Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Christmas! ’Tis the season, and at our house Santa is an equal opportunity present provider. Hadn’t you heard? Santa Claus? Formerly Shlomo Clausstein, total Heeb. I know we’re not the only Jewish family to celebrate Christmas in addition to Hanukkah. I’m sure there are plenty of us out there. Some might call it assimilation. I…
I thought I would take a moment to engage in some shameless self-promotion. If you read my article posted last week, you’ll know that I am researching a group called Boulder Action for Soviet Jewry. As Soviet Union was unraveling, this group advocated for the rights of Soviet Jews to emigrate and worked tirelessly to…
Hey y’all, Today is World AIDS Day. Get tested. Take a friend. Take two friends. No excuses. Get active. Get educated. Use protection, always. HIV/AIDS hasn’t gone away and it won’t unless we all work together. That is all.
It may be time for San Francisco’s mohels to, ahem, cut and run from the City by the Bay. I’ve been reading the various, uh, clips and snippets on the proposed circumcision ban and criminalization and I am outraged! (not really) OK, silly puns aside (promise, I fulfilled my prurient adolescent urges), I am feeling…
Uproar abounds (again) as Glenn Beck says something sensational and reckless. Everybody and their bubbe are condemning Beck today, with the appropriate amount of moral indignation and outrage. Could it be true?! Is Glenn Beck an … (whispers) anti-Semite? Let’s be clear. Glenn Beck is not a journalist. Glenn Beck is not a professor or…
The Dems may be licking their wounds after Tuesday, but the Jews (with the exception of Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold and a few others) fared very well during the midterm elections. Senator Barbara Boxer trounced challenger and Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in California and Chuck Schumer overwhelmingly reclaimed his Senate seat in New York. Feingold…
A friend of mine coaches soccer for tween boys in Boulder. One day during practice, she noticed one of the boys had a water bottle with the inscription “Hebrew High.” “Wait, are you Jewish?” my friend asked (she’s not a Jew). The boy responded in the affirmative. My friend proceeds to exclaim: “That’s so cool!”…
Yesterday, Jenny Merkin posted Max Blumenthal’s recent video of mostly young Jewish internationals in Jerusalem swearing allegiance to the State of Israel via a loyalty oath crafted by Blumenthal in the spirit of the Führereid, you know that oath the Nazi Wehrmacht swore to ze Führer. Astonishingly, most of Blumenthal’s subjects proudly swore the oath…
“I swear to respect the laws of the United States as a white and democratic state.” Or, how about: “I swear to respect the laws of the United States as a Christian and democratic state.” Maybe this one? “I swear to respect the laws of the United States as a male and democratic state.” Or…
It was the Jewiest episode of Glee yet! Rewind. Glee is one of the only television shows I watch on a regular basis. Don’t judge. It’s amazing. This week’s episode elevated studly muskeljuden Noah “Puck” Puckerman to the top of my list of Jewish heroes and sealed diva Rachel Berry, AKA Lea Michele, as the…
I have a confession to make. Deep breath. Last Saturday was my very first experience with Hillel at the University of Colorado at Boulder. And it was … disappointing. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Why, pray tell, did I wait until the fifth Yom Kippur of my undergraduate career to check out the main…
Why do the Jews hate Park51 (the so-called “ground-zero mosque” to be built on the shallow grave of the ever-mourned Park Place Burlington Coat Factory in lower Manhattan, two blocks from the site of 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center)? Abe Foxman, Holocaust survivor and the world’s leading crusader against anti-Semitism, told Sufi Imam…