YU’s Basketball Stardom Can’t Dazzle Away Assault Allegations
Yeshiva University’s win-streak is overshadowing the team’s assault allegations. Jewish Press coverage is complicit.
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Yeshiva University’s win-streak is overshadowing the team’s assault allegations. Jewish Press coverage is complicit.
As the assimilation dilemma grows, an obsession with “continuity discourse” may be creating more barriers for Jews often shamed for multi-traditional upbringings.
Many young Jews are growing critical of arguments for Jewish continuity that demonize their families or futures.
My first encounter with a hyper-masculine Israeli man was on my Birthright trip in the summer of 2017. He was a soldier – stout, muscular, uniformed – paired with my group as a part of mifgash for the whole 10 days we were there, and a few days into the trip he decided he would sit in the empty seat beside me on the bus.
This past spring, Sheldon Adelson—noted Republican donor and Birthright funder—was awarded the “Guardian of the Jewish Future” award at the annual Birthright Israel gala in New York City. Without Birthright, he said, only 42% of Jewish kids between the ages of 18 and 26 marry other Jews or bring up their children Jewish. “In another…