L’dor V’dor: The Resilience of Ethiopian Jewish Practice

By Ashton Macklin February 21, 2024

“More than one group has a pencil for the Book of Life.”

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When Kahane Came to Campus

By Charlie Summers January 12, 2024

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.

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Past Informs Present as Brown University Arrests 20 Students

By Talia LeVine December 1, 2023

Sharing the voices of Jewish organizers behind the November sit-in.

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The Science of Religion: Observations from a Jewish Astrophysicist

By Victoria Dozer November 27, 2023

“It is true that we are formed from the ‘dust of the Earth’ –  we are descendants of space stuff, whether your origin story starts with an apple or a bang.”

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Poem in which I am not the sister that kills herself 

By Rebecca Raush November 22, 2023

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 

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Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim): A Vector Collage

By Ashton Macklin November 10, 2023

New Voices Fellow, Ashton Macklin, shares a collage about our relationships to God in the abstract form.

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Review: Havurah’s First Jewish Short Film Festival

By Julia Hegele November 3, 2023

The films ranged from poignant renderings of love and loss of faith to high energy concepts toying with the forms of Judaism and film alike. 

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“Israelism” Review: The Dangers of Pro-Israel Indoctrination

By Daniel Kushner September 6, 2023

“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.”

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Is Ye the New Wagner?

By Miri Verona June 14, 2023

“He just has so many bangers!” said another Jewish friend begrudgingly the same week, dismayed that we weren’t putting Ye West on the playlist for the rager that night.

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A wooden swing hanging in midair in front of green grass.

I Have Imposter Syndrome and I’m Owning it: A Jewish Media Fellowship Reflection

By Catherine Horowitz June 13, 2023

“This was the moment I realized that I, like everyone else in the world, was not exempt from imposter syndrome.”

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4 Tips for DIY Judaism in Small Campus Communities

By Erin Ben-Moche May 22, 2018

If your family is anything like mine, you were raised on mandel bread and ridiculous family stories that felt like a “Seinfeld” reboot in the making. Growing up, I was a proud member of the Metro Detroit Jewish community. I went to shul regularly, sang in the congregational choir, taught at Sunday school, and attended…

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Student Divers Study Torah and Ocean Conservation

By Hannah Bernstein April 23, 2018

There’s an old Jewish joke about a righteous man who kept all the mitzvot. Every day, he prayed to God to win the lottery, and every day, he did not win. After the man died, he entered heaven and found himself at the foot of the Lord. In anger, he asked: “Why did you never…

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Should Hillels Do More to Prioritize Mental Health?

By Leora Eisenberg April 9, 2018

I’m no stranger to issues of mental health. Depression set in shortly after the beginning of the second semester of my sophomore year. I cried incessantly for no apparent reason, I had difficulty getting out of bed in the morning, I loathed running into an ex for fear that he would trigger a panic attack….

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Why Is Conservative Judaism Losing Millennials? Rabbi Wernick Answers

By Lev Gringauz March 14, 2018

Rabbi Steven Wernick knows that he is abandoning Conservative Jews on college campuses. As CEO of the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism since 2009, Wernick saw KOACH, the campus wing of the Conservative Movement, shut down on his watch in 2013, drawing ire from many Conservative leaders and students. Almost five years later, I caught…

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Poland Holocaust Law Prompts European Jewish Student Reactions

By Lev Gringauz February 21, 2018

A new piece of right-wing Polish legislation, which criminalizes accusing Poland of complicity in the Holocaust, sparked international condemnation, hitting a particularly raw nerve with Jews in America and Israel. But for European Jewry – and Jewish students – this nerve has been exposed for years. The amendment to the Act on the Institute of…

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