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Jun 9, 2026, 5:50 PM

I had to choose between my Zionism and my disability advocacy

Protest encampments may no longer block our path to class, but Jewish students like me who are attached to Israel are still barred from full participation in campus life

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jun 8, 2026, 6:59 PM

When Activism Cannot Hear Palestinians

The Activism That Cannot Hear Palestinians The contemporary Western activist often does not hear Palestinians first. He hears the echo of his own redemptive script. “Free Palestine” then functions not as a political demand, but as a ritual formula through...

May 31, 2026, 9:42 AM

Is the Israel-Palestine Conflict overrepresented in student politics?

Student Protest. Photo: Ben Weinstein

Universities are meant to be spaces for open debate, where students engage with a diverse range of political and social issues. At the same time, student politics is expected to reflect the priorities of the whole student body. In...

Sara T. Friedman

May 20, 2026, 4:19 AM

The kids are alright

Noam Bettan from Israel arrives on stage ahead of the dress rehearsal for the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

On campus, online, and even at Eurovision, a new generation of young Jews is meeting hatred not with fear, but with pride and faith

Ezra Landman-Feigelson

May 14, 2026, 11:02 AM

Why I Am Not Attending My College Graduation

My peers in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (DURP at UIUC) will be attending our graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 16, 2026, and I will not be joining them. It isn’t...

Andy Blumenthal

May 10, 2026, 4:43 AM

Israel Must Win the Information War

For more than three thousand years, the Jewish people have maintained an unbroken connection to the Land of Israel. Long before the emergence of the modern international system, Jewish life was rooted in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Tiberias, and across...

May 7, 2026, 8:44 PM

Remembering You’re Not Alone

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Last Friday, Hillel Ontario partnered with Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto to host Shabbat dinner for over 120 Jewish and Iranian students. The following is a reflection of my comments at the event. Many of us are well aware of...

Steven C. Wernick

May 3, 2026, 6:29 AM

Ancient Alliance: What Jewish & Persian Students Know

Not all distance is the same. There is the distance of genuine conflict — of peoples whose interests are irreconcilable, whose histories are defined by what each has done to the other. Closing it, when it can be closed at...

Lucas Shugarman

May 1, 2026, 1:52 AM

On AIPAC, Lobbying, and Double Standards

So far during my time as an undergraduate at the University of Missouri, I have noticed a certain growing obsession with the state of Israel. The contexts for these expressions have been as ideologically diverse as conspiratorial slop such...

Apr 22, 2026, 7:01 PM

From One College Campus — Todah Rabah Shlichim

Third Floor Window, Burack Hillel at 439 College St May 21, 2021 5:25 PM. (courtesy)

Last night at our UVM Hillel’s Yom HaZikaron dinner I deeply felt the impact of the Jewish Agency for Israel shlichim on our campus and around the world. That day our Israel Fellow spent hours in the kitchen cooking the...

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