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Last week, I wrote a post about a debate underway within my Hillel chapter. The debate centered around whether or not we should take down an Israeli flag that hangs outside our space on campus. The person who sparked this debate argued that it did not represent Middlebury’s vibrant and diverse Jewish community and that […]
Hello, world! This is Harpo Jaeger speaking (writing?) I’m a new poster at New Voices, having met Ben Sales at the J Street conference. I’m a freshman at Brown University, and I blog at my own site, as well as at Jewschool. This first post comes at an interesting time in my life as a […]
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 believe I’m not the only one […]
I am sure you are all aware of the case being considered by Britain’s Supreme Court over the issue of rejecting a student because the mother converted to Progressive Judaism, and not Orthodox at JFS (Jews’ Free School). If not, or if you want to read more details, I have provided several links throughout this […]
When I think of famous Jews in the world today, ones that would be ideal to visit a conference like the recent Reform biennial in Toronto, who comes to mind? Rahm Emanuel, Joe Lieberman…. and Tony Blair? The reformers brought out some big guns at their conference, pulling a few surprises that may have proved […]
Back home in Dayton, Ohio, the Jewish community is tiny. The only way to engage in that community is to go to services and see the same people over and over again. As for the services themselves, you have three choices–reform, conservative, or Chabad. Here in Chicago, though, it’s quite different. My college campus has […]
 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.  At my school I am […]
Jews have no homeland; they spread out among the nations and seek to control them through a vast underground conspiracy. This was the central claim of Western ethnically-centered anti-Semitism; the point of Zionism, in the writings of Herzl and practical plans of Ben-Gurion and Begin, was to invalidate that claim by providing a nation-state for […]
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. “When life itself is at stake it […]
What is it about our lives that fictional books and movies appeal to us more than non-fiction or real life stories? Why don’t people have enough confidence in their own lives, their own story, that instead they feel that they have to turn to movies and books while hoping that these things would happen to […]