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Brandeis University students weighed in on their school's first-ever Passover menu at a seder taste test provided by a local kosher caterer in March 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Brandeis Hillel)
Posted inReligion

What makes this Passover different from all others? Brandeis University is celebrating.

by Penny Schwartz and JTA March 25, 2021

To prepare for Passover, Sam Greene is deep-cleaning his dorm room in keeping with the standards of his Orthodox Jewish family. Lena Ben-Gideon is compiling readings about immigration to supplement […]

A gathering of Jewish fraternity and sorority members in Minneapolis in 1949. (Photo/Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest)
Posted inHistory

What the history of Greek life reveals about Jewish whiteness and the price of assimilation

by Jess Schwalb and Hey Alma November 2, 2020November 2, 2020
Cornell University student Aliza Saunders shows off the supplies she got from Cornell Hillel to celebrate Shabbat on her own. (Photo/Courtesy Cornell Hillel)
Posted inU.S.

‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: Jewish campus life goes virtual

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA August 27, 2020August 27, 2020
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Posted inEducation

Jewish immigrant from Argentina seeks to make college accessible and affordable

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent August 10, 2020August 10, 2020
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Posted inParenting

My daughter started college, and I’m back at Mommy 101

by Julie Levine September 24, 2019
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Posted inU.S., News

Jews with most education are least religious, study finds

by JTA April 26, 2017March 19, 2018

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