Melodies of Memory: Inna Faliks’ Tribute to Jewish Heritage
Jewish pianist, composer, writer, and professor Inna Faliks continues to highlight themes of collaboration and unity in her artistic output. Immigrating from antisemitic persecution and violence in the Soviet Union’s Ukraine to…
Choosing to Intervene: Jewish Perspectives on End-of-Life Decisions
The following is an opinion piece submitted to Ha’Am by Rachel Fox who is a…
Jewish Pride at the Bayit
The resurgence of rampant antisemitism has clouded the Jewish community’s experiences, thoughts and conversations. This…
Melodies of Memory: Inna Faliks’ Tribute to Jewish Heritage
Jewish pianist, composer, writer, and professor Inna Faliks continues to highlight themes of collaboration and unity in her artistic output. Immigrating from antisemitic persecution and violence in the Soviet Union’s Ukraine to Chicago, Faliks was musically gifted from a young…
Purim 5784: Our place in Jewish history
Upon a surface-level study of Megillat Esther, one quickly realizes that the Scroll of Esther — read twice a year on the evening and morning of the Purim holiday — is a book unlike any other in our literary canon.…
Jewish Pride at the Bayit
The resurgence of rampant antisemitism has clouded the Jewish community’s experiences, thoughts and conversations. This shift has been felt on UCLA’s campus, where some UCLA Jewish students feel uncomfortable to publically share aspects of their Jewish identity. Just this month,…
Upon Three Things…
There is a classic Jewish teaching that has become mainstream to such an extent that, I believe, it rarely gets the full contemplation it deserves. Yet, in our current day and age, when many of society’s building blocks are being…
Opinion: Unmasking Antisemitism Expressed by USAC’s Cultural Affairs Commissioner
Cultural Affairs Commissioner Alicia Verdugo encourages protesters to wear masks to conceal their identity but doesn’t try to hide antisemitic sentiments in social media posts made on their UCLA-affiliated social media account. USAC’s Cultural Affairs Commissioner should represent the cultures…
“Ben Gurion Looks at the Bible” Holds Wisdom for the Current Chapter of the Jewish Story
Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, was a socialist who rejected the Marxist belief that all important struggles are economic. Rather than believing that religion, nationalism, and moral ideals obscure economic struggles, he saw intellectual and moral struggle as important…
On Campus, Jewish Students Now Confront the Quintessential “Covenant of Fate”
When he delivered his essay Kol Dodi Dofek to an audience of American Jews on the eighth anniversary of Yom Ha’atzmaut in 1956, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik formulated his vision of post-1948 religious Zionism by referencing the terrors of Treblinka,…
Daily Bruin Investigation on Israel Rally Reveals Bias
Written by Bella Brannon and Adam Thaw On January 16th, the Daily Bruin published a front-page article titled “Documents reveal details behind planning process of Bruins for Israel rally.” The title suggests a grand exposè. Language describing a “deep search”…
The Language of Hate: Confronting Antisemitism at UCLA
Never again is now. For almost three excruciating months, we as Bruins have sat idly by and witnessed the delegitimization, implicit praise, and neutrality to the horrors of October 7th, where Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel and slaughtered, kidnapped, raped, tortured,…
Am Yisrael Chai- UCLA Jewish Community Stands Together Amidst Terror Attacks in Israel
This article contains information about the attacks in Israel. For those who wish to avoid recounting the events of the past few days, or have lost friends and family, we recommend you stop here. ———— On the 50th anniversary of the…
Bruin Bash on Yom Kippur
Growing up attending Jewish day schools, I never had to worry about choosing between my education and my Judaism. While my friends in public schools stressed about missing classes in order to attend High Holiday services, I had days off…
University Leaders Turn a Blind Eye to Campus Anti-Semitism
On December 9th, 2023, the Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter (SJP) at UCLA published an Instagram post claiming that “This fall, Palestinian, Muslim, SWANA and pro-Palestine” students have faced “targeted and violent harassment.” All forms of discrimination should be…
My Six-Pointed Friend
The following poem and subsequent commentary were submitted by Hailey Zill, a third-year student majoring in World Arts and Cultures and Sociology. Hailey is passionate about all things art, Jewish, and travel but most importantly, she loves cats; she is…
Choosing to Intervene: Jewish Perspectives on End-of-Life Decisions
The following is an opinion piece submitted to Ha’Am by Rachel Fox who is a third-year Neuroscience student at UCLA. ——————— Our tradition teaches that all are made in the image of G-d, but provides little explicit guidance when it…