Among the shouty population who see their Jewish peers as dirty and inferior, who believe that we are less deserving of our place at university or our right to education because of our beliefs, it is incumbent upon us, the Jewish students at UK universities, to speak even louder. To show that despite their noise, they will not push us out of the places that we worked for and the opportunities that we deserve.
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" If these questions were enough to keep Rabbi Hillel on the straight and narrow, they are probably of some use to us.
When the Chanukiah is lit, we are reminded why it is called the festival of lights. Although we probably aren’t going to get oil to last 800 times as long as it should, it is a timely reminder of the persisting light among what seems like overwhelming darkness, should we choose to have hope.
Ellie Hyman is the JC's student blogger
