Can I Study God in Graduate School?

By Josh Daniels January 5, 2017

As the New Year passes, I am increasingly aware of the fact that I’ve graduated, and I don’t have a job just yet. Like many recent graduates, my biggest question is what path to take, as I consider a couple major choices on the horizon – in my case, graduate school vs. rabbinical ordination. I want…

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Why Religion Matters – With or Without God

By Daniel Levine December 21, 2016

Original version published on whoknowsoneblog.wordpress.com. Is there something that faith brings to our society that we would lack if we lived in a world without religion? To the person who has perfect belief in God or a specific religion, this question seems silly. In their minds, of course the presence of their specific religion is of…

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The Language of Angels

By Josh Morrel February 5, 2015

  As I sit across from her over a plate of chocolate chip cookies and a cup of dark coffee in the newly renovated faculty cafeteria, I think to myself: “I have so much respect for her.” Truth be told, I have so much respect for all of my colleagues because they’ve been doing this…

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Why is a Nice Jewish Girl Like You Moving to Wyoming?

By Amber Ikeman July 29, 2014

I turned 25 this year. Something about that looming birthday made me evaluate who I was, who I am, and who I want to be. I asked myself if I was happy, if I was fulfilled and doing what I pictured for myself in my mid-twenties. It didn’t take long to realize that the answer was no. I…

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A Degree in Social Media [Unnecessary?]

By pkessler March 1, 2012

My friends and I all joke that we’re essentially unemployable because we attend a liberal arts school, but there might be some degrees that will be more wonkily received by the job market than a Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies major. As I scroll through my college’s career database, searching for internships for the summer,…

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A Nazi Runs for Congress; Pro-Israel Advocates to help Iranian group; M.B.A in Social Media and more [Required Reading]

By pkessler March 1, 2012

Congressional Hopeful Denies Holocaust [Forward] Arthur Jones, a Lyons, Ill. insurance salesman, is seeking the Republican congressional nomination to run against Democratic incumbent Dan Lipinski for Illinois’s 3rd Congressional District this fall. His credentials include being an active member of the National Socialist Party, participating in their march on Chicago’s Marquette Park in 1978. Historic Chicago Synagogue…

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