The past academic year has been particularly challenging for Jewish students on college campuses, marked by increasing threats, harassment, and violence during nationwide campus protests and encampments.
At AJC Global Forum 2023, Charlotte Aaron, Milton Zerman, and Hannah Krutiansky, leaders of the Jewish Law Students Association at the UC Berkeley School of Law, received the AJC Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy.
Lily Cohen, a student at Northwestern University, delivered remarks to the AJC Global Forum 2023 audience thanking American Jewish Committee for the AJC Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy, and for its ongoing support.
Watch "The View from Campus," an AJC Virtual Global Forum conversation about Jewish student leadership with Julia Jassey, CEO of Jewish on Campus, and University of Chicago ‘23 and Talia Rosenberg University of Pennsylvania ‘21, moderated by Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman, AJC Director of the Alexander Young Leadership Department.
Student government should be a platform to improve campus life, and plan fulfilling programs for one’s peers. So why does it seem like many student governments have become little more than a platform for constant vilification of Israel?