CONGRATULATE
YOUR STUDENT'S SUCCESS
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featuring our 2004 graduates!
dents are vitally interested in the arts.
Today, more than 35 schools across the
country have Jewish a cappella singing
groups, including the University of
Michigan's Kol HaKavod and New
York University's Ani V'Ata.
Columbia University hosts an annual
Art and Photography Show. U-M even
has a social-political critique and liter-
ary review called Prospect addressing
many Jewish issues. A recent study has
shown that 43 percent of Jewish stu-
dents have taken a Jewish studies course
in college.
If students are into affecting change,
they can check out Yale where students
regularly tutor at a local New Haven
middle school or the annual Tufts
University literacy carnival, Read by the
River. Jewish students on campus regu-
larly get involved in political action .
with College Democrats and College
Republicans. Michigan. State
University's SpartyPAC, a political pro-
Israel group, is right now gearing up for
a trip to Washington, D.C., to lobby
on the hill.
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Movement Counterparts
Young people come to campus from
different Jewish movements, and these
movements often have counterparts on
the college campus. In choosing a
school, students can select a campus
with an active branch of Kesher, the
Reform college group, Koach for
Conservative students or the Jewish
Learning Initiative, an Orthodox-spon-
sored group that provides opportunities
for students to immerse themselves in
text study.
Students properly use their college
years to improve their leadership skills
and expand their experiences. Campus
Hillels offer many opportunities for
students to develop as leaders and to
travel abroad. Hillels offer alternative
spring break trips within the United
States, to Latin America and to the for-
mer Soviet Union. This spring, Hillel is
sending students from more than a
dozen campuses to different parts of
the globe. For example, students from
the University of Chicago,
Northwestern University, DePaul and
the University of Delaware to
Argentina; from the University of
California, Santa Diego to Honduras;
and from Rutgers University and Johns
Hopkins University to Mexico.
During winter and late spring, stu-
dents can participate in free, ten-day
trips to Israel through Birthright Israel.
These opportunities not only enable
students to grow as leaders and as Jews,
they expose young people to fellow stu-
dents beyond their own campus.
Students who think of themselves as
global citizens should seek campuses
that offer international programs.
Diversity has become an important
value for students. And in this respect,
Jewish students have tons of opportuni-
ties. On campus, Jewish students are
diverse as ever with Queens _College
alone having a Persian Club, an Israeli
Club and a Bukharan Club.
Outside of Hillel, students are inter-
acting with other groups. Princeton
University has regular collaborations
with the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-
Transgender community on campus.
Brown Hillel sponsors an ongoing
Black-Jevvish.Women Dialogue and
NYU has an Arab-Jewish dialogue
group.
Life on a college campus offers con-
fusing choices. Students can look to
Hillel as a resource to help find the
right school and to get the most out of
the college years once they've arrived. ❑
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Sara Norris
We are very proud of you
and all your accomplishments!
May your future be filled with
health, happiness and success.
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Christian conservatives, needless
to say, are chomping at the bit to
make gay marriage the next major
battle in the "culture war." Even
when it comes to Israel, evangelicals
are out of step with American Jews
and Israelis — most of whom would
agree to trade land for peace if a
viable peace plan were proposed.
Evangelicals, by contrast, support
the maximalist ideology of the most
fundamentalist Jewish settlers, who
view territorial concessions as suici-
dal.
The Jewish-Christian alliance was
based on the idea that Israel needs as
many friends as it can get. But it
needs good friends — friends who
believe in the importance of a dem-
ocratic Jewish homeland, not those
whose support for Israel is based on
inflexible theological explanations
for Israel's right to exist.
The rift over The Passion should
be a wake-up call to American
Jewish leaders: The Jewish-Christian
evangelical honeymoon is over. It may
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