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Last remaining member of Meimad offers brief post-election thoughts
NAHLAOT, JERUSALEM — The Zooming Etrog found the last remaining member of Meimad, Meir Ben-Oni, walking out of Nahlaot’s heavily Anglo shul Kol Rina after Shacharit on Wednesday morning. Meimad is a left-leaning religious party founded by Rabbi Yehuda Amital in 1999. It is largely considered to be defunct, not having run in this year’s […]
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Hillel CEO, who has previously threatened legal action against students for controversial speakers, decries ‘crisis’ of free expression on campus
Dramatic reversal as Hillel International president and CEO Eric Fingerhut announces support of open discourse, shocking Jewish student activists. WASHINGTON — Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of Hillel International, recently spoke on a panel at the Bipartisan Policy Center entitled “Crisis on Campus: The Future of Free Expression and Intellectual Diversity.” In a stunning about-face, […]