To debate the issue of “Shylock, Shakespeare, and the Jews: Antisemitism in the Merchant of Venice,” OU Executive Vice President Rabbi Steven Weil participated in a round-table discussion at The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, just a short walk around The Battery from the OU ‘s lower Manhattan offices. The program was presented in conjunction with The Public Theater, which originally staged the Merchant of Venice in 1962 and did so again in 1995 and last summer – with the celebrated actor Al Pacino playing Shylock. The play then moved to Broadway for a limited run, ending in February of this year. Read More

Rabbi Reuven Boshnack, JLIC educator at Brooklyn College, authored "The Sefas Emes Project", a collection of Rabbi Boshnack's Shiurim on the Parsha based on the teachings of the Sefas Emes. It is available at The Sefas Emes Project

A group of student leaders, who are very involved with the JLIC at Princeton, started an exciting initiative. From April 28 - May 1, the first Intercollegiate Aliyah Conference was hosted at Princeton University. The student organizers, along with the JLIC couple on campus, recruited a total of 50 students from 17 East Coast colleges, including Princeton, who participated in the four day conference. Read on ...

With one of the largest Jewish student populations in the country, you would be hard pressed to imagine the anti-Israel and concurrently anti-Semitic nature of the Rutgers University campus. Sadly, over the course of the past two years Rutgers has shifted from a generally peaceful pro-Israel environment to an outright assault on the Jewish State. Peculiarly, the growing hatred toward Israel on campus has not accompanied a large pro-Palestinian movement. Rather a specific trend of trying to delegitimize the lone democracy in the Middle East has emerged. As an anti-Israel speaker proudly said this past semester, “It’s not about Palestinians against Israel; it is about getting the world against Israel.”Read More

Stephen Savitsky and Stanley Weinstein talk JLIC
Perpetuating Orthodox Jewish Life on College Campuses