Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
As the Fall semester sets in across the country and 8 PM sunsets begin to fade away, there is something on the mind of many college students – what clubs do I join? From the many pre-professional business frats to the local community advocacy groups, there are an overabundance of options for students wanting to…
“Quickly, I learned that it was not only possible – but necessary – to hold multiple truths and consider the traumas of multiple peoples.”
The ultranationalist rabbi whose successors are now at the helm of Israel’s government had an intimate history with Maryland’s Jewish community — one which has been long-since forgotten.
“I once wept outside / a Domino’s in Jerusalem while the buses didn’t run, / parted ways with the child who grew up believing / that somewhere home was waiting for her.”
“I am choosing to allow for my discomfort because dialogue is important to me, and I believe that peace will always begin with a commitment towards understanding.”
When she calls us to tell us she’s in the hospital / She being my sister / Or She being my homeland / We drive to the hospital / It’s Shabbat / We drive to the hospital
“To ignore my emotions would be to ignore the empathy I have for Israelis and Palestinians who are being driven from their homes and who are being killed as collateral damage.”
Facing antisemitism as an ex-Orthodox, Queer-Mizrahi Jew in America
Reviewing the anti-Zionist queer and Jewish “yearbook” series that’s made many diaspora Jews feel less alone.
Reviewing eight nights of radical Hanukkah mini-zines
Looking back on a year of teaching English in Tel Aviv and Nazareth during a resurgence of violence and a global pandemic.
“Little Jew, you have no / power but the blame / takes the edge off.” A poem for T’sha b’av.
Daniel Crasnow sees the occupation up close through the lens of “Breaking the Silence”
Crying wolf about online antisemitism cheapens the term to the point of insignificance, endangering American Jews in the process.
On escaping antisemitic violence through community building, not nation building.