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Article 14
The Emails of Zion is a collection of messages from Jewish parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, and others who are eager—often way too eager—to inform their children about issues of pressing concern...
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Today in Tablet Magazine, Tevi Troy, who served as President George W. Bush’s liason to the Jewish community, argues that a rise in American populism could actually buttress Jews’ and Israel’s position...
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Article 12
As the tents in Tel Aviv remain standing and their inhabitants continue protesting the city’s rising housing costs, the movement’s communal environment and physical presence has started to influence...
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Supporters of Israel Offer Strategies for Winning Campus Battles During...
The eighth annual Israel Apartheid Week began this weekend, and over the coming days, walls and mock checkpoints will go up on campuses across the country. What is the best way for Zionists to respond...
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One college student's journey to find balance between Jewish practices and...
On Wednesday, I had the honor of moderating a terrific, lively (that’s Jewish for “contentious”) panel at Israeli Presidential Conference. Titled “The Campus as a Crossroads in the Life of a Young...
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To the Students for Justice in Palestine, a Letter From an Angry Black Woman
The student organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is prominent on many college campuses, preaching a mantra of “Freeing Palestine.” It masquerades as though it were a civil rights group...
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Non-Jewish College Students Find an Unexpected Home on Campus—at Hillel
Nellie Gayle’s introduction to Jewish life on campus began, appropriately, with bagels. In 2011, during her first week at Barnard College, a Jewish friend mentioned a bagel brunch at Hillel. The event...
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At Fordham, Professor Fighting Israel Boycott Is Investigated on Secret Charges
The email arrived on the last Friday afternoon of the spring term shortly before 5:00 p.m. Anastasia Coleman, Fordham’s Director of Institutional Equity and Compliance, and its Title IX Coordinator,...
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Why African-American Firebrand Chloe Valdary Wants To Ignite a Zionist...
When I asked the man next to me in a crowd of several hundred pro-Israel demonstrators outside the Time-Warner Center in New York if Chloe Valdary had spoken yet, I was met with immediate enthusiasm at...
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Jewish Students, It’s Time To Fight the Haters
Is there a more syrupy genre than the commencement speech? Having had the opportunity to deliver one in person, I can report that once you accept the honor and present yourself, becapped and begowned,...
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Where Are The Adults at Yale?
In 2003, I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed freshman at Yale when the Afro-American Cultural Center invited the late Amiri Baraka to speak under its auspices. Baraka (né LeRoi Jones) had been a founder...
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Campus Week: Why Yale Protests Aren't Radical Enough
A number of years ago, I was talking to a brilliant undergraduate and feminist at Yale College, where I teach English. She was discussing something sexist and demeaning that had happened at one of...
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How Hillel Can Reformulate Its 'Israel Guidelines'
Jewish students at many liberal colleges in the U.S. are questioning—and revolting against—Hillel International’s Israel guidelines. At Vassar, Swarthmore, and Guilford, the main Jewish student groups...
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Todd Gitlin's Open Letter to Incoming Students
This article was originally published on Sept 20, 2016, and is presented here for Campus Week 2017. Welcome to campus. When I say “campus,” I mean “campus,” from the Latin, “field.” A campus is the...
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Title IX Campus Witch Hunts, According to Laura Kipnis
This article was originally published on Apr. 14, 2017, and is presented here for Campus Week 2017. A spectre is haunting the American campus, and it’s called Title IX. Originally, you might remember,...
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The Emails of Zion is a collection of messages from Jewish parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, and others who are eager—often way too eager—to inform their children about issues of pressing concern...
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Article 14
Today in Tablet Magazine, Tevi Troy, who served as President George W. Bush’s liason to the Jewish community, argues that a rise in American populism could actually buttress Jews’ and Israel’s position...
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Article 13
As the tents in Tel Aviv remain standing and their inhabitants continue protesting the city’s rising housing costs, the movement’s communal environment and physical presence has started to influence...
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Supporters of Israel Offer Strategies for Winning Campus Battles During...
The eighth annual Israel Apartheid Week began this weekend, and over the coming days, walls and mock checkpoints will go up on campuses across the country. What is the best way for Zionists to respond...
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One college student's journey to find balance between Jewish practices and...
On Wednesday, I had the honor of moderating a terrific, lively (that’s Jewish for “contentious”) panel at Israeli Presidential Conference. Titled “The Campus as a Crossroads in the Life of a Young...
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