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Purim celebrations undimmed despite growing COVID-19 concerns

 By Laina S. Miller For Mitzpeh @LainaSMiller Purim, celebrated this year on Monday evening and Tuesday, arrived in the midst of the growing international COVID-19 outbreak. Traditional celebrations, including parties, gatherings for the ...
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Despite lack of tradition, students describe Purim party at Stamp as huge success

 By Char Freedberg News editor @CfreeOfficial This university’s Purim celebration was filled with the usual things one would find at a Purim celebration: food, noisemakers, an upbeat mood and costumes galore. The holiday celebrates one ...
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Cupcake Wars: Competing for a cause

 By Lisa Woolfson Staff writer @Mitzpeh If you had walked through the doors of Hillel at lunchtime last Sunday, you would have passed through a sea of white sweatshirts with cupcakes printed on them. If you walked further into the building, ...
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African refugee to Israel shares experiences at Terps for Israel event

 By Mohan Xu @XuMohan1 Staff writer Mutasim A. Ali talked about his own experiences in Israel being an African refugee and about asylum seekers and refugee policy in Israel on Tuesday evening, Feb. 25, in Tydings Hall. “One of the reasons ...
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JHacks teaches computer science skills through education-themed competition

 By Mohan Xu @XuMohan1 For Mitzpeh JHacks, a 24-hour hackathon, was held in the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering for the first time on February 15 and 16. Ayelet Senderowicz, a junior chemical engineering major and ...
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Save a Child’s Heart volunteers ask students to share the love on Valentine’s Day

 By Elie Kern For Mitzpeh @Mitzpeh   Stationed outside of Stamp Student Union on Valentine’s Day morning, sophomore public policy and communications major Atara Kahn could be heard asking two questions that are hard to say no to: ...
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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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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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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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