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This post comes in response to Harpo Jaeger’s critique of my Holocaust Remembrance Day post from last week. Harpo accuses me of promoting Jewish exceptionalism. While my post dealt with the importance of remembering the Holocaust and not with Jewish achievement, I believe that Jews should be proud of their exceptionalism and there is no […]
And you thought you needed a high school diploma to get elected to political office. Rachel Lester, a 15-year old sophomore at Los Angeles’s Jewish  Shalhevet School, won an election last week to serve as a representative to the South Robertson Neighborhood council. Her victory makes her the youngest representative ever elected to an LA neighborhood council. […]
Thanks to everyone who read my article (“Don’t Hate the Jewish State,” April 12) and especially to those of you who took the time to respond to it, either critically or in support. My article drew so many critical comments because it addressed an idea that makes Jews uncomfortable: that Judaism and Jewish identity do […]
Jewlicious, a three-day national Jewish festival and conference for young Jews in southern California, wanted to bring together Orthodox and Reform, hipsters and hippies, New Yorkers and Los Angelenos. But what happens when those Jews all find themselves in the same place?
This post is cross-posted from J Street U’s blog. Dual Israeli-American citizenship can make me feel a tad schizophrenic. At our small Passover seder this March I sat next to Gilad Shalit, or at least the chair set for him by our friends on the moshav. The empty seat seemed to lodge a big splinter […]
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’s an odd mind-bender when noble ventures […]
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. I recently saw signs posted on my […]
Giddy up! The harness racing world put a Jewish spin on their April 5 races with the Monticello Raceway 12th Annual Passover Pace. The “run for the matzohs†(a pun on horse racing’s most famous contest, the Kentucky Derby, also known as the “Run for the Rosesâ€) featured Jewish jockeys and top-notch horses. The sport […]
Sam Green has done it again. His opinion piece about the dangers of Jewish student anti-Zionism, “Don’t Hate the Jewish State,” has prompted a flurry of opposition from defenders of ideological pluralism when it comes to Zionism. Jewschool‘s Ben Murane has weighed in, as well as Harpo Jaeger and a range of other Twitterers and […]