A Closer Look at WashJew

By Micah Sandman June 7, 2021

A conspicuous Jewish presence at an elite university has some side effects

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Embracing Uncertainty: Why You Don’t Need To Have Everything Figured Out

By Amber Ikeman November 5, 2014

Do you ever get so overwhelmed about your future that you want to just stop what you’re doing, run out into a field and scream, “WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH MY LIFE?!?” Yeah. That’s about where I am right now. I left Yellowstone National Park three weeks ago, where I was working seasonally….

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My Best Friend is Anti-Semitic

By David G. August 11, 2014

Staring across a room filled with tiny chairs and colorful books, I felt a great fear. The other people there were all strangers, the person across from me had bright red spiked hair, and only about 8 teeth. He looked sort of like my glue-sniffing boss from my days as a janitor. This was way…

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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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How I Tipped the Scales in my Favor

By David G. June 13, 2014

I recently decided to finish up school while studying in Israel. I found a program, was accepted, and everything looked amazing. I would be free from the spiritually lacking world of New Jersey, where I spend all day slaving away at a keyboard, to receive Torah from amazing teachers— in Jerusalem of all places!— instead….

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Five Better Uses for Hillel’s $18 Million in Funding

By Carl Levitt February 4, 2014

1. Give $18 million to Carl Levitt. It is a truth universally acknowledged that life after college is hard. With $18 million, I, Carl Levitt, could pay off my creditors and perhaps even live comfortably for the rest of my days. After four grueling years studying at this institution, $18 million would be the least…

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The Holy Potential of Bling

By David G. January 3, 2014

  If you’ve been following the story so far, God, through Moses, has been sending plague after plague upon the Egyptians, steadily bringing the greatest empire on Earth to its knees all for the sake of a small nation of slaves. This week, in Parashat Bo,  the story is coming toward its great climax, with…

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Pew Survey Conversation (Part 2)

By Derek M. Kwait October 29, 2013

Part 2 of a 3 part series. Part 1 is here. 4.      Are the survey’s categories of denomination a useful marker of determining true religious affiliation/practice in today’s Jewish world? Dr. Steven M. Cohen, sociologist: Yes. Denominational identities can be meaningful for people as many are strongly attached to Orthodoxy, Conservatism, Reform, and Reconstructionism. But…

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Now Hiring! Part III: Arts & Culture Freelancers

By admin September 11, 2012

As if it wasn’t amazing enough that we’re looking for some student writers and editors to work for us part-time all semester… and if it wasn’t amazing enough that we’re looking for a new someone for a full-time gig, we’re looking for some freelancers too: Attention college students with itchy keyboard fingers and clever ideas:…

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An Open Letter to the Money-Grubbing Jews

By Ben Sales July 24, 2009

Thanks, crooked ultra-Orthodox. You, with your flowing white beards, black velvet kippot, black coats and blacker hats, have shown the world that we Jews love laundering money through corrupt charities. You, who present yourself to the world as the platinum standard of our religion and culture, have branded us all with the stereotype we’ve been…

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Scammed by a Jew during the Three Weeks

By Ben Sales July 21, 2009

An Israeli stole $300 from me yesterday. Said Israeli, whose name–I have since learned–is not Avi Levi, played me for the cash under the pretense of needing medicine money for his sick 10-year old daughter, who had flo4from Israel to Maryland for kidney surgery the day before. He needed the medicine before flying back, he…

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