Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
This article was originally posted on the author’s personal blog, and can be read here. What I have to say is controversial. But bear with me, and let me first contextualize, with something I think we all can agree on. The Jewish narrative is one of struggle. With me so far? Since the birth of the…
I could write a whole article just listing Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow’s achievements. Kaufman is the founder and former director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the first, largest, and possibly the most prestigious Jewish film festival in the world. She has been on the boards of the California Council for the Humanities,…
I was sitting in class the other day chattering to a friend about my Passover plans when the Hawaiian girl next to me, Leah Lau, leaned over and said that she was also Jewish. I did a double take, drinking in her features and wavering tan line. Her mom is a Jewess from the east…
In some ways it feels like yesterday that I walked into this apartment for the first time, toured Pardes for the first time, and met the people who turned out to make up what came to be a fantastic and interesting community of friends. In reality, however, nearly four months have passed. A few weeks…
“I know it’s bizarre for a young Jewish girl from Connecticut to be so inclined…†That began my application for an internship at an independent New York City hip-hop record label. Most people would consider it a bit out of the ordinary for a white, suburban Jewish girl to be fascinated by the urban music…
In his blog post from June 18, Aryeh Roskies wrote that in Israel “it is possible to construct a concrete secular Jewish identity.†His column focused on the struggle of preserving an authentic and vibrant Jewish culture in the absence of religious uniformity, and he mentioned Israel only to contrast the Israeli Jewish community with…
Last week, the ultra-Orthodox yeshiva high school where I teach marked the end of the year with a siyum, a celebration in honor of the completion of a tractate of the Talmud. Almost every male there wore a black hat, but I wore a crocheted kippah. It was clear that they were ultra-Orthodox and that…