Daily Podcasts Video Research

‘Dialogue’ isn’t enough to fix what ails campuses. Jewish students like us need more.

JL;DR SUMMARY Jewish college students Ari and Maya, attending Harvard and McGill respectively, describe the challenges of increased campus polarization, particularly after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »

Tags

Jewish TraditionsJewish EthicsJewish StudentsDialogueJewish LearningPluralismCommunity BuildingCampus PolarizationRelationship BuildingCampus Commons

Places mentioned

Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
"As upperclassmen, Ari at Harvard and Maya at McGill, we have watched peers feel trapped between two extremes."
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"As upperclassmen, Ari at Harvard and Maya at McGill, we have watched peers feel trapped between two extremes."
New York, United States
"wrote an op-ed in the New York Times describing her colleges efforts to offer courses and programs on civil discourse and dialogue."
Canada
"The experience of being in a mixed group of Jewish students from across North America politically and religiously was inspiring and enlivening, creating a trusting community with peers who, back on our college campuses, circulate in different spheres from ours."

Support this source

This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 63624
Cairo Source ID 42
Retrieved 2025-10-12 18:00:22 UTC
Curated 2025-10-12 19:00:26 UTC