Student beaten outside Ozar Hatorah school in Paris
Jewish Journal
March 27, 2012
A Jewish boy reportedly was beaten outside the Ozar Hatorah school in Paris by youths shouting anti-Semitic epithets.
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Student sues UC Davis over Jewish fraternity hazing
Jewish Journal
November 14, 2011
A former University of California at Davis student has filed a lawsuit against the university. His claims include negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and creating a hostile educational environment — all stemming from the university’s refusal to address his complaints about hazing at a Jewish fraternity on campus.
Indiana University student still missing
Jewish Journal
June 15, 2011
Lauren Spierer, a sophomore at Indiana University, remains missing a week after disappearing on her way home from a sports bar. Spierer’s case was featured June 11 on Fox’s “America’s Most Wanted.”
Student files ‘hostile environment’ complaint against York
Jewish Journal
March 25, 2011
A York University student filed a complaint with Ontario\’s Human Rights Tribunal alleging the university tolerated an environment hostile to Jews. Sammy Katz claims that he and other students were subject to physical and verbal abuse at a pro-Israel event on the university\’s Toronto campus in February 2010.
Jewish student suing UC Berkeley for civil rights infringement
Jewish Journal
March 8, 2011
A student has brought a federal civil rights lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley, saying the university did not protect her from being attacked because she is Jewish. Lawyers for Jessica Felber, 20, say the case, filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., on March 4 against the university, the regents of the University of California and their ranking officials, is the first of its kind.
Honey, you’re home!
Rachel Heller
April 18, 2008
Stop me if you\’ve heard this one before.
Student gets into good university. Student obtains esteemed degree. Graduate flounders in unsteady job market; must confront the dreaded possibility of moving back in with her parents, Ima and Abba, whom I dearly love — and come college, was all too ready to leave.
Letter from Jerusalem
Rabbi Elazar Muskin
March 21, 2008
Condolence visits are part of a rabbi\’s life, but no one ever taught us how to make nine visits in a 48-hour period. We arrived in Israel on the morning of Tuesday, March 11, and left Israel the following night. Our mission, representing the Rabbinical Council of America, was to express solidarity with the families of the victims of the terror attack at yeshivat Mercaz Harav, comfort the injured in the hospitals and visit the yeshiva.
Briefs: AJCommittee lobbies Sacramento for fuel efficiency; West Coast Service Corps helps others
Jewish Journal
March 14, 2008
News briefs.
UCLA students rally for captured Israeli soldiers
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2007
Some 300 UCLA students rallied Tuesday (Oct. 30) on campus to demand the safe return of three kidnapped Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev and Gilad Shalit.
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