After a tense day of protests, counterprotests and increased university police presence on the University of Chicago’s Main Quadrangle, the sun began to fade Friday evening and the Jewish holy day of Sabbath began. Within the encampment established by the University of Chicago United for Palestine coalition, about 50 Jewish students and faculty and community members sat down on a blue tarp .
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After a tense day of protests, counterprotests and increased university police presence on the University of Chicago’s Main Quadrangle, the sun began to fade Friday evening and the Jewish holy day of Sabbath began. Within the encampment established by the University of Chicago United for Palestine coalition, about 50 Jewish students and faculty and community members sat down on a blue tarp .
This year’s Chanukah arrived right at the end of finals week, but that didn’t stop UChicago’s Jewish community from coming together to celebrate. Rabbi Yossi Brackman of Rohr Chabad at UChicago, one of the university’s Jewish religious-cultural centers, spent the days before Chanukah handing out menorah kits to students across campus. On the first.