Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Regardless of religious affiliation, it is common for people to feel guilt during the holiday season. From all of the money one tends to spend on gifts to the cold weather that triggers minds to think of the homeless people, there are all sorts of wintery moments that trigger guilt. Even if you don’t feel…
  Some time last week, thieves broke into the Auschwitz concentration camp and stole the famous “Arbeit Macht Frei” [“work frees”] sign between 3 and 5 in the morning. While waiting for investigators and police to locate the sign, the museum’s curator has put up another sign in its place.   This sparked…
This morning, the world learned that the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign was stolen yesterday night from the entrance of Auschwitz. As Channukah is coming to an end, a holiday when we celebrate our victory over historic enemies, we are hurt by new enemies. I read today in JTA that the former Polish President Lech Walesa…
Given the opportunity, I would shoot Hitler in the face. That’s why, when I saw “Inglorious Basterds” for the first time, I sat in my chair near the end of the movie laughing and high-fiving the person next to me as Donny Donewitz, the Bear Jew, pummeled the Fuhrer right in the Charlie Chaplin mustache…
The Global Citizen is a joint project of New Voices and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS). Throughout the year, a group of former AJWS volunteers will offer their take on global justice, Judaism, and international development. Opinions expressed by Global Citizen bloggers do not necessarily represent AJWS. Last week’s weekly Torah portion, Va-yeishev, contains…
Anything ending in the suffix “ILF†can’t be good. When the latest version of the sexual phenomenon that expressed just whom the public would like to have sex with next came out, though, I was surprised. The newest “ILF†category is Jews: more specifically, Jewish women. I’ve long heard that Jewish women are whiny, kvetching…
I love forgetting Christmas. In America, this was impossible. Come Thanksgiving I would lose myself in a rush of jingles, trees and presents, but when I went to Israel in the December of my senior year I noticed that everything seemed quieter: fewer songs blared through public speakers, the malls were less crowded and the…
I am a sister of Chi Omega’s Phi Lambda chapter at Franklin & Marshall College. I was inspired to write this entry because my chapter recently held Chanukah and Christmas celebrations. We have a “point system†to ensure sisters attend enough events throughout the semester (if not, then the sister’s ability to go to formal…
This Shabbat, Midreshet Lindenbaum (where I work as a dorm counselor) took the girls to Safed. From what I understand, Shabbat in Tzfat (Safed) is a particularly interesting “chavaya†(experience) and is considered a must for those here on their gap year. To add fuel to the fire, this wasn’t just Shabbat, it was Shabbat…
The Global Citizen is a joint project of New Voices and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS). Throughout the year, a group of former AJWS volunteers will offer their take on global justice, Judaism, and international development. Opinions expressed by Global Citizen bloggers do not necessarily represent AJWS. Once again, healthcare reform is at the…
I like latkes, dreidels, gelt, presents, lighting the Channukhia, hanging out with the fam, and other such entailments of the that holiday that starts tomorrow night (December 11th, 2009) which has a difficult-to-spell name, because really, how could you not? But what exactly are we celebrating when we celebrate Chanukah? The discussion over the social…
Around this time of the year most college students are extremely stressed with studying for finals and writing final papers. Though college students are already infamously labeled for their poor nutrition consisting of fatty food and alcohol (both to excess), Chanukah gives Jews an excuse to embrace gluttony—like we need one?! I know, HAHA—with oily,…
Oy. What’s set the kvetchometer off this time, you may ask? It’s not that I have a theological problem with this, but it’s just…a bit strange. Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a Mormon, has written and performed a Hanukkah song to be released online. When I first heard the news, I thought it a bit strange….
A dog in Montana speaks Hebrew. That could have been the first sentence of a recent NYTimes article that used a vignette about an ex-IDF German shepherd living in Helena as the lead-in to a story about the small but surviving Jewish population in the Treasure State. The article spent perhaps an inordinate amount of…
The Global Citizen is a joint project of New Voices and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS). Throughout the year, a group of former AJWS volunteers will offer their take on global justice, Judaism, and international development. Opinions expressed by Global Citizen bloggers do not necessarily represent AJWS. I’m not racist, because my people were…