Get To Meet Us This Friday Night

This upcoming Friday night, Beach Hillel will be holding Friday night dinner at the Board President’s house and students will have the opportunity to meet me, Rabbi Drew – the new rabbi on campus, as well as my wife, Rachel Kaplan, the new executive director of Beach Hillel. We hope to see you there.

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Intifada Continues at UCI

The USA campus with an active Jihad / Intifada against Israel, Jews, Western-style democracy continues. This teaser-trailer was just released. There are some similarities to the style of the Jihad Films on YouTube that promote terror and violence. What was just one week is now over two weeks long. The Jewish community in Irvine, the [...]

Kalover Rebbe Visists College Students

This article appeared in the GW Hatchett

Media Credit: Michelle Rattinger/Hatchet photographer
Senior Eric Bernstein meets with the Kalover Rebbe at Hillel on Wednesday morning. The rebbe, a religious leader from New York, is the head of the Kalov Hasidic Jewish sect and traveled to campus to meet with students.

Junior Josh Abrams stands over a table in [...]

Boycott of Israel fails to pass at CSU Long Beach and may be illegal

Is there a nationwide boycott effort underway on college campuses? Our experience at CSU Long Beach would seem to say, “yes.” And it may be illegal
On March 18th, Zo Farooqui, an assimilated Muslim student senator (whose Facebook page features the quote “Kiss French. Wear Italian. Drive German. Drink Russian.”) submitted a sophisticated, albeit totally false [...]

Boycott of Israel proposed by Student Senator at CSULB

This first attempt at getting the Student Senate to boycott Israel was put forward by  a member of the Muslim Student Association.
Title: Resolution in Support of the Call for the Immediate End to the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza and a Boycott of Goods and Services that Maintain Business Relations with Israel
Sponsored by: Senator [...]

New phrase heard on campuses: “Die Jew — get the hell off campus.”

Cops quell anti-Israel attack at York U By Ron Csillag · February 13, 2009 TORONTO (JTA) –
Toronto police quelled tensions between Jews and anti-Israel activists at the campus of one of Canada’s largest universities for the second time in two weeks. Hillel@York, the on-campus club for Jewish students at Toronto’s York University, [...]

High Holidays with JSS and Beach Hillel

For the fifth year in a row – JSS & Beach Hillel will be providing free High Holiday services for Jewish students from Orange County and Long Beach.
Rabbi Yonah has created a custom service and prayer book for Jewish students who are short on time. A beautiful Shofar Service, a delish kiddish, and a great [...]

Bring in Shabbat and Keep out Cults

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Jewish students at summer festivals are vulnerable to cults and missionaries. For the third summer JSS is doing something to help.
This weekend we are co-sponsoring Shabbat Outreach at annual counter-culture events, where missionaries, cults, and others that prey on uninformed and vulnerable Jews. JSS is sending a Rabbi and [...]

Matisyahu Shabbat Tent at Langerado

Matisyahu, world reggae superstar, was one of the headline performers at this year’s Langerado Music Festival. In order to observe Shabbat – and perform Saturday night — Matisyahu arranged for Shabbat to be held at the festival itself!
Thanks to support from sponsors birthright israel Next, the Shabbat program brought together Matisyahu and his wife [...]