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America’s Border Conflict Part 2: Why many feel comparison between migrant detention centers, concentration camps is inappropriate

 By Tori Bergel Staff writer @BergelTori This story is a continuation from part 1: “Analyzing claims that U.S. detention centers are modern-day concentration camps.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., sparked controversy this ...
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America’s Border Conflict Part 1: Analyzing claims that U.S. detention centers are modern-day concentration camps

 By Tori Bergel Staff writer @BergelTori Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in a series of tweets, posts, videos and interviews this past June, compared the migrant detention centers on U.S. borders to concentration camps, a claim that ...
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Hate-Bias Response panel traces origins of Islamophobia in America

 By Laina Sara Miller For Mitzpeh @Mitzpeh The Hate-Bias Response Program finished their semester of panels about racism on Thursday, Nov. 14, with “Deconstructing Islamophobia.” Co-sponsored by the Muslim Alliance for Social Change, this ...
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Food insecure Jewish students lack affordable, kosher dining options

 By Lisa Woolfson Staff writer @lswoolf3 Around one in every five students at this university is food insecure, according to a Counseling Center study reported in the Diamondback last year. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, being ...
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Jew You Should Know: Avital Hirschhorn

 By Tori Bergel Staff writer @BergelTori The low hum of conversation fills this university's Hillel. A group of girls sits off to the side, hunched over a round table, speaking animatedly to one another. Sometimes they laugh, sometimes they’re ...
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Many Jewish students know little about off-campus kosher options

 By Laina Sara Miller For Mitzpeh @Mitzpeh Kosher observance varies among Jews, and Maryland Hillel provides day-to-day kosher meals for the kosher-observant students on campus. Students who do keep kosher, however, are virtually unaware of ...
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For these Jewish students, studying abroad offers chance to connect with their faith

 By Alexandra Macia For Mitzpeh @Alexand25682625 Many students at this university look forward to going abroad for at least one semester during their undergraduate experience, but for many Jewish students, going abroad can look a little differ...
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Coffee Language House unites students of different cultures through food, foreign languages

 By Nicole D’Costa For Mitzpeh @ndcosta622 Every Monday, members of the Language House have coffee conversations where they gather to speak their representative languages and enjoy snacks from different cultures. Each week, a different culture ...
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At Immigration Shabbat, students share approaches to social justice, immigration policy

 By Maya Rosenberg For Mitzpeh @mayarosenberg_ For those who celebrate Shabbat, Friday nights are filled with a routine of prayer, celebrating the end of the week and most importantly, food. However, Hillel’s Immigration Justice Shabbat ...
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Professor from Israel leads discussion of “The Rabbi and the Sufi Sheikh”

 By Laina Sara Miller For Mitzpeh @Mitzpeh A Sephardic law and ethics professor from Bar-Ilan University came to this university last Monday to discuss his discovery and translation of an 18th-century story about a Rabbi and a Sheikh, transcri...
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