Voices & Opinion

This teaching was delivered at Elon’s Kol Nidrei Service for Yom Kippur on Sept 20, 2026. Yom Kippur is a day of repentance and return. It is a day for the Jewish community to consider its actions of the past year and commit to living better in the year to come. This sermon explores the power of speech and how we can choose to use it for good.

This teaching was delivered at Elon’s Rosh Hashanah Seder Service on Sept. 11, 2026. It explores the intersection of memory and shofar, core themes of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. This year, Rosh Hashanah coincides with the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001.

David Bockino, professor of sport management, recently wrote an opinion piece on sports gambling for The Washington Post. Read an excerpt from the piece below.

Jewish Life at Elon welcomed the incoming class of 2030 with a shabbat dinner and Jewish activity fair. Rabbi Maor Greene delivered a teaching on how the Jewish community at Elon supports one another. Representatives from Hillel, Chabad, AEPi, AEPhi and Hebrew Club also attended the event.

A lineup of nationally recognized public intellectuals, military heroes, sports figures and activists will share their stories with campus audiences in a series exploring "Bold Leadership."

In this editorial, distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Greg Hlavaty, associate teaching professor of English, acknowledges the need for hopeful climate action and nature's power for renewal. It appeared in the Greensboro News & Record, The Daily Reflector and The Winston-Salem Journal.

In this column distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Professor of Biology and T.E. Powell Professor Jr., Dave Gammon discusses the politics of climate change on the heels of recent action by the EPA. This column was published in The Daily Reflector, The Times News, The Daily Advance and the Rocky Mount Telegram.

Comments made by President Connie Ledoux Book during a panel at the American Council on Education’s annual conference were recently highlighted by Higher Ed Dive.

In this column distributed through the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Professor of English Rosemary Haskell explores the enduring power of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," as a new adaptation of the classic hits theaters. This column was published in the Greensboro News & Record and the Winston-Salem Journal.

After activist John Davidson, who lives with Tourette syndrome, involuntarily shouted a racial slur at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo during the BAFTA film awards, Rena Zito, associate professor of sociology, explains the stigma behind the condition in a piece for The Conversation.