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A Civil Society and the Controversies Within It
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/03/25/hillel There’s nothing like a conversation on “fostering a more civil society” during which a renegade audience member commandeers the microphone. At a summit focused on“Imagining a More Civil Society: The University and the Jewish Community,” Monday’s opening forum was not just a discussion of, but also a demonstration of, a summit theme: the challenge…

Hillel Students Protest Irvine Chancellor
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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107665.html Jewish students protested the planned participation of the University of California, Irvine chancellor at a Hillel conference. In a letter sent last Thursday to Hillel President Wayne Firestone, 41 current and former students objected to the appearance of Michael Drake at The Summit, which is being held Monday to Wednesday in Washington. Drake is…

Teachers’ Union ‘Not Pushing for Boycott’
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http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s18&SecId=18&AId=58884&ATypeId=1 Jewish leaders have resisted criticising Britain’s main teachers’ union over a motion set down for its annual conference that seeks to strengthen its ties with Palestine. A report in The Guardian last Thursday claimed that the National Union of Teachers would be asked to buy an educational pack from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign “to…

Anti-Israel Resolution Bumped at Teachers’ Meet
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http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14270&Itemid=86 TORONTO – A resolution that called on Ontario Catholic teachers to discuss a boycott of Israel and suggested that Israel practises apartheid failed to make it to the floor at the group’s annual general meeting last week. The resolution, presented by the Toronto secondary unit of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA), was…

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