Jacob Miller is a senior at Vassar College double majoring in Biochemistry and Jewish Studies. For three years, he has been the president of VOICE (Vassar Organizing Israel Conversations Effectively), Vassar’s one and only dialogue based group that holds academic discourse on the topic of Israel/Palestine.
Jacob Miller
By Jacob Miller
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Opinion Vassar Is Actually Handling Anti-Zionist Protests Really Well. I Should Know – They Protested Us
This is one of a number of responses to what happened at Vassar when an Israeli speaker, Hen Mazzig, was protested last week. In 2019, protests against pro-Israel and Jewish speakers are all too common. The topic is a heated one, and speakers getting protested has become almost a daily social media frenzy. These episodes…
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Community Why I Led My Orthodox Classmates On The National Gun Walkout
CHICAGO (JTA) — I’m a sophomore at Ida Crown Jewish Academy, the largest Modern Orthodox high school in the Chicagoland area. When I heard about the #ENOUGH national school walkout, I immediately wondered how my school could participate. Our school motto is “Inspiring Bnei and Bnot Torah to thrive in the modern world”; here was…
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