Global Student Voices

For over four decades, the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS) has created something epic: SummerU, a weeklong retreat that brings Jewish students and young professionals to stunning European destinations for geopolitical and skills-building workshops, board elections, and evening celebrations of Jewish life.

Surrounded by members of the French and American militaries saluting flags whipping in the wind, World War II veterans overlooking the beaches they stormed 81 years ago, and civil society leaders with their hands over their hearts, we, American & French Jewish students and young professionals, listened to the sole bugler play “Taps.”

One of the most consequential debates shaping Israel today centers on Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) participation in the IDF and its impact on Israeli society. This webinar provides college and graduate students with essential context and clarity on this pivotal issue.

I thought I knew what to expect when I visited Salt Lake City as part of American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Interreligious Mission to meet with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

As a Jewish leader, I have participated in many different leadership development programs, from intimate 35-person weekend retreats, to an 800+ person conference in DC featuring prominent figures like former Prime Minister Bennett.

The Druze community–one of Israel's most distinctive and least understood minorities–has been at the center of recent headlines amid cross-border tensions and regional upheaval.

When I awoke on the third day of my internship with American Jewish Committee (AJC), my excitement for my first hybrid workday came to an abrupt halt when I read the news that Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were murdered after leaving an AJC ACCESS event. As a DC native who grew up confronting the deeply ingrained antisemitism in my independent school and witnessing the increase in antisemitic incidents after October 7, I knew antisemitism was raging through my city. I was immediately overwhelmed by two horrifying questions: How could this happen at an event I was so warmly invited to? And why am I not the slightest bit surprised that a hate-fueled murder claimed two young Jewish lives?

As American Jewish college students head back to their campuses this fall, we talk to three leaders on AJC's Campus Global Board about how antisemitism before and after the October 7 Hamas terror attacks revealed their resilience and ignited the activist inside each of them.

Like many other Jewish students on college campuses, I became a target after October 7th. At the small liberal arts college I once loved, I lost nearly all of my friends, the academic path I had planned, and my sense of safety.

As members of AJC’s Campus Global Board (CGB), an inclusive advisory board for AJC on student-related issues, we were honored to represent American Jewish Committee (AJC) at the annual World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) Congress, which took place in Berlin, Germany, from December 28, 2024, to January 2, 2025.

Two Jewish student leaders at Binghamton University, Seth Schlank and Eytan Saenger speak on their experiences amidst rising antisemitism on college campuses in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre in Israel by Hamas and the show of solidarity with hostage Omer Neutra, a friend of many, who deferred acceptance to Binghamton before spending a gap year in Israel and enlisting in the IDF.