YU’s Basketball Stardom Can’t Dazzle Away Assault Allegations

By Dylan Caine January 18, 2022

Yeshiva University’s win-streak is overshadowing the team’s assault allegations. Jewish Press coverage is complicit.

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The Jews Who Celebrate Christmas

By Catherine Horowitz December 20, 2021

As the assimilation dilemma grows, an obsession with “continuity discourse” may be creating more barriers for Jews often shamed for multi-traditional upbringings.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Intermarriage

By Drew Perkoski November 17, 2021

Many young Jews are growing critical of arguments for Jewish continuity that demonize their families or futures.

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Jewish Continuity Demands We Fight For a Green New Deal

By C.C. Wilder September 2, 2021

Activists from the Workers Circle College Network are organizing a new campaign in the ongoing struggle for climate justice.

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We Need to Discuss Hyper-Masculinity in Israeli Culture

By Carolyn Brodie September 10, 2019

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.

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My Interfaith Family is Your Jewish Future

By Sophie Hurwitz September 20, 2018

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…

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