The crowd in the Performing Arts Center burst into applause after Goldie Jacoby finished her story and thanked the audience for listening. Jacoby had just finished recounting her story of surviving the Holocaust and the struggles that came afterward.
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Rosh Hashanah During a Pandemic: How the SLO Jewish Community Celebrated the New Year, This Year
This year, the Jewish community in SLO and all around the world was forced to find a new way to celebrate Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish new year — amid COVID-19 regulations. “Rosh Hashanah is a very important time in Jewish culture,” architectural engineering senior Eli Greenberg said. “It is a time judgment, reflection and […]
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Letter to the Editor: We should stand together as a greek community
McCarthy argues the greek community needs to work together to be role models on this campus.
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Concerns raised over the Drylongso Collective’s exclusion of funding to clubs with Zionist ideologies in admin demands
The Drylongso Collective released a clarifying statement, explaining the difference between Zionism and Judaism.
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Rabbi Hilel gives students a home away from home
Rabbi Chaim Hilel provides dinners and Jewish education for the both the Jewish and non-Jewish community of San Luis Obispo.
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Jewish Unity Fair serves hungry students
From shawarmas to falafels, the Jewish Unity Fair had it all. These are typical Middle Eastern foods, said Rabbi Chaim Hilel, who established Chabad of SLO. “Shawarma is either lamb, turkey or chicken, slow roasted over a spit with Middle Eastern spices and carved to perfection,” Hilel said. “Falafel is actually a vegetarian mix of […]
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Breaking down the Master Plan, part seven: More diversity
Appealing to different ethnic and people groups through new food options and weekend and evening activities.
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Presentation ignites backlash from Jewish community
Controversy surrounds a university-sponsored speaker slated to present this evening in Chumash auditorium on the Israel-Palestine conflict and its effect on the Middle East. Ilan Pappe, an Israeli-born historian, plans to speak tonight about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Pappe raised controversy in the past from his unpopular political views against the state of Israel and its […]
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Holocaust Remembrance day offers opportunity for reflection
Between 1939 and 1945, six million Jews were brutally murdered in Europe. Their crime? Being Jewish.
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Ditch the liquor store, put yeast to work
What do beer, Kombucha and Amish friendship bread all have in common? Besides the fact that they all taste delicious, they are all fermented foods and beverages you can make.
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Eating competitions not taken lightly
A five pound burrito, 50 hot dogs and hot wings so spicy you have to sign a waver to eat them — sounds like enough food to feed an army.