On Thursday Feb. 16, UCLA’s Jewish Awareness Movement (JAM) took part in Ohr Sameach’s annual New York Shabbaton. Ohr Sameach is a Jewish organization that gives Jews with the desire to learn more about their religious background opportunities to do…
An Armed-Peace: Reaction to the Daily Bruin Cartoon
I personally found it unimaginative, pedantic and, in all honesty, lame. But those attributes in and of themselves do not make the cartoon anti-Semitic, and I think those who denounced it as such were doing so based on a strained interpretation.
WSJ columnist Bret Stephens speaks out against the White House’s hostility toward press at annual Daniel Pearl lecture
“If Trump starts trying to sue the newspapers, it will not go well for him,” Wall Street Journal foreign affairs columnist, Bret Stephens, told the crowd of approximately 300 people gathered for the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at the Anderson…
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…
Hillel Speaker Series featuring Dr. Saba Soomekh
The new Hillel Speaker Series, a weekly event featuring a notable scholar or leader in the Jewish community, has created a forum at which students can explore Jewish identity. This past week, students had the opportunity to learn with Dr.…
Daily Bruin Cartoon Draws Outrage
Jewish groups condemned the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s student newspaper, Monday morning for publishing what they said is an anti-Semitic cartoon. The cartoon, drawn by Felipe Abejón, depicts Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of the two pillars of the…
Muslim Student Association: “Understanding the Current Political Climate”
On the evening of Feb. 1st, UCLA students, a majority of them Muslim, flocked into Ackerman’s Bruin Viewpoint room to attend “Understanding the Current Political Climate,” an event hosted by the Muslim Student Association. This event was intended to help…
New Hillel Group LGBTJew Aims to Connect Queer Jewish Students
Senior Kayla Eber, a Design Media Arts major, founded UCLA’s first Jewish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) social group for Jewish students in October of fall quarter. The group’s mission is to provide a communal environment for LGBT Jewish…
From Dealing to Teaching
From Fall 2016 Print Edition, “Transitions” “How does a professional drug dealer end up with a PhD, teaching at UCLA? Israeli-born, Professor Adi Jaffe went from selling drugs to a well-respected statistics professor in the UCLA psychology department.” According to…