Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
My father has always loved math because it’s simple, it’s direct and it’s truth. That’s not always the case, though. Statistics are finagled all the time, and the student newspaper at American University, the Eagle, of which I am the student life editor, found that AU’s Jewishness was not as black and white as we…
Today’s question comes from a variety of people, names excluded. Suffice it to say that more than five have approached me in conversation with this burning question: Jewish atheism? What’s up with that? While some people have articulated their curiosity more eloquently, most have cut right to the point: “What is Jewish atheism? Isn’t that…
On my first day in Poland, as I sat jet-lagged in the only Kosher restaurant in Krakow, the Olive Tree, my group leader told us each that we would be taking a day trip in a few days to small, formerly Jewish towns around Krakow. Only half-aware of what was happening, my friend Alexandria and…
In the Medieval Ages, Christians developed the myth of the Wandering a Jew, a Judean who refused to help a soon-to-be-crucified Jesus and was cursed to wander the Earth for eternity. Historians agree that’s awfully silly but the epithet endures (sometimes reclaimed by Jews themselves). Nevertheless, it’s time to face the facts: Jews live and…
The laughter of playing children can be heard amid the chatter of college students at Hillel on Friday nights. It may be unusual for Hillel attendees to show up with their own children, but at Franklin & Marshall College, students aren’t the only regulars. Many professors and their families celebrate Shabbat on campus, too. The close student-professor relationship is the reason why senior Jessica Fink came to F&M, a small liberal arts school. “Whether or not I actually speak to my professors at Hillel, I feel that seeing them around campus, and at Hillel, enhances the feeling of community and familiarity that makes F&M so special,” Fink said.
Sex. Ostensibly there is nothing of the sort at Yeshiva University. As the exemplar of American Modern Orthodoxy, YU has something of a pristine reputation. Many parents send their children to YU with the hopes of preventing them from being sucked into the big, bad college world of drinking, drugs and, of course, sex. YU…
Jun Chen is a non-Jewish New Voices writer at Indiana University. In Part I of a three-part series called Non-Members of The Tribe, Chen writes about her own experiences getting to know the Jewish people and about why young Chinese have an affinity for the Jews. In Parts II and III, coming over the next two weeks, she will profile other non-Jews who have become deeply involved with the Jewish community in Bloomington, Ind.