Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
My childhood Jewish identity revolved around two main things. One was the synagogue. I was either begrudgingly sitting through services, or devising new ways to get out of them without arousing my Mom’s suspicion. The other was Hebrew school, which I was coerced into attending on Saturday mornings while my non-Jewish friends were sleeping in….
A week ago, Professor Alan Dershowitz came to Vancouver for an event sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver. I was in attendance, along with a host of Hillel students from the Vancouver area and other members of the Vancouver Jewish community. This was my second time hearing Dershowitz speak, and once again, I…
The AEPi fraternity house at the University of Washington is the scene for a new musical written and produced by Jewish college students from Seattle. Jacob Bloom and Leeran Raphaely, second year students at UW, came up with the idea and co-wrote the script. Their respective talents complement each other. Raphaely has been playing piano…
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…
Looking at a map of the United States, one notices a clustering of Jewish populations at the corners. The well-known nucleus is New York City. But Jewish settlement extends throughout the Northeast, even creeping north of the border, to Toronto and Montreal. In South Florida, Miami and the beaches and cities that surround it host…