Graduating Terps prepare to say goodbye at Hillel’s Senior Send-Off
By Abby Wallisch
For the Mitzpeh
@Mitzpeh
The Hillel community is looking forward to its next big upcoming event from May 12 through May 14, which is centered around celebrating graduating Terps. The weekend includes a Shabbat dinner, beer garden and barbecue with Ari Israel, Hillel’s executive director.
Program and operations associate ...
New SGA should combat hateful messages directed toward Jewish community
By Sean Strader
For the Mitzpeh
@seanstrader13
With a new student government in place for the next academic year, there are many issues it must set its sights on. However, with hostile messages still being posted around campus, maintaining a positive and welcoming environment around this university should hold a place of urgency on its ...
Anti-Semitic posters denounced by campus-wide community, now face judgment
By Mitzpeh Staff
@Mitzpeh
In 1644, John Milton made the case for a “Marketplace of Ideas” in his poem “Areopagitica,” and hundreds of years later, we still struggle to put it into practice. This theory, expounded upon in Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ opinion of the 1917 Supreme Court case Abrams v. United States, avers that all ...
MEOR commemorates 9/11 with memorial, hosts annual 5K and welcome BBQ
UPDATE: This article has been edited from the original version, which was posted today (Sept. 13) at 1:17 p.m. See corrections at the bottom of the article.
By Senaya Savir
@senayasavir
Staff Writer
On Sunday, Sept. 11, MEOR, an organization that supports and promotes Jewish culture amongst students, hosted its annual “Welcome Back 5K ...
Jew You Should Know: Akiva Futter
By Jacqueline Hyman, opinion editor, @jacqbh58
When senior computer science major Akiva Futter noticed that most hackathons take place between Friday and Saturday nights, impeding observant Jews from participating, he created JHacks.
JHacks’s purpose is to plan hackathons that occur from Saturday to Sunday nights, allowing Jews and ...
JLIC Purim shtick video competition draws crowd to Hillel post-megillah reading
By Jacqueline Hyman, opinion editor, @jacqbh58
After a Megillah reading and a break fast for the Fast of Esther, members of this university’s Jewish community crowded Maryland Hillel to vote on their favorite Purim shtick videos at Purim Night Live: Digital Shorts Competition last Wednesday.
The March 23 event included the ...
