Gainesville Jewish community observes an atypical Yom Kippur
While COVID-19 has changed everyday life, Gainesville residents and students are finding their own way to observe Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar.
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While COVID-19 has changed everyday life, Gainesville residents and students are finding their own way to observe Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar.
Despite living through the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, several businesses and restaurants in Gainesville represent cultures of love, hard work and community through this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month.
In the past, community members would gather to bid farewell to their dead. Now, services are limited to immediate family members while others watch from a phone or computer screen.
Social distancing measures have made canvassing and fundraising money more challenging for congressional candidates.
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A banner that read “Day of Rage, Statewide Action” hung above candles left behind from a vigil from weeks past: another protest found its home outside Heavener Hall.
All five Alachua County commissioners and the county manager were named defendants in a civil rights complaint filed on May 11 over the county’s face mask order.
Editor's Note: If you think you might have COVID-19, contact the Alachua County Health Department at (352) 334-7900 or the Student Health Care Center at (352) 392-1161.
Classes are moving online and students are moving out as UF continues to monitor the coronavirus pandemic.
Katie Hernandez (on right), the UF AIPAC liaison and Gators for Israel president, and other attendees from the UF delegation pose for a photo at the three-day AIPAC conference.
UF students who recently rallied for Israel at a conference with government officials were unknowingly exposed to two New York attendees who were later confirmed to have coronavirus.
This week, I have eagerly anticipated the Cheryl ’77 podcast episodes by UF’s Alisson Clark and Emily Cardinali. Alisson and Emily are on a mission to discover the author and intended recipient of a love note inscribed in the concrete sidewalk just off University Avenue in the courtyard by Matherly Hall on UF’s campus.
A man was arrested after reportedly sneaking into a UF residence hall, pulling a fire alarm and entering the room of a female resident assistant, according to a University Police arrest report.
While President Trump believes he has a solution for peace in the Middle East, UF students are more divided on the issue.
Judaism will now be considered a nationality in the U.S. after President Donald Trump took action against rising anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incidents at colleges and universities.
UF students and faculty received an email last Friday correcting a previous university statement: protesters did not definitively use anti-Semitic language against a campus speaker in November.
On Friday, UF student affairs interim vice president Win Phillips sent an email to students addressing two incidents he said were related to racism and anti-Semitisim, stating UF “places the highest value on creating a diverse, inclusive and welcoming environment.”
UF administration sent an email to students Friday afternoon with a statement denouncing “two incidents in the past week related to racism and anti-Semitism.”
Editor's Note: This letter includes details of a statement made by IDF reserve member Yoni Michanie in which he said that protesters referred to him as a Nazi while he was speaking at UF. Recent reporting by The Alligator includes first-hand testimony from students, a UF professor and videos of the protest that do not corroborate Michanie's claim of paper signs referring to him as such. The author of this letter did not attend the event.