Articles tagged: Jewish Community

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One year after Oct. 7, Georgetown’s Jewish community reflects and remembers in memorial services

On Oct. 7, 2023, Talia Zamir (CAS ’26) scrambled to contact her family as she watched the fallout of Hamas’ attack on Israel while in D.C. Zamir is Israeli-American and... Read more

By and October 8, 2024

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Jewish students protest House resolution equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism

On Tuesday Dec. 5, Jewish university students organized a rally and press conference in protest of a Congressional hearing on antisemitism.

By , and December 10, 2023

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Torah desecration at GW triggers wave of support for Jewish community

After intruders desecrated a Torah at Tau Kappa Epsilon house (TKE) at George Washington University, student and faculty responses there and at Georgetown University signaled strong support for the Jewish... Read more

By and November 14, 2021

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Carrying On: One Foot in the Promised Land

"There will probably never be a day when I wake up, look in the mirror, and see the face of a Jew or a non-Jew. The face will always be just a little bit of both, somewhere in between."

By September 26, 2020

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GUSA senate passes resolutions in support of Jewish community, non-tenured faculty leave

The GUSA senate unanimously passed resolutions in support of Georgetown’s Jewish community and the extension of paid family leave to full-time, non-tenure-line faculty at their meeting on Nov 4. The... Read more

By November 7, 2018