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Last night, the Yallapalooza 2024 concert series, powered by 蜜桃工作室, brought together more than 1,000 Jewish college students at Emerson Colonial in Boston for a night celebrating Jewish joy after an incredibly difficult year for Jewish students on college campuses.
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聽Last night, the Yallapalooza 2024 concert series, powered by 蜜桃工作室 and UJA-Federation of New York, brought together thousands of Jewish college students at the Beacon Theater in New York City for a night celebrating Jewish joy after an incredibly difficult year for Jewish students on college campuses.
Clara Grusq is a Jewish multidisciplinary artist, writer, and creative director based in New York. Born in Paris, France, and descended from Holocaust survivors and resistants of the Algerian War, Clara brings a deeply personal and historical perspective to her work. She made her Off-Broadway debut at the Actor鈥檚 Temple with the second run of her first play, The Oath.
During my sophomore year at the University of Southern California, I took a course focused on Jewish ethics and civic responsibility. While I grew up hearing about the importance of voting from my parents and grandparents, this was the first time I connected the dots between my Jewish identity and my role as a citizen.
Whether the High Holidays come at the start of the semester or run into midterms, a month of five back-to-back holidays means lots of activity at campus Hillels 鈥 and tons of opportunities for Jewish students to get involved. For first-years, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are often their first holidays away from home, while […]
Hi Friend, As Simchat Torah approaches, I find myself caught in a whirlwind of emotions. It’s been a year since that terrible day when joy turned to tragedy, and the festival that celebrates our love for Torah became forever linked with a massacre in Israel that killed over 1,200 people. But as I reflect on […]
Why celebrate one Jewish holiday when you can celebrate four?! After a month of observing the holidays of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, the Jewish calendar finally lands on Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, a combined celebration that marks the end of the High Holidays.聽
Beginning five days after Yom Kippur, Sukkot is one of the three major holidays during the Jewish calendar (the other two are Passover and Shavuot). The word 鈥淪ukkot鈥 means 鈥渂ooths鈥 or 鈥渉uts,鈥 and refers to the structures many Jewish families and communities build to represent the temporary dwellings the Israelites lived in after their escape from Egypt.聽
With Yom Kippur approaching, and with the intensity of this week鈥檚 commemoration of the October 7 attacks, I’ve been reflecting on what this holiday really means to me. Growing up, I heard all these daunting things about how I was supposed to act on Yom Kippur: fasting, wearing white clothes, and disconnecting from electronics.
