etan G — A Nice Jewish Homeboy
Naomi Pfefferman
March 4, 2004
The boychick is Etan G, who calls himself The Jewish Rapper and whose CD, \”South Side of the Synagogue,\” features songs such as \”Yo Yo Yarmulke\” and \”Hava Na Wha?\” Even so, it\’s startling when he ushers a visitor into a living room that appears to be decorated by the set dressers from both \”Yentl\” and \”Shaft.\”
Book Preps Jewish Students for College
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
May 22, 2003
Jeff Gabriel knows that when he arrives at the University of Colorado in Boulder this September, connecting to his Jewish roots won\’t be a priority.
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