Pro-Israel Bruins Respond to Palestine Awareness Week with #ChooseLove

This week, the Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA (SJP) held their annual event, Palestine Awareness Week (PAW). According to SJP’s Facebook event description, PAW is a “week full of events to raise awareness about the Palestinian struggle for…

Service work around the world

Over spring break, dozens of UCLA students chose to travel to Buenos Aires, Oklahoma, or Southern California in order to participate in one of three alternative spring break programs, organized through Hillel at UCLA. According to the Hillel website, the…

Bruins at AIPAC

“Being a part of sending 40 UCLA Bruins — the largest long-distance delegation — to take part in the biggest gathering of the pro-Israel community truly inspired me to continue the advocacy work I do on campus and encourage and…

10 Signs You Know You are Jewish at UCLA

*in no particular order… 1) You think of clever and creative ways to spy the Jewishness of other Bruins whom you have just met — maybe by looking for Star of David necklaces or bringing up a Jewish event that…

The “AVIous Choice”: Jewish Bruins take on USAC

We’ve heard a lot about Bruins United. According to their website, they were “formed in 2004 when only 50 student groups could apply for funding from USAC,” not including “religious, pre-professional, political, and Greek groups.” They successfully advocated for the…