Duke Hillel Fights Pro-Palestinian Forum
The Israeli-Palestinian issue is intensifying the fall-semester buzz at Duke University this year.
The Israeli-Palestinian issue is intensifying the fall-semester buzz at Duke University this year.
Indeed, like Dorothy from the \”Wizard of Oz,\” I am a young adult on a quest to find her inner soul and place in life. Dorothy transitions from childhood to adulthood, and travels to Oz only to fathom that everything she wanted was in her home, in her own backyard.
After sharing space with Irvine United Church of Christ since 1991 and growing from 80 families to 600, University Synagogue starts a new chapter in its history, moving on Aug. 22 into its own building.
On-campus Jewish groups were upset that the administration did not get outside verification of the meaning and symbolic nature of the stole, said Jeffrey Rips, executive director of the Hillel Foundation of Orange County.
A feared confrontation between Jewish and Muslim students during graduation ceremonies at UC Irvine was largely avoided Saturday, following a week of heated charges and countercharges.
My school has trained us for the academic rigors of a university. However, it has failed in preparing us for the necessities of the real world, or what my grandmother calls the \”nuts and bolts of life.\” We aren\’t alone. Today, this lack of practical skills among high school seniors is an epidemic. Web sites across the Internet list instructions for college students on everything from how to use a dishwasher to balancing a checkbook.
I\’m sitting in Gina\’s Pizza, the local hotspot for members of UC Irvine\’s Greeks.
The Los Angeles campus of California State University hardly seems fertile ground to introduce studies on Jewish culture and history.
Nadav Morag has joined the University of Judaism (UJ) as the first director of its new Center for Israel Studies and chair of the political science department.