An Open Letter to Bernie Machen: It’s OK to be wrong
(08/26/14 1:00am)
Dear President Bernie Machen,
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UF Hillel appoints CEO Adam Grossman as acting rabbi
(08/26/14 12:59am)
Rabbi Adam Grossman has been working as the executive director and CEO of UF Hillel since July 7 and is now serving as the organization’s active rabbi.
Birthright trips not stopped by conflict
(07/28/14 11:55pm)
Weeks of airstrikes, elusive cease-fires and a flight ban have not deterred a teen travel program from continuing trips to Israel.
Hamas hasn’t and won’t respond to Israel’s plea for peace
(07/28/14 11:48pm)
You walk into a restaurant at 6:55 p.m. in anticipation of your 7 p.m. date. When 7:10 p.m. approaches, there is no sign of your date. And when you cautiously pick up the phone to call, there is no answer. You wait a little longer and call again. Someone picks up the phone, and within a mere second, the call is ended.
World events don’t need US’ blessing
(07/28/14 11:24pm)
America must come to grips with an uncomfortable reality: Our world influence is beginning to wane. The two main crises that have dominated the airwaves for the past few weeks, the Malaysian Airline downed by Russian-backed Ukrainian separatist forces and the latest chapter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, have made this development perfectly clear. We have overstretched, overreached and overplayed our influence for too long.
Israel should not be criticized for defending itself
(07/17/14 1:19am)
Tuesday’s Alligator column voiced misconceptions regarding the situation between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. The real problem is not Israel, but Hamas.
United Through Prayer
(07/15/14 1:21am)
Rabbi Aaron Notik wraps the tefillin, used for prayer, around UF student Jonah Suissa, 20, on Turlington Plaza on Monday. The Lubavitch-Chabad Student Group held a rally to promote Jewish unity to support the citizens of Israel.
Speaking out against Israeli attacks
(07/15/14 12:38am)
The situation in Palestine that has taken place over the past four weeks has brought us to speak out against the unjust collective punishment being levied on the Palestinians by the state of Israel.
UF Hillel reshaping its Israel initiative
(06/05/14 1:09am)
Stephanie Kreitzer was packed onto a bus in a foreign country with about 40 students for 10 days. She discovered a new place to call home and developed a newfound sense of pride for her Jewish heritage during Taglit-Birthright Israel.
'Settler colonialism' column misleading
(06/03/14 12:08am)
I recently read a rather unsettling column in the Alligator placing significant blame on Israel for a situation that does not lie in its own hands.
Settler colonialism is alive in Israel
(05/27/14 12:14am)
When you hear the words “settler colonialism,” you might think of it as something that went away in the 20th century, but look no further than the often touted “only democracy in the Middle East:” The state of Israel that was established 66 years ago. While this is often described as a moment of liberation for the Jewish people after facing a thousand years of European anti-Semitism, which we saw the worst of in the Shoah (Holocaust), for Palestinians 1948 represents a traumatic event that they describe as al-Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic.
Palestinian students visit Gainesville in sister city program to raise money, awareness
(04/13/14 11:09pm)
Palestinian and Gainesville families came together this weekend to raise money and awareness for a proposed school for the deaf in the West Bank, near Palestine.
News shows we are united by human experience
(04/08/14 11:38pm)
The recent, tragic developments in the Israel-Palestine conflict are always front-page news. The struggles of the European Union offer promising articles. And for some reason, the media seems to be getting a kick out of the fact that all undergraduates in North Korea must cut their hair like that of their supreme leader, Kim Jong Un. I guess that’s what it takes to sell papers these days.
Accent should invite more alleged criminals
(04/07/14 11:17pm)
Accent Speakers Bureau announced its sponsoring of Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister, before he abruptly canceled the visit on April 1. I find myself defending Accent’s decision to bring the ex-Israeli prime minister. This might strike you as odd, considering Olmert’s dark side, but let me explain.
Accent blunders suggest tokenism
(04/03/14 11:42pm)
On Monday, I was surprised to learn that Accent Speaker’s Bureau had to cancel its event featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert after he backed out of the interview. I assumed it was an early April Fools’ Day joke. The news of the cancellation came the same day that Olmert was convicted of bribery in a Tel Aviv court for taking $160,000 in bribes to speed along government permits to build the Holyland housing estate while he was the mayor of Jerusalem.
New senators sworn in at first SG meeting following elections
(02/26/14 1:04am)
In the first Student Senate meeting following Student Government elections, the election results were validated and a new Senate president, Senate president pro tempore and members at large were elected and sworn into office.
Anti-intellectualism threatens the US
(02/18/14 12:06am)
The UF Student Senate has again proven to be poorly imitating the anti-democratic actions of the U.S. Congress. Is it a coincidence that just weeks after the Student Senate tried to pass its own oppressive resolution concerning Israel, the U.S. Congress is now attempting to do the same?
College newspapers should remain independent
(02/16/14 11:43pm)
Problems arise quickly when student newspapers aren’t controlled by students, such as Rutgers University’s newspaper, The Daily Targum. Last week, The Targum’s former opinions editor spoke out in a piece that appeared in the Huffington Post about how her right to freedom of speech was violated when her goodbye column for the newspaper was pulled by the papers’ board of trustees for failing to align with its political values.
Jewish UF students react to change in Birthright eligibility
(01/29/14 11:55pm)
Taglit-Birthright Israel, the free, 10-day heritage trip to Israel for young, Jewish adults, recently made changes to its eligibility requirements that will now allow more people to apply.
Dead Sea
(01/29/14 11:54pm)
A group of UF students hikes in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve, located near Israel’s Dead Sea, during a Birthright trip in May. UF Hillel takes Jewish students on the free, 10-day trip in the winter and summer.
