Kayla Lichtman

There and Back Again: Tracing an Activist’s Unusual Journey

By Kayla Lichtman | April 9, 2019

In July of 2014, sirens pierced the Jerusalem air, warning of rockets coming from Gaza. Nathan Young, then a 22-year-old junior studying abroad, leaped off the bus heading toward his dorm room at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and hurried into a gas station store-turned-bomb-shelter, feeling numb. Young recalls being on the phone with a…

There and Back Again: Navigating Judaism Between Campus and Home

By Kayla Lichtman | February 26, 2019

Sitting at the dinner table over winter break with her parents, holding her very own three-person Shabbat service, Adrienne Sugarman got the distinct sense that home was not quite the place it used to be. Sugarman, a Middlebury College sophomore, was intent on recreating the Shabbat services that she attends every week on campus. Needless…