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Family Put Bruin on the Right Track

Carin Davis April 8, 2004

Jeremy Silverman\’s strength on the field is only matched by his strength of character. A shot put and discus thrower for UCLA, the 21-year-old student athlete has a kind, grounded quality.

Silverman grew up in Annville, Penn., a town with one stoplight and a gas station. As a member of the only Jewish family at a very small high school, Silverman bore witness to some anti-Semitic attitudes. Still, he celebrated the Jewish holidays.

Murky Borders

Rob Eshman July 31, 2003

Amit Duvshani, who is completing his master\’s degree in molecular biology at the University of Tel Aviv, e-mailed Andrew Wilkie, a geneticist at Oxford University, asking to work in Wilkie\’s lab to continue his research into HIV.\n\nWilkie\’s e-mailed response has since seen the world via the Internet. He rejected Duvshani\’s request on the grounds that the young man served in the \”oppressive\” Israeli army, as is compulsory for all Jewish Israeli men.

Educator Retiring to Study in Israel

Sharon Schatz Rosenthal July 17, 2003

As he watched his students play basketball, Rabbi Yochanan Stepen\’s eyes lit up.

\”I felt like I was at Staples Center watching the Lakers play, and I was sitting next to Jack Nicholson,\” Stepen told them.

\”That excited the kids, because names from the news make it relevant,\” Stepen told The Journal.

Learning Together

Rabbi Daniel Bouskila June 5, 2003

In the fall of 1989, I began the process of pursuing rabbinical ordination. Although I would eventually be ordained at Yeshiva University in New York, I did commence my studies as a Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) student, opting to do my first year at the University of Judaism (UJ) in Los Angeles (this was pre-Ziegler School, when the UJ served as a feeder school to JTS in New York).

Holocaust Writing Contest Winners Announced

Journal Staff May 1, 2003

Themes for this year\’s submissions to the fourth Holocaust writing contest by Chapman University\’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education ranged from defiant public protesters in Berlin to the instigators of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising to hate mongers from Hitler to Osama bin Laden.

ADL Takes UCI Newspaper Chief to Israel

Journal Staff September 5, 2002

Abel Pena, editor-in-chief of UC Irvine\’s campus newspaper, New University, was among a group of U.S. college newspaper editors on a Anti-Defamation League (ADL)-sponsored trip to improve understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Surveying ‘America’s Jewish Freshmen’

Rachel Brand August 22, 2002

When Adam Bergman researched colleges toward the end of his senior year at Milken High School, he looked very closely at the quality of their soccer teams and not so closely at the size of their Jewish populations.

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