Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
The first time I got Jew-outed in Spain, I stood in a group of my fellow American exchange students outside our medieval Christian art class. It was the beginning of my semester abroad, back when I could only understand 40% of any given lecture and I spent my days struggling alongside Spaniards who had been…
It was a warm Wednesday in the fall of my first year at Brown University. As I meandered through the main green, a child with with tzitzit poking out of the bottom of his shirt walked up to me and asked, “Are you Jewish? Would you like to say a prayer or come to dinner?”…
Being a Jewish student at Western Kentucky University (WKU) feels like attending college in a ghost town. There are no hallmarks of Jewish collegiate life here. No Hillel, no Jewish student group, not even a synagogue in Bowling Green, the town surrounding campus. It’s an experience of alienation, but ironically also the basis for connection….
Last month, my Senator, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, reintroduced an updated version of a 2016 bill known as the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (ASAA). On its face, this legislation purports to protect Jewish college students like me. In fact, the ASAA establishes an official definition of anti-Semitism that includes criticism of Israel. If passed, this bill will…