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Zev Hurwitz

Zev Hurwitz is the director of synagogue and rabbinic outreach for the Jewish Federation Los Angeles.

Short of a lottery win, there wasn’t a way for us to keep him in a Jewish day school while servicing his behavioral and emotional needs.
It is imperative that university administrators seize the opportunity for reform before anti-Semitic incidents morph into physical violence.
Even as they are busy impeaching Jewish students on nonsense charges, the anti-Israel crowd is also working hard to prevent schools from adopting the IHRA definition as an educational tool.
The pandemic provides some quiet time for student leaders to take stock of their communities and work to grow Jewish community engagement in creative new ways.
Such activists are relentless, open to shifting their strategy to use campuses to try to punish Israel while vilifying Jewish students in pursuit of their cause.