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From left, sophomore Sydney Brenner, vice president of Hillel, leads a discussion during a J Street U meeting on Feb. 20 in the Six Mile Creek room in the Campus Center. Junior Liz Alexander, co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine, voices her concerns over the lack of collaboration between SJP and on-campus pro-Israel groups at a different meeting April 11.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict reflected in campus community

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • April 19, 2017
Haueter said that while the Hillel sector of the college campus cannot meet with certain organizations, Hillel encourages productive, open dialogue.
From left, junior Ilana Diamant, senior Tal Eyal, lecturer Mirit Hadar and Joshua Edrich ’15 smile at the 2015 Israel Film Festival. Hadar co-created the festival 4 years ago with help from Igor Khokhlov, the previous director of the college’s sector of Hillel.

Film festival spotlights Israeli culture to student audience

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • March 22, 2017
The theme of this year’s festival is “Israel is Real” to combat assumptions that are made about Israel as a result of the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Yejiel Szeinuk (left) and Kayla Reisman, Hillel’s senior engagement associate, speak with sophomore Brandon Schneider about participating in Hillel's Birthright trip to Israel.

Students approved for Birthright travel to Israel despite recent violence

By Michael Tkaczevski, Staff Writer • September 16, 2014
Jewish students at Ithaca College will be able to participate in the Birthright study abroad program to Israel despite the recent conflict between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Commentary: Consumers unwittingly fuel Israeli occupation

By Luna Olavarria Gallegos • October 2, 2013

How often do you support military intervention in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank? Whether you are aware of it or not, we are bombarded by products supporting Israel’s military occupation and its building...

Interactive: Professors share narratives of lifelong activism

By Kelsey O'ConnorShawn Steiner, Editor-in-Chief and Photo Editor • December 13, 2012
For some Ithaca College professors, protesting is how they do their part to enact change in the local community and in the classroom.
Ithaca College professors apply lifelong activism to classroom

Ithaca College professors apply lifelong activism to classroom

By Kristen Mansfield, Staff Writer • December 6, 2012
Ithaca College professors share their past and present activism experience and how they apply it in the classroom environment.
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