We should be proud of UJS

Much has already been said about the new "Liberation" campaign, but I found Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet's stinging attack particularly disturbing. He claimed that we need "to stop playing the role of victim" and not seen "bending over backwards to appease the oppressor".

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A way to convince the 'uninformed majority' on campus

The "Liberation" campaign seeks to promote "two states for two peoples". However, that's where collective unity stops and the bickering that is so prolific in the Jewish community begins.

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New UJS campaign is an 'insult' to Jewish students

As a Jewish university student, I was disappointed and frustrated when I first heard about the UJS's new "Liberation" campaign.

Having spoken to many other Jewish students, including those involved with running the various JSocs on campuses across London, I have found that I am not alone in feeling incredibly let down and alienated by this latest UJS decision.

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Liberation should be part of the Jewish narrative

A Jewish student recently asked me a seemingly innocuous question:

"But what am I meant to say?"

The question shocked me. The student – a committed political activist – was asking me what she should say when confronted by anti-Israel activists on her campus.

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How the Jewish community can help you get into university

Although I applied for university only a few years ago, I remember the application process with terror. Unlike my academic studies, which built upon the work I had done the year before, every year, from the age of four, this was totally unchartered territory.

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Liberation: the right direction for Israel advocates

Last week's front-page story on the new UJS "Liberation" campaign has sparked a large amount of controversy via Facebook, Twitter and word of mouth.

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Bikes, babies and Shabbat lunch

Having only made it to a JSoc Friday night dinner twice in my first year at Cambridge, I was flattered but somewhat surprised to be invited by the Jewish Chaplain to his house for Shabbat lunch.

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Yale project is the victim of a menacing zeitgeist

Neither the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) nor the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia's (EUMC) working definition of antisemitism are perfect but they are vilified more for what they get right than what they get wrong.

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Time for actions now, not words

The government's new, tougher approach to tackling terror and extremism is, in theory, a step in the right direction.

In practice the Prevent review contained little that we did not already know. There were no great revelations into the previous Labour government's failures, or solid facts on the coalition's future intentions.

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