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Campus

Eye on the Y: BYU funds multi-sensory stimulation room for special education in Jerusalem, BYU Museum of Art offers family home evening activities every Monday

Brooke Christensen
By Brooke Christensen
October 05, 2024 01:09 PM
BYU funds multi-sensory stimulation room for special education in Jerusalem
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Religion

BYU Jerusalem students celebrate Holy Week in Jerusalem

By Derek VanBuskirk
April 10, 2023 12:00 AM
Students at the BYU Jerusalem Center worked to follow the teachings ofElder Gary E. Stevensonby striving 'toward a more Christ-centered Easter.'
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Campus News

 BYU Jerusalem Center alumni revisit the Holy Land—'it felt like coming home'

By Trevor Myers
September 28, 2022 12:00 AM
A select group of Jerusalem Center alumni were able to revisit familiar sites and stay in the Jerusalem Center once more on a trip organized and planned by volunteers from the BYU Jerusalem Center Alumni Sept. 4-15.
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Featured

BYU Jerusalem Center highlights history of peace, conflict

By Decker Westenburg
June 02, 2021 12:00 AM
In 1979, aboard a Greek ship called the Stella Solaris, President Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Elder Howard W. Hunter of the Quorum of the Twelve announced to a small group of students that Brigham Young University would build a permanent educational and religious complex in Jerusalem. The center would later be known as the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies.
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Devotionals and Forums

BYU devotional address links BYU to Jerusalem

By Anne-Greyson Long
October 04, 2016 12:00 AM
David A. Whitchurch, professor of ancient scripture, spoke on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, about the LDS Church's historic and current presence in Jerusalem. He said students should continue to pray for the Holy Land. (Ryan Turner)
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World

Jerusalem Center students help refugees while studying abroad

By Alicia Matsuura
September 12, 2016 12:00 AM
BYU students at the Jerusalem Center during Winter 2016 assembled hygiene kits for refugees while studying abroad. (TJ Thomas)
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Life

5 favorite study abroad destinations for students

By Joshua Faber
July 10, 2015 12:00 AM
University study abroad programs have increased in popularity. Students who study abroad now account for nine percent of all university undergraduate students nationwide, according to data from the Institute of International Education.
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Campus Events

Breaking stereotypes: Jerusalem

By Veronica Destro
February 12, 2014 12:00 AM
Editor's Note: This piece is part of a series exploring how BYU students break stereotypes about foreign cities on BYU study abroad programs. A story last week covered London.
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Campus

A frigid welcome to the Jerusalem Center

By Lucy Schouten
January 24, 2013 12:00 AM
Camels. Semitic languages. Shawarma. Falafel. And snow? BYU students who plan to spend a semester at the Jerusalem Center are ready for new experiences, but the students who arrived two weeks ago can relate to their Utah peers. They, too, experienced unusually intense winter weather.
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Campus Events

BYU Jerusalem Center Relief Society president offers counsel for trials in conflict

By Lucy Schouten
January 01, 1970 12:00 AM
Jerusalem's former Relief Society president used her experiences as a Palestinian Christian and the West Bank's only Mormon convert to counsel BYU Arabic students about enduring trials Feb. 15.
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