After her college-age daughter needed to go to the emergency room but didn’t have a way to contact her, a Jewish mother helped to create an app that stores such information and also provides other services college students may need in a serious situation. Gail Schenbaum Lawton was inspired to develop the app, called Umergency,…
Ahhh college. The relaxing campus quad. The funky all-night coffeehouses. The magnolia trees filling the humid air with sweetness. Wait a minute. Don’t most Jews equate the college experience with shuffling past ivy-covered buildings in heavy sweaters? No longer. The amount of Jewish students attending southern colleges has been sharply on the rise. Pockets of…
(JTA) — The FBI has been called in to investigate threats against minority students at California State University, Long Beach, including Latino and Jewish students. Campus President Jane Close Conoley on Wednesday in an email sent to students and university employees confirmed the threats and the investigation. The threats were made over the internet and…
(JTA) — Days after joining a pro-Israel group, Melissa Landa knew something had gone wrong: She said her mentor stopped working with her, pulling out of a conference presentation just days in advance. Landa didn’t know that her mentor, John O’Flahavan, would then stop taking her calls. Or that O’Flahavan would soon dismiss her from…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Anti-Israel activism on college campuses across the country has declined, according to a new report by a campus pro-Israel organization. The report by the Israel on Campus Coalition published Monday shows that there were nearly three times as many total pro-Israel events on campus as anti-Israel events during the past school…
There is a vibrant debate going on about how the Jewish community should treat interfaith couples and the children of intermarried families. I understand why the debate is a difficult one, and why major Jewish institutions wrestle with it. On campus, however, the debate is largely over. At UCLA Hillel, we regularly serve students who…
With its abundance of cultural and creative offerings, Providence has been dubbed the “Creative Capital.” Head down a typical street in the capital city of the country’s smallest state and you are likely to find a unique gallery, a memorable lecture, an edgy film screening, or a highly reviewed, locally-sourced restaurant. Drawing inspiration from its…
The call came on a Sunday afternoon. Adi needed help with her daughter who had been encouraged to attend a small college in Massachusetts. Adi and her daughter, Michal, trusted the advice of their Orthodox day school’s non-Jewish college counselors. They assumed the universities introduced to them would be ones that had other Jewish students,…
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