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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...

May 13, 2026, 9:27 PM

An anti-Israel camp at a Holocaust deportation site is a disgrace

The Square of the Jewish Deportees in Hamburg

Right across from the Dammtor train station in the center of Hamburg in Germany, the Moorweide park is currently occupied by an anti-Israel camp calling itself "Bridges of Resistance". Inside this camp, rhetoric is used that questions Israel's right...

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...

May 7, 2026, 4:21 AM

We’re Not Backing Down. We’re Doubling Down.

There is a feeling settling over many Jewish communities in Canada right now – difficult to describe, but impossible to ignore. It is the feeling that something foundational has shifted. You see it in the headlines: violent attacks targeting synagogues and...

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...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Mar 25, 2026, 12:52 PM

When the Campus Becomes a Border for Jews

The university was supposed to be the place where a person entered as a mind, not as a tribal suspect. It was supposed to be the one institution in the West that could survive passion by submitting it to...

Feb 18, 2026, 1:33 PM

What makes students in Israel show solidarity with a terrorist hotbed?

On January 6, 2026, Border Police and IDF forces carried out a raid on Birzeit University in the West Bank following riots involving hundreds of suspects, which included stone- and rock-throwing from rooftops toward the forces. Eleven people were...

Feb 12, 2026, 11:36 PM

When Zionism is treated as a slur, Jewish identity becomes collateral damage

Over the next few weeks, campuses around the world will mark “Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW). There will be aggressive rallies, discriminatory installations, hateful slogans, and biased social media campaigns. Students will walk past mock checkpoints on their way to class...

Feb 5, 2026, 11:56 PM

A Therapist’s View: Jewish Students on Campus

“I don’t feel safe on campus unless I pretend to be someone else.” Yet another therapy client said it in session, usually followed by “But it’s fine,” or “I’ll get through it.” What troubles me most is the resignation beneath...

Feb 4, 2026, 7:48 AM

Space lasers, juice boxes, and my generation’s blind spot

Internet trolls spamming 'juice box' emojis in a comment thread to bypass hate speech filters.

Gen Z Jews are drowning in so much internet irony that we have lost the ability to recognize hate when it's staring us in the face

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