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On a summer internship in Sderot, the embattled southern Israeli town near Gaza, the author sees trauma through the lens of the camera. A story about qassams, plays and perseverance.
Bailey Spagat is participating in Career Israel, one of Masa Israel’s 180 programs.
The fact that I am shomer shabbat has been the major obstacle to my buying a kindle or nook. However, that all changed recently. My sister, Adina, is applying to a few business schools (Shout out!). Because she works in the corporate world, she is the go-to sibling to check cover letters and résumés. But […]
On October 21, the Cambridge Union Society held a debate on the motion that “Israel is a rogue state.” According to the Balfour Street blog, “the proposition was defeated, but the event proceeded with an unusual twist. It seems one of the members of the side in favor of the proposition, a student who was […]
The Orthodox community’s response to homosexuality is an increasingly talked about issue A new piece in the conversation is a new video that came out a few days ago. What do you think?
Uproar abounds (again) as Glenn Beck says something sensational and reckless. Everybody and their bubbe are condemning Beck today, with the appropriate amount of moral indignation and outrage. Could it be true?! Is Glenn Beck an … (whispers) anti-Semite? Let’s be clear. Glenn Beck is not a journalist. Glenn Beck is not a professor or […]
What should Jewish students who visit Brussels do? Apparently, they should celebrate Shabbat, tour the city and then get down. [JPost] The kollel stipend protests continue… [JPost] While at Arizona State University, students protest IDF soldiers. [Mondoweiss] And at the University of South Carolina, the administration plans to revise the school’s discrimination policy, which could affect […]
After another busy few days at Pardes I have had time to review the news from the week that has past, and I am pleasantly surprised to note the tone that the prime minister of my country, Stephen Harper, took in his speech to the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (see Canada’s national paper, […]
Clearly, I like to riff on the wisdom of Raymond Carver in my blog posts–but so what? I like repetition. And repetition is just one of the million things I want to talk about after having just gotten back from the General Assembly (of the Jewish Federations of North America) less than 24 hours ago. […]
It may get the Guinness World Record for “smallest wedding proposal ever:” a computer chip plated in gold. [Forward Shmooze] The University of California cannot censor the anti-Semitic statements of Muslim groups, says the UC’s president. [JJ] The GA hosts a student journalism conference aimed at making said students Israel advocates. A telling quote: “I will […]