Hannah Smith is a Master’s student at Stanford University in Latin American Studies. This week I opened my drawer at my family’s home in Maryland
There is a Jewish folktale from Egypt called “Elijah’s Violin” and I had to go track it down after I, along with so many,
If the annexation debate has achieved anything, it has proved one thing: the mainstream American Jewish community is dead. It is failing all of us,
Protests have been taking place across the US over the last three weeks in response to the continuation of police killings of unarmed black people.
I stand at the intersection of many competing and sometimes incongruent identities finding it hard to breathe. I say this acknowledging that I am able
“If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” — Final social media post of Charlottesville martyr Heather Heyer; may Hashem avenge her blood. We are
Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Graduate Certificate program in
On June 3, more than 100 organizations in the mainstream of the American Jewish community issued a statement in the wake of the murder of
It is rough out there, so if you’ve disengaged to some degree from social media as an act of self-preservation, that’s understandable. (But also, get
Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor, College of Charleston I have been waiting for a moment to write about this, and the RCA’s failed statement is my moment. I
