
When Is Sex Improper?
Rabbinical Students Struggle With Morality and Modernity
(March 1998)
For many students at the seminary, these events raised questions about several issues, specifically a rabbi's right to privacy, the moral standards of rabbis, and the problems that modern society poses to Jews committed to halakhah.
Taking The Plunge
The Am Echad/One People Jewish Unity Conference
(March 1998)
"For want of a better term, we named it a "pluralism conference." In reality, it was a "pluralistic" conference, bringing together students from across the Jewish spectrum."
From Currency To Community at the University of Michigan
(February 1998)
"To many it comes as a surprise that the project most successful in the past two years at engaging high percentages of Jewish students has been a fundraising campaign."
Jewish Fraternity Foibles
At Indiana University, ZBT scandal inflames campus
(December 1997)
"One year shy of its fiftieth anniversary at Indiana University and its 100th anniversary nationally, the Jewish fraternity Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) has been hit with a scandal that threatens to linger for years to come."
Ivy League Makeover
Has Princeton's investment in Jewish life fallen on deaf ears?
(November 1997)
"In the three years since it opened, the CJL has indeed revitalized Jewish life on Princeton's campus. Why then, in that same period, has Jewish undergraduate enrollment at Princeton dropped by one-third?"
The Wake Up Tour
A new student movement plans to tour North America encouraging Jewish activism
(November 1997)
"This past May, a group of Canadian students studying in Jerusalem decided that the time had come to conclude their idealistic debates, cafe philosophizing and constant discussions enumerating the problems which have plagued the modern Jewish world..."
The New Puritanism
Is Dorm Life At Yale Immoral?
(October 1997)
Press outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, Time, The Boston Globe, and The New Yorker have focused their gaze on New Haven after five Orthodox Jewish undergraduates threatened to file a suit against Yale. Prominent Washington attorney Nathan Lewin has agreed to take their case.
Union Power
Jewish students abroad run the show
(February 1997)
When a speaker recently heralded them as "the future of the Jewish people," the assembled members of the French Union of Jewish Students (Union des Etudiants Juifs de France - UEJF) stood up and left the room. Vanessa Bressler, a student at Sciences Politiques in Paris and the chair of UEJF explained, "They have to know that we're not the future‹we're the present and they have to deal with us now. If they won't deal with us now, we're not going to listen to them."
Jewish Studies 101, Take 1
(February 1997)
"During the five years I've been at Vassar, the institution has finally come to a point where it has acknowledged that Jewish Studies as an academic discipline is, in fact, multidisciplinary, cutting across the boundaries of religion, history, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, art and political science. . ."
Ritual To Habitual
Drugs, Alchohol, and Jewish Students
(March 1997)
Do Jews still drink the way they once did? Stacie Garnett examines the state of Jewish drinking on campus in 1997.
Inside Hillel's Closet (April 1997)