Dear Ha’Am, I appreciate your including my email in your news paper. I hope you will be gracious enough to print my response to staff writer Max Tessa’s commentary on that email (sic). The words ’villified’ , ‘alienated’ , ‘undermined’…
Taste of Torah: Basking in the glow
Written by Sharona Kaplan, Rebbetzin for Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus. What’s more emblematic of Chanukah than relaxing near a burning menorah and munching on latkes or doughnuts? The iconic menorah and the traditional oily foods reflect the ancient origins…
Activists are out of line #FromFergusonToPalestine
The past month has been challenging for both our UCLA community and our nation at large. On our campus, tensions flared between the pro-Israel and anti-Israel communities as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel surfaced at both the…
A lack of communication in the fight against BDS
The global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the world’s only Jewish state ignites a pervasive controversy throughout not only campus life at UCLA, but the Jewish community as well. In previous years, the Jewish strategy was to take…
Taste of Torah: Cosmic wrestle-mania for the world’s soul
Written by Dovid Gurevich, rabbi of Chabad at UCLA. Three adventurers from France, Italy and Israel were captured by vicious Caribbean cannibals. In an attempt to be “civilized,” the cannibals offered each captive one last wish before being thrown into…
Prodigious Babes of Jewish History: Nitzevet
An Introduction to the Series: Judaism has always been somewhat of a romantic religion to me. Perhaps it is because it never ceases to evoke within me an authentic array of emotions, ranging from awe to love to apprehension. Through…
Legal battle over passport highlights United States’ refusal to recognize Jerusalem as a part of Israel
A United States passport is one of the most powerful documents in the world. It entitles the holder to travel unimpeded throughout most of the world’s countries, and affords the full protection of the United States government. Like all passports,…
UAW 2865’s BDS resolution and graduate-level discrimination
The recent, controversial Undergraduate Student Association Council vote to divest from American companies that profit from alleged human rights violations in Israel’s West Bank raised tensions among undergraduates. It also inspired a great deal of Ha’Am coverage. While many undergrads…
Bearing witness with the last generation
In this day and age, the vast amount of information available at our fingertips leaves no excuse for anyone to be unaware of the Holocaust’s atrocities. There is a myriad of films, books, and museums depicting the horrors that Jews…
The Pro-Israel response to BDS: appropriate, or not enough?
Did the pro-Israel and anti-BDS communities do all they could to mobilize support against the divestment bill?