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A year into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish college students struggle to find a shared home on campus
Since Adam Jaffe arrived in Evanston three years ago, Northwestern University Hillel has been the college senior’s home away from home. “It’s been always the place that, when I need to get out of the house, when I need to go for a walk, when I need to be with people and find community, that I go to,” said Jaffe, as he sat in a quiet space on the second floor of Northwestern Hillel, surrounded by picture windows with views onto a rainy day. “It really does feel like a home here at Northwestern.”
Chicago-area universities impose more restrictive protest guidelines; advocates and students push back
When Chicago-area college students returned to campus this fall, they were greeted with more than just new lectures, readings and tests. Many local universities welcomed students back with drastically revised guidelines around protest and political speech. In the wake of a wave of mass student demonstrations against the war in Gaza earlier this year, dozens of universities across the United ...
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