MEOR seeks to create relationship with Greek community
By Morgan Caplan
For the Mitzpeh
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MEOR Maryland, a Jewish campus outreach organization, fosters a relationship with the Maryland Greek community, encouraging an education of Jewish values despite differing religious backgrounds.
MEOR hosts a variety of events for anyone in the university’s community such as challah baking, Shabbat ...
“Confront injustice,” says rabbi in speech about civil rights movement
By Amanda Fusting
For the Mitzpeh
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Maryland Hillel welcomed Rabbi Saul Berman Saturday to talk about his experiences in the march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama with Martin Luther King Jr. Berman shared his personal testimony over lunch and shed light on the vast Jewish involvement within the civil rights movement.
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Israel’s new religious database raises questions, concerns from rabbis around world
By Jared Beinart
Staff writer
@Jared_Beinart
Last month, Israel’s Ministry of Religious Affairs announced plans to create a database of every Jewish person in the world for the purpose of speeding marriage registration in Israel, according to The New York Jewish Week.
Rabbi Hezekiah Samin, head of the marriage department of Israel’s Ministry ...
Meyerhoff Center hosts lecture on Hans Kohn’s struggle with nationalism
By Nicole Reisinger
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Adi Gordon, an assistant professor at Amherst College, spoke April 26 to a group of around 25 students and faculty from this university about Hans Kohn’s lifelong struggle with nationalism and his subsequent divergence from Zionism.
Gordon specializes in European and Jewish history and is the ...
Assistant director of Maryland Hillel accepts position in Texas
By Jared Beinart
Staff writer
@Jared_Beinart
The assistant director of Maryland Hillel will be leaving at the end of the semester to pursue a new role as a Hillel executive director in Texas next fall.
“Leaving Maryland Hillel [will be] very bittersweet,” Maiya Chard-Yaron said. “I will miss College Park, Maryland Hillel and the ...
Jew You Should Know: Tzvi Glazer
By Haleigh Whisted
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This university is home to Rhode Island native Tzvi Hersch Glazer, a junior government and politics and sociology major who enjoys not only hanging out with friends but also contributing his time and skills to others.
Dana Rodriguez said Glazer has made a difference in students’ lives with a ...
Students celebrate end of Passover with messiah meal at Chabad
By Gabrielle Kanik
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For almost one-fifth of the students on campus, Tuesday meant the end of the Passover holiday. This year, Passover began at sundown Monday, April 10 and ended Tuesday, April 18 with a traditional last meal, which sometimes includes celebrating the messiah. Ways to celebrate the last meal vary as ...
Conservative Jewish group Ometz provides services, schmoozing, community
By Georgia Slater
For the Mitzpeh
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With over 6,500 Jewish students on campus, according to the Maryland Hillel website, there is a plethora of ways to get involved within the Jewish community. Among these groups is Ometz, the Egalitarian community based in Conservative Judaism that provides students with opportunities to ...
First official Pakistani Jew opens door for Jewish community
By Jake Baum
For the Mitzpeh
@JakeatUMD
On March 28, the Pakistani government notified Fishel Benkhald that he would be permitted to identify his religion on his government-issued identification as “Jewish.”
In any other civilized country, this event would be insignificant. But in Pakistan, a nation where over 96 percent of citizens ...
Over 25 students contribute to OU-JLIC UMD haggadah for Passover
By Asia Hester
For the Mitzpeh
@helloitsasia1
The Orthodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus’s second installment of this university’s haggadah, released Friday, features writings of UMD students that reflect and offer guidance as Passover begins on the evening of April 10.
The idea for the Maryland haggadah originated from ...
