Diaspora English: First Realizations in Nazareth

By Daniel Crasnow April 7, 2021

I wondered what part of his tour-guide history taught him to step to the back of the group he’s guiding, as he bowed to a religious sight. Was it just a part of getting out of the way— a matter of priorities in which his holy experience need not interrupt our photograph opportunity? Or was there something deeper there— a mutual shame on both our ends.

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I Found God When I Learned to Love Myself

By Carolyn Brodie December 5, 2019

The next day, atop Masada, I chose my Hebrew name and began my Jewish life. I was Rivkah, Matriarch; I was done taking shit from any human, institution, or supreme being. The Judaism I found gave me space to be newly brazen, and radically myself.

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Life as a Jew at Catholic U

By Sherilyn James June 3, 2015

Choosing a college was the first big choice I had ever made. I knew Seton Hall University gave away good scholarships, was close, and I figured I had nothing to lose. Two months later, I was accepted to their six year B.S.E. Elementary/Special Education/M.S. Speech Pathology program. The first time I set foot on campus,…

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Divest Now: How a Two-State Solution Can Only Come Through Divestment

By Aaron Lerner June 19, 2014

Witnessing the first day of the Presbyterian General Assembly has been both empowering and dismaying. I am glad to have been part of an effective coalition of Jews, Presbyterians, and Palestinians, and Muslims coming together to support the Presbyterian Church’s effort to divest from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola. But I’m dismayed by the opposition’s claim…

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Opening up to Interfaith

By ahowie April 4, 2011

I have never been opposed to interfaith, but have always found it very fake.  It was never genuine.  It wasn’t a religious Jew and a religious Christian looking to grow from their interactions, but more a “let’s all love each other and forget we have any differences.  I’ll sit through your service if you sit…

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The Reading List: Proof that Vatican II Is Working

By Ben Sales February 10, 2011

Maybe we’re not so different after all. Apparently it’s just as hard to be a friendly, amiable and polite person at church as it is at synagogue. [Cartoon Church] Here’s a moving series of short biographies about the Jewish servicemen and servicewomen who have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. One of…

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