Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
When I first began my college search, or perhaps it’s better to say when my mother started suggestively leaving college pamphlets on my desk, I refused to acknowledge a life after high school. The prospect of recreating myself and re-establishing my Jewish identity in a foreign environment frightened me enormously, but I needn’t have worried….
Those readers who have been following the daf yomi (“Daily Page” – a popular global Talmud study initiative) will have been having a good time recently. The program is currently working on the middle of Tractate Avodah Zarah, which deals with relationships between Jews and non-Jews generally, but has a lot of other good stuff…
Gary Shteyngart’s third novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” depicts a future that is superficial, anti-literate and dystopian. In other words, our lives in 20 years.
Haaretz reported today that in the best example of “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” one in three Spaniards is anti-Semitic. Jeff Goldberg insightfully points out that one in five Spaniards is actually of Jewish descent. [Jeff Goldberg] But while they may be hating on us in Madrid, there’s nothing but…
What do a fictional British agent and Jewish men have in common? Two words: androgenic hair. For non-science majors, and those who never searched “body hair” on Wikipedia, androgenic hair is a fancy word for the hair that develops during and after puberty. If, after the preceding lines, you are scared to read on, rest…
It’s been just a week since I returned from a Hillel Leadership Retreat with a sore back, campfire-smoke in my hair, and a beaded bracelet (well, a piece of string with four beads) on my wrist. But it feels like it’s been a lot longer than that–those of you in college realize the time warp…