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The Global Citizen is a joint project of New Voices and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS). Throughout the year, a group of former AJWS volunteers will offer their take on global justice, Judaism, and international development. Opinions expressed by Global Citizen bloggers do not necessarily represent AJWS. “We will now begin boarding flight 398…
You know, I think that the ‘Black Eyed Peas’ were onto something when they wrote the words to their song ‘Where is the Love?’:  If you only have love for your own race, Then you only leave space to discriminate And to discriminate only generates hate And if you hate than you’re bound to…
If you think about it, Thanksgiving, or ‘T-giving’ as I have taken to calling it in the past month, while not strictly a Jewish holiday, sure seems like one—the food, the guilt, the family and things associated with each—add up to a pretty Jew-y holiday tradition. And this year my family’s celebration seemed especially so….
When Jews fled Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they scattered all over the globe. Many came to America, helping to found the prominent Ashkenazi community in the country today. Throughout the twentieth century, Jews suffered under the reign of the Soviet Union presidents and are still marginalized in Russia today. Yet, tucked away…
OK, I’ll admit–this post isn’t about anything profound or relevant to anybody other than myself, but I just thought I’d share it because it’s all I can really think about. Today is my first day home after almost three months of being away at college, and it feels great. My parents cleaned up my room…
This week food store shelves are being wiped of turkeys, cranberry sauces, corn, pumpkin and countless other Thanksgiving accompaniments. While Thanksgiving is a secular holiday, I felt like it is appropriate to write about this week because I am seriously itching to go home for the break. People enjoy Thanksgiving because it usually consists of…
Jews all over the world are all aware of the bleak reality: one of our boys has been in held in captivity by an Arab terrorist group for over three years. Gilad Shalit, a soldier in Israel’s Armored Corp (a.k.a. tanks for the non-army savvy) was kidnapped in June 2006 and has been held captive…
This past Tuesday, I participated in a conference call with J Street U. For anyone not familiar with this organization from the media or from your own campus, it used to be known as the Union of Progressive Zionists and is now the campus branch of J Street. The topic which prompted this conference call…
Two weeks ago, I wrote about my hesitations with the “she-kippah,” which probably gave a few people the impression that I was against women partaking in various rituals and traditions. Which, of course, is completely untrue. That said, I was absolutely appalled when I noticed that Jewschool had posted that a woman was arrested at…
The Global Citizen is a joint project of New Voices and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS). Throughout the year, a group of former AJWS volunteers will offer their take on global justice, Judaism, and international development. Opinions expressed by Global Citizen bloggers do not necessarily represent AJWS. It was a typical drizzling Oxford night….
“Why do we need to learn these?†my co-teacher, Robin, asked, the five fifth grade students present in class that day, pointing to the stack of Hebrew letters and vowels which we had just reviewed for the last thirty minutes. “So we can be ready for our Bat-Mitzvah,†Alison immediately replied. “And then after that,…
The Global Citizen is a joint project of New Voices and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS). Throughout the year, a group of former AJWS volunteers will offer their take on global justice, Judaism and international development. Opinions expressed by Global Citizen bloggers do not necessarily represent AJWS. Let’s talk about the birds and the…
An evening in Crown Heights with Chabad’s international emissaries reveals a world of passion and paradox.
In my Intro to Islam class we recently read Al-e Ahmad’s Gharbzadegi (West-struckness). In this he discusses Islam’s reliance on the West, primarily with their machinery. The problem of this lays fundamentally within the leaders who are western-educated, and the only way to fix this is to go back to religion and to teach Muslims…
Empire Maker. Ghostzapper. Sightseek. Rattling off the names of these horses, I can’t help but realize that most other people besides Thoroughbred horse racing enthusiasts will have any idea about who or what they are. These magnificent animals were just some of the horses under the conditioning of the Jewish Hall of Fame racing trainer…