After the painful protraction of death for eight years, Ariel Sharon, 11th prime minister of Israel, passed away Shabbat afternoon in the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv. While in office, Sharon suffered a stroke in January 2006 that left…
MERS virus post-hajj
The big scare from October has died down: only one confirmed case of MERS-CoV has been reported in connection to the Muslim hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca and no pandemic has developed from infection-bearing pilgrims returning home and contaminating thousands of…
Are Jews a race? Schuette and university admissions
Trudging up or down Bruin Walk, one sees students advertising events or organizations, hawking wares, or simply skirting gaggles of visitors to UCLA. However, those passersby on Oct. 15 and 17 witnessed a campus-wide march to protest California’s Proposition 206,…
Are Jews a race? Schuette and university admissions
Trudging up or down Bruin Walk, one sees students advertising events or organizations, hawking wares, or simply skirting gaggles of visitors to UCLA. However, those passersby on Oct. 15 and 17 witnessed a campus-wide march to protest California’s Proposition 206,…
Religiously ROTC: the pros and cons of being Jewish in the US military
Rising tuition has long been a favorite gripe of college students, as those of us not blessed with the resources to get through education attempt to reconcile the harsh reality of paying many thousands of dollars per year and possibly…
Memories, friends and the future at CJS’s 20th anniversary
If you couldn’t find Room 314 in Royce Hall, all you had to do was follow your nose. The aroma of meat and vegetable pastries, cooked vegetable dishes, and decadent desserts began somewhere around the offices of the Italian Department…