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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Sainati: The absence of Palestine in my Jewish experience

October 19, 2017

I was raised a reform Jew in a Northern Virginia congregation which didn’t have the largest Jewish population, but enough to make up a decent-sized community. I also participated in a regional youth...

Visiting Prof. Ruth Gavison speaks in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on Thursday. Gavison lectured about the Jewish and democratic aspects of Israel.

Visiting professor talks Zionism, democracy

May 18, 2017

Israel can be both a Jewish and democratic state, visiting Prof. Ruth Gavison said during an event Thursday. Gavison delivered the annual Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization,...

Letter to the Editor: ‘Underdog’ narrative is important, but so is truth

May 16, 2017

On May 15, 2017, Northwestern’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine invited a woman charged with complicity in the bombing of a supermarket and the murder of two Israeli students to speak for...

Letter to the Editor: Muslims can think for themselves

February 6, 2017

The following letter is written in response to the Assistant Dean of Weinberg Mark Sheldon’s letter, revealingly titled “The walkout’s purpose was derailed by anti-Israel sentiment.” This title...

Members of the Northwestern community join a demonstration at the Multicultural Center in opposition to President Trump’s travel ban. One of the signs hanging on the center read, “If you support Israeli apartheid you support a Muslim ban.”

Letter to the Editor: The walkout’s purpose was derailed by anti-Israel sentiment

February 2, 2017

I am an American Jew who is critical of Israel and who also does not think criticism of Israel equates automatically with anti-Semitism. However, I was deeply disappointed at the turn that the #NoMuslimBanNU...

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