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By Yael Steinberg

Special guest Speakers Gladys Amaning and Janette Hirschman visited University of California Irvine and “Teachers for Tomorrow, ” on the California tour of the film Kumasi Haifa.

By: Elliot Malin

Elliot Malin is a Hasbara Fellow, from the class of winter 2011.  He was recently elected Vice President of the Associated Students at the University of Nevada, Reno.

By: Daniel Cohen

Hasbara Fellowships Managing Director Alan Levine spoke on a panel to the Latino-Jewish Student Coalition, a group founded by Hasbara Fellow Tracy Frydberg. The coalition partnered with the Latino Leadership Coalition on campus to host a panel discussion at UT's Multicultural Engagement Center.

At UCSB, where divestment from Israel has been proposed, students from both sides of the divestment debate showed up to a pro-peace info session last night.

By: Daniel Cohen

A little over a year ago at Kalamazoo, MI, you’d be hard pressed to find any Israel-related activity: good or bad.  Western Michigan University, a decent-sized Midwestern school with over 25,000 students and over 300 registered student organizations, seemingly was totally apathetic towards Israel and the Middle East in general.  This didn’t seem like it would change anytime soon, either – the Hillel was entirely student-run and consisted mostly of a small group of friends, and the entire campus seemed to fly under the radar of major Jewish organizations.  Also, much of the school year was cold.

If you visited Kalamazoo then and now, you might be shocked.

By: Ilana Levinson

In the past few years, Israel Peace Week (IPW) has become a highlighted Israel activity at many campuses. This year’s events, currently underway at more than 50 campuses across North America, are serving as the catalyst for launching new Israel groups at two schools.

Activists at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and Boston College (BC), where previously there had been minimal Israel programming, have seized on IPW as a high-profile vehicle for spreading pro-Israel messages and gaining supporters.

BY: Hashem Hamdy

This past week, Hasbara Fellowships Canadian Regional Coordinator, Hashem Hamdy, had the opportunity to visit McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, just outside of Toronto, during Israel Peace Week.

 

By Galia Nurko

Last weekend, several New Jersey universities participated in an exciting conference titled the “Talk Israel Retreat.” In co-sponsorship with the Jewish Federation Community Relations Committee of Greater MetroWest, Rutgers Hillel, The Legow Family Israel Program Center (IPC), and Hasbara Fellowships over 60 students participated in an intensive two day conference learning Israeli history,  Israel advocacy skills, and about unique experiences pro-Israel students have faced on campus.

By: Daniel Cohen

What if I told you, the pro-Israel student advocate, that Israel had a "secret weapon".  I'm not talking about Dimona - here's what this secret weapon does:

*Reaches out and engages with countless people who are uninformed or apathetic towards Israel and the Middle East conflict,

*Presents a uniformly positive view of Israel to these people, and

*Is fun!!

Well, the good news is this secret weapon exists - and it's not even close to being a secret.  Israeli culture has been making waves on campus lately, and it's best you grab on.

By Yael Steinberg

Students at Stanford pulled out all the stops to bring attention to the startup nation, Israel!

BY: Hashem Hamdy

If you were to pull out a map of Canada and try to point to a centre of the country, you'd probably find your finger on Winnipeg, Manitoba, home to the University of Manitoba and Hasbara Fellow Ilana Elbaze.

Note: The following article, featuring Fellow Melanie Goldberg, was originally published in the NY Daily News.

So much for academic freedom at Brooklyn College.

There was no place at an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic campus program for four students who attempted to attend with the goal of expressing contrary views.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/shame-campus-article-1.1259255#ixzz2Kd935h16

By: Molly Tobin

With the Spring Semester underway, students throughout New England are enthusiastically planning events for the coming months.  At Boston College there is a resurgence of pro-Israel energy as Hasbara Fellows have recently worked to reestablish their pro-Israel group, Eagles for Israel.

By: Daniel Cohen

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

That saying certainly applies to pro-Israel students in the Midwest.  When temperatures reached frigid negative degrees last week, students at several campuses braved the elements and went out to table for their Israel group, or the “I Vote Israel” campaign.