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.

Read More...

Home Will Not Wait For Us

By Aliyah Blattner December 19, 2023

“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.”

Read More...

Opinion: Demonizing Each Other Hurts Us All

By Rebecca Raush December 7, 2023

“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.”

Read More...

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 

Read More...

Students share how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting life on campus

By New Voices October 23, 2023

“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.”

Read More...

Between My Derech & The World: Wrestling with Antisemitism & Apostasy

By Mx. Je'Jae Cleo Daniels April 5, 2022

Facing antisemitism as an ex-Orthodox, Queer-Mizrahi Jew in America

Read More...

Decolonizing Through Doykeit: Zine Review

By Miranda Sullivan December 16, 2021

Reviewing the anti-Zionist queer and Jewish “yearbook” series that’s made many diaspora Jews feel less alone.

Read More...

Start Preparing Early for An Anti-Nationalist Hanukkah: A Zine Review

By Miranda Sullivan October 25, 2021

Reviewing eight nights of radical Hanukkah mini-zines

Read More...

Diaspora English: On A Year of War, Plague, and Turning

By Daniel Crasnow September 9, 2021

Looking back on a year of teaching English in Tel Aviv and Nazareth during a resurgence of violence and a global pandemic.

Read More...

Consolations For the Self-Hating Jew

By Rena Yehuda Newman July 18, 2021

“Little Jew, you have no / power but the blame / takes the edge off.” A poem for T’sha b’av.

Read More...

Diaspora English: A Tour of the West Bank

By Daniel Crasnow July 1, 2021

Daniel Crasnow sees the occupation up close through the lens of “Breaking the Silence”

Read More...

Who’s Disarming the Fight Against Antisemitism?

By Ethan Friedland June 24, 2021

Crying wolf about online antisemitism cheapens the term to the point of insignificance, endangering American Jews in the process.

Read More...

Envisioning Jewish Safety Beyond the Nation State

By Drew Perkoski June 1, 2021

On escaping antisemitic violence through community building, not nation building.

Read More...

Peeling Back the Mythology of the Australian Jewish Left

By Mika Benesh May 25, 2021

While mainstream Jewish Australian institutions remain right-wing, Jewish communist, anti-fascist, and anti-colonial movements – and memories of them – are bubbling back into awareness for many young Australian Jews.

Read More...

Dispatch from a Teacher in Nazareth

By Daniel Crasnow May 21, 2021

An American Jewish English teacher reflects on the moments before a ceasefire in the eerie quiet of a kibbutz.

Read More...