Our Adar Hearts
“As we read a text about Adar, and one about feeling the pain of those suffering, The Fellows wrote our own Torah as a response.”
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
“As we read a text about Adar, and one about feeling the pain of those suffering, The Fellows wrote our own Torah as a response.”
The ultranationalist rabbi whose successors are now at the helm of Israel’s government had an intimate history with Maryland’s Jewish community — one which has been long-since forgotten.
“As the war continues, students search for an outlet for their grief, and ways to do something that feels meaningful. But constraints like social anxiety, institutional pressure, and blacklisting have made activism difficult.”
“I once wept outside / a Domino’s in Jerusalem while the buses didn’t run, / parted ways with the child who grew up believing / that somewhere home was waiting for her.”
“I am choosing to allow for my discomfort because dialogue is important to me, and I believe that peace will always begin with a commitment towards understanding.”
Sharing the voices of Jewish organizers behind the November sit-in.
When she calls us to tell us she’s in the hospital / She being my sister / Or She being my homeland / We drive to the hospital / It’s Shabbat / We drive to the hospital
“My professors teach that we can either pick up a sign and flag and join the protest, or we can pick up a camera and pen to cover the event as a journalist, but never both.”
“To ignore my emotions would be to ignore the empathy I have for Israelis and Palestinians who are being driven from their homes and who are being killed as collateral damage.”
“Formless and void, tohu v’vohu is the swirling celestial wilderness, before divinity started forming creation. It feels cosmically significant that we have been brought here, now.”
“When a rabbi takes it upon themselves to forge a Golem, there is an emergency. The being represents an attempt to rebuild, to protect, and most literally, to physicalize the truth.”
“In declaring that the only way for Jews to be safe is for Israel to be safe, the safety of Jews everywhere else has effectively been compromised.”
“At this moment of heightened conflict, we must remember, and draw inspiration from the Mizrahi legacy of intersectional activism through the Mizrahi Black Panther Party in Israel.”
“Right at the moment when I felt the least aligned with Judaism, I was cast in the most Jewish musical in existence.”