Hillel

On May 18, the UC Board of Regents reconvened for its second and third board meetings of the week, alongside a joint meeting from the academic and student affairs committee and finance and capital strategies committee.

While many Jewish students think of Berkeley Hillel as a welcoming community space, some have expressed discontent with how it represents their community.

It’s true that some aspects of cultural or ethnic identity are integral to who you are. I don’t think I would be wholly me if I weren’t Jewish. But I can reference my Judaism and have that serve as one of my key characteristics without making that my sole identifier.

If religion is the opium of the masses, as Karl Marx famously suggested, I’m clearly going to the wrong metaphorical drug dealer.

Given his donor’s potential violation of Federal Tax Law in funding his student government campaign and his complete lack of transparency on the issue it is clear that Avi Oved does not uphold the values one would expect from a student leader. Therefore to preserve these values of student government in the UC system, we respectively call upon Avi Oved to immediately withdraw himself from the student regent nomination process.

Rafi Lurie knows something about small beginnings. From kindergarten through twelfth grade, Lurie, the Student Action presidential candidate, attended the same small school, graduating as part of a class of of just 47 students.