The Jewish Community at UCF hosted a one-of-a-kind event on campus on Feb. 22. Sami Steigmann, a Holocaust survivor and motivational speaker addressed a gathering of over 50 people. The audience was brought together with the help of CAMERA on Campus, ZOA, UCF Hillel, JewCF Chabad, UCF Greek Chapters AEPi,...
Shai DeLuca-Tamasi: A love for design, and the Jewish state
This was published in the print edition of Canadian Jewish News.
Blind Spots Highlight UPenn Human Rights Event
The event held at Penn Law titled “Human Rights in Israel/ Palestine” was part of a week-long series of the school’s social justice action week. The two keynote speakers were Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch and Nadia Ben Youssef of Adallah. Given the title, one would expect the event...
Being openly pro-Israel on campus shouldn’t impact your identity
Unfortunately, being openly pro-Israel on college campuses seems to come with a social cost. For every statement reflecting well on the Jewish state, two criticisms emerge calling Israel racist, sexist and any other number of –isms. This is seen nowhere better than at GW, where Israeli Apartheid Week is in full swing...
The Child Soldiers of Palestine
“We collectively continue failing to stop the war on children,” said the UNICEF Regional Director of the Middle East and Africa in February. “The protection of children is paramount under all circumstances.” In contrast to this view, last week, Zainab Iqbal, Managing Editor of the Excelsior, published “Ahed Tamimi is...
Recent Events
Cambridge University CAMERA Fellow Shlomo Roiter hosted event “5 Broken Camera Critical Watching”. The attendees were able to watch the documentary, “5 Broken Cameras” and have a discussion about the way in which the film emits certain types of information but nevertheless depicts itself as a documentary. Attendees were very...
Academic Boycotts are Bad for the Academy
A Supreme Court justice once said, in the context of the death penalty, that when a judge feels unable to apply a law because of his or her personal views, it’s time to resign and either launch a political campaign or lead a revolution. We might venture similar career advice...
Israeli Food is From All Over. That Doesn’t Make it Any Less Israeli.
In his article entitled “Jewish food tells the story of immigrants, not of Israeli nationalism,” visual artist and food researcher, Rafram Chaddad offers his take on Tablet Magazine’s list of the 100 Most Jewish Foods. Included in the list were staples like Challah and brisket as well as a few...
