How to travel Europe with your ghosts

By Leah Tribbett June 3, 2016

To grow up Jewish is to grow up haunted. I’ve never lived on a Civil War battleground, and I’ve never shared my closet with a ghost (two brothers who tried to scare me to death, yes — but never a ghost), and yet the feeling of being haunted is as well known to me as…

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Find The Jewish Community You’ve Always Wanted on Campus

By Ed Mighell June 10, 2014

Transitioning from high school to college can be frightening. It sure was for me. I lived in a small town with an even smaller Jewish community and I wasn’t sure how I would fit in with the rest of the world. I had very little experience with people outside my community and I was worried…

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Jewish Geography: The Academic Reality of Yiddishkeit’s Favorite Game

By Jonathan Katz April 30, 2014

  I am a History and Geography major. No, I do not look at maps all day: Geography is actually a real academic discipline, which can basically be summed up as “the study of the land and the things on it.” All sorts of Geography exists: cultural, physical, political, linguistic, theoretical, and demographic among them….

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