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Hillel Buechler


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Discern between perception and truth

"FAKE! This is NOT an Israeli soldier!" If you were on Facebook last Wednesday and have a significant number of Jewish "friends," then you may have seen those red words glossed on a photo of a soldier-type individual pointing a gun at a child.


Nationalism at Brandeis and in Israel

When emails have to be sent repeatedly in order to encourage students to do something, it's usually because the students aren't already doing the something in question. So those emails imploring students to attend soccer games two weeks ago probably had something to do with a lack of student attendance at soccer games, or even university sporting events in general. But I think that indifferent attitude extends beyond University athletics to the University in general.


After delay, Union posts filled

Students were elected to fill three seats on the Student Judiciary, as well as three seats in the Student Union Senate and the post of senior representative to the Alumni Association in yesterday's Union elections, according to an email to the Justice from Union Secretary Todd Kirkland '13. With the election of three new justices, the judiciary's five seats will now be filled.


Talks between dining workers and Aramark have stalled

Correction appended Contract negotiations between Aramark and Dining Services workers have stalled due to a disagreement over health insurance coverage, according to Dana Simon, the organizing director of Unite HERE Local 26, the union that represents the roughly 125 unionized Dining Services workers. In an interview with the Justice, Simon said, "The biggest problem for the food and services workers throughout the summer and right now is that Aramark wants to ? diminish the health insurance benefits to the workers." Last May, Aramark and Dining Services workers began formal negotiations to establish a new 5-year contract before the old one expired on June 30.


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