Rina Shamilov

New Beginnings: Unfolding

By Rina Shamilov December 18, 2024

This piece is featured in our New Beginnings series, exploring the emergent ideas, emotions, and social upheavals of a new era of progressive Jewish culture. We are writing for a brighter future, while honoring our past. More to come.  Going to graduate school was supposed to be exciting and liberating, but the Indiana-bound-New York train…

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Bloom

By Rina Shamilov June 3, 2024

“We’d been flirting for over a week now, but being in an Orthodox Jewish seminary made it hard for us to actually do anything.”

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Defying Orthodoxies on Israel/Palestine: A YU Student’s Journey

By Rina Shamilov April 17, 2024

“Quickly, I learned that it was not only possible – but necessary – to hold multiple truths and consider the traumas of multiple peoples.”

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