3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (810+ words) Wednesday, September 9th | 27 Elul 5786 Turkey’s government is expected to allocate almost $5 billion to its controversial Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) next year, marking a substantial budget increase that has raised fresh concerns over the expanding power and influence of an agency whose…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (290+ words) Friday, September 4th | 22 Elul 5786 Repair the World, a nonprofit organization which specializes in training Jewish young adults for the hard work of confronting life beyond college, helps power the operation. Hillel says some 1,000 Jewish students have surveyed its courses and applied…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1007+ words) Friday, September 4th | 22 Elul 5786 Victor Lustig was born in 1890 in Arnau, today known as Hostinné, a small town in Bohemia. Later in life, he would introduce himself as a count whose dynasty had fallen on hard times – but this was total…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (430+ words) Tuesday, September 1st | 19 Elul 5786 As another class of Jewish students arrives on campus this fall, I will not pretend nothing has changed, but I will not tell you everything has. Your first week of college will be a blur of new…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (659+ words) Wednesday, August 26th | 13 Elul 5786 As Germany grapples with rising antisemitism, schools across the country are set to receive Jewish religious education textbooks for the first time since the Holocaust, marking the latest effort to strengthen Jewish life and deepen understanding of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (293+ words) Monday, August 24th | 11 Elul 5786 This is language that was once limited to pro-Palestinian or Islamic media outlets. The usage of these loaded terms in mainstream reporting on the Temple Mount thus marks a significant shift. When the vocabulary used to describe…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (292+ words) Thursday, August 20th | 7 Elul 5786 Academia in the regional south is boosting its reputation as a safe haven for Jewish students with Hillel International announcing last week the launch of its first ever undergraduate office for support and mentorship on the campus…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (168+ words) Monday, July 20th | 6 Av 5786 Let’s get the obligatory acknowledgment out of the way quickly, because it deserves exactly that much space: yes, antisemitism is rising, campuses have been ugly, many (if not most) politicians have been disgraceful, social media is a…...