(JTA) — The Seattle-area transit authority can refuse to post an advertisement criticizing Israeli policy as long as it is part of a viewpoint-neutral
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Hillel International said its president, Eric Fingerhut, was pulling out of J Street's u
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- The University of California Student Association passed two resolutions urging the university to divest from several countries, i
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(JTA) -- Two swastikas were spray-painted on a Jewish fraternity's house at the University of California, Davis, two days after the student senate pas
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By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Special to the Jewish Sound “Bringing down Israel will really benefit everyone in the world and everyone in society, p
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(JNS.org) The undergraduate student government at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) voted to divest from American companies that do busines
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Taryn Harris has a lot going on. The University of Washington senior majoring in histor
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(JTA) -- More than 350 anthropologists from around the world have endorsed a boycott of Israel and its academic institutions.The statement was posted
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By David Shayne, Special to the Jewish Sound A while back, I heard Palestinian academic Nadia Elia brag that the boycott, divestment and sanctions
Read MoreAfter reading the recent opinion piece by Rabbi Oren Hayon (“How much have we lost?” May 30) about the divisive BDS debate at the UW, I’m struck by th
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Last Friday, June 22, the Presbyterian church announced its intentions to divest from companies that do business with Israel in the West Bank. Several
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(JTA) -- Jewish groups predicted a rupture with Presbyterians in the wake of a close vote favoring divestment from three companies that deal with Isra
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the Associated Students of Western Washington University in Bellingham voted unanimously that it would not consider boycott and divestit
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By Joel Magalnick Editor, The Jewish Sound Attitudes about Israel can be grouped into three different age groups, according to author and newspaper
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By Paula Libes Chester, Special to The Jewish Sound The Seattle Jewish community came together Wednesday night, May 28, at a packed Temple De Hirsc
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Dear Ari Shavit: I was one of the under-30 audience members in your audience at Temple De Hirsch Sinai on May 28 — one of the “lost” youth who avoi
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound After more than two hours of debate on May 20, the University of Washington student senate
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By Rabbi Oren Hayon, Special to The Jewish Sound In his biography of Pyrrhus of Epirus, Plutarch recounts the details of the ancient Greek general’
Read MoreEmily Alhadeff’s reflections (“Court’s decision highlights a bigger problem,” April 25) on the Olympia Food Co-op’s decision to cleanse its shelves of
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By Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound On April 15, as Jewish students were celebrating the first day of Passover, a resolution wa
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