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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. It was a typical drizzling Oxford night….
“Why do we need to learn these?†my co-teacher, Robin, asked, the five fifth grade students present in class that day, pointing to the stack of Hebrew letters and vowels which we had just reviewed for the last thirty minutes. “So we can be ready for our Bat-Mitzvah,†Alison immediately replied. “And then after that,…
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. Let’s talk about the birds and the…
In my Intro to Islam class we recently read Al-e Ahmad’s Gharbzadegi (West-struckness). In this he discusses Islam’s reliance on the West, primarily with their machinery. The problem of this lays fundamentally within the leaders who are western-educated, and the only way to fix this is to go back to religion and to teach Muslims…
Empire Maker. Ghostzapper. Sightseek. Rattling off the names of these horses, I can’t help but realize that most other people besides Thoroughbred horse racing enthusiasts will have any idea about who or what they are. These magnificent animals were just some of the horses under the conditioning of the Jewish Hall of Fame racing trainer…
At today’s meeting of the Brown/RISD Hillel Shabbat Committee, I restarted a discussion that I began several weeks ago: my hope to create some kind of alternative programming on Friday night for people who’d rather not go to services. Â To me, this seemed like a fairly straightforward proposal, but it met some serious opposition, and…
Last week I blogged about an opportunity to connect to the Jewish community outside of my school. This week I’m switching gears completely to write about a great opportunity I had right here on campus–hearing Yossi Klein Halevi speak. Halevi is a contributing editor of the New Republic and occasionally writes for the Los Angeles…
 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.                     This Shabbat marks a…
Last week, the Twitterverse was all a-tweet with buzz from the GA. Live-tweeting by countless people and organizations left those of us at home still able to feel like we had a front-row seat. Just take a look at this post by @EstherK on My Urban Kvetch. Of all the tweets tagged #ga09, I think…
Last week, I wrote a post about a debate underway within my Hillel chapter. The debate centered around whether or not we should take down an Israeli flag that hangs outside our space on campus. The person who sparked this debate argued that it did not represent Middlebury’s vibrant and diverse Jewish community and that…
Hello, world! This is Harpo Jaeger speaking (writing?) I’m a new poster at New Voices, having met Ben Sales at the J Street conference. I’m a freshman at Brown University, and I blog at my own site, as well as at Jewschool. This first post comes at an interesting time in my life as a…
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 believe I’m not the only one…
I am sure you are all aware of the case being considered by Britain’s Supreme Court over the issue of rejecting a student because the mother converted to Progressive Judaism, and not Orthodox at JFS (Jews’ Free School). If not, or if you want to read more details, I have provided several links throughout this…
When I think of famous Jews in the world today, ones that would be ideal to visit a conference like the recent Reform biennial in Toronto, who comes to mind? Rahm Emanuel, Joe Lieberman…. and Tony Blair? The reformers brought out some big guns at their conference, pulling a few surprises that may have proved…
Back home in Dayton, Ohio, the Jewish community is tiny. The only way to engage in that community is to go to services and see the same people over and over again. As for the services themselves, you have three choices–reform, conservative, or Chabad. Here in Chicago, though, it’s quite different. My college campus has…