Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Five years ago, after publishing my first big piece, I received an email. How dare you? You’ll be hearing from my lawyers. Or something along these lines. I’d written a basic coverage piece about a local high school party, where red solo cups had been arranged to look like swastikas in a game…
The role of the Jewish artist, as Sasha Jonah Lazer once wrote, is to make diaspora irresistible. Onward. I wouldn’t come to know entirely what this meant until my junior year of college when I enrolled in a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language course at Penn, my home institution. I had already grown my fervor for…