http://www.chabad.edu/386542 Campus and University News from Chabad on Campus Copyright 2009, all rights reserved. Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EST Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=936830 A community Hebrew school in Cambridge, England, celebrated the completion of its first academic year with a graduation ceremony for its student body of close to 30 students between the ages of 2 and 12. Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=931479 Popularly referred to as a “pen of the soul,” a nigun is a typically wordless melody intended to express and stir one’s spiritual essence. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=927856 In the United Kingdom, government officials and private individuals have for months been grappling with a rise in anti-Jewish sentiment that has refused to go away. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=927855 Taglit-Birthright Israel and Mayanot brought 35 aspiring American scientists and technological entrepreneurs to the Holy Land for a focused 10-day tour. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=923769 One year after the untimely passing of a noted 28-year-old graduate student, Oxford University’s Chabad Society inaugurated its Isaac Meyers Memorial Lecture in Jewish Classics with an address on the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=921144 A group of 40 U.S. college students representing more than 30 campuses began a three-week immersion program this week to supplement the experiences they had touring Israel on free Taglit-Birthright Israel trips. Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=912835 Whether at summer school or a lengthened spring term, Jewish students at hundreds of universities around the globe gathered for an all-night study session. Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=905629 Thousands of young Jewish adults from North America are in the Holy Land this week taking advantage of an opportunity never afforded them when they were younger. Mon, 25 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=905075 After a grassroots campaign by Jewish students, people wishing to have a snack of the kosher variety can choose from a selection of sandwiches at three campus locations. Sun, 24 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=905065 Renowned Jewish scholar Rabbi Adin Even Yisroel Steinsaltz visited Oxford University’s Chabad Society this week to deliver a lecture in honor of Sir Isaiah Berlin, considered by many to be one of the most prominent liberal thinkers of the 20th century. Sun, 24 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=903004 Edith Einhorn couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Her granddaughter would be doing the unthinkable: Making a Friday night meal without meat, or eggs, or any animal product of any kind. Thu, 21 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=902250 A group of American college students and recent graduates earned the distinction of being among the first people in the world to celebrate this year’s completion of the study of the Mishneh Torah, the foundational Jewish law code authored by medieval sage and philosopher Moses Maimonides. Wed, 20 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=896604 As he takes his seat Monday on the faculty dais at Radio City Music Hall, Rabbi Simcha Weinstein will be looking back at a seminal year for Jewish students at Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Pratt Institute, and a coming year he says will be historic for the city’s art community. Mon, 18 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=893431 With college seniors facing one of the worst job markets in recent memory and downsized professionals scrambling to plan their futures, yeshivas and seminaries have seen their applications soar. Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=891679 Students at two schools brought together by tragedy reflected on the loss of a classmate Friday afternoon by lighting candles, reciting Psalms and making positive resolutions in her memory. Sun, 10 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=890667 After two harrowing days of lockdowns, Wesleyan University reopened late Thursday night following the surrender to police of a man suspected of murdering College of Letters junior Johanna Justin-Jinich. Fri, 8 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=890666 Wesleyan University students spent Thursday locked in their dormitories, while synagogues throughout Connecticut were placed on heightened alert after law enforcement authorities investigating a classmate’s murder announced that the prime suspect could be targeting the campus and its Jewish community. Fri, 8 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=889576 Students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mourned the sudden passing of Joshua Jared Hardy, a junior finance major who took a lead in his fraternity’s social action initiatives. Thu, 7 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=888812 Among the more than 6,500 people who flocked to Washington, D.C., this week to attend the annual Policy Conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee were more than 1,000 college students from some 325 campuses. Wed, 6 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=887698 Renegade documentary filmmaker Ramin Farahani, whose latest film is banned in his home country of Iran, sat down with students at Oxford University’s Chabad-Lubavitch center. Tue, 5 May 2009 12:00:00 EST