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It’s Un-American
Recently, I attended Shabbat services at my Conservative synagogue in Norfolk, Virginia. During the service, a young girl in our congregation sang a beautiful rendition of “Sim Shalom,” the prayer for peace, to the accompaniment of a piano-playing rabbi. Many of our members had never heard the tune and were quite moved by her performance. […]
The Midwest State, the Heavy Artillery, and the Jewish Girl
Survival Tips for the End of Days
Summer Reading for the Nuclear Winter
The Apocalypse in Israeli Film
Home Cooking for the World to Come
In Praise of Paranoia
After two and a half years of tofu burgers and other unrecognizable foods such as meatless meatballs, I decided it was finally time to end my lean years and take up meat again. It just so happened that this turning point in my life coincided with the beginning of my undergraduate college career at Yeshiva […]
While many students use spring break as a time to explore the beaches of Florida or work up a nice tan on the coast of Mexico, I and eight fellow students from the University of Minnesota took a different approach this year. Instead of packing swimsuits and suntan lotion, we renewed our passports and hopped […]