Jewish Student Union

Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorates a key moment of Jewish resistance against the Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 

Passover — or pesach in Hebrew — celebrates the Israelites’ exodus from slavery in ancient Egypt to their new homeland in Israel. The Jewish holiday began the evening of April 5 and concluded April 13, a day which marked the end of strict kosher for many practicing Jews.

Wednesday’s new resolutions marked a total of seven bills in the past three weeks focused on student safety and wellness. They included a bill that would create a commission on mental health and another to increase protection related to on-campus political demonstrations.

Since Wednesday, multiple students and faculty have reported the presence of posters throughout campus that were determined by UC Berkeley administration to contain anti-Semitic rhetoric.

When Café 3 opened its doors last week, Cal Dining unveiled a new menu and food station designed to accommodate Kosher, halal and vegetarian diets. Through food, the campus and Cal Dining hope to satisfy the campus’s hunger for inclusivity and sustainability.

At least five hate-speech posters — with at least two naming six current and former UC Berkeley students for their involvement in either the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement or Students for Justice in Palestine — were found plastered at various sites around campus Monday.

Campuswide printers were hacked Friday and Saturday and programmed to print copies of anti-Semitic and white supremacist fliers, according to campus graduate student Geert de Vreede.

The UC Board of Regents will convene Wednesday and Thursday to vote on a new retirement plan and a newly revised intolerance policy for the UC system and to discuss updates on mental health resources on UC campuses.

After months of deliberation, the UC Board of Regents released a report of its revised statement of Principles Against Intolerance on Tuesday, which now expressly condemns anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.