Denmark’s Jewish Heritage
by Kayla Green
Many experiences come to mind when one imagines a trip to Copenhagen, including seeing the famous statue of Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid,...
Keeping Up With the Times: Digitizing Holocaust Archives
By Amanda Walgrove
The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email...
Keeping Up With the Times: Digitizing Holocaust Archives
By Amanda Walgrove
The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email...
The Combative Pacifism and Poetry of Grace Paley
by Amanda Walgrove
Grace Paley was a Jewish pacifist accused of having an Irish temper. Armed with a strong Bronx accent and a stronger rhetorical voice,...
A Revolution By Any Other Name
By Niv Elis
For the Czech Republic it was Velvet. For Serbia, it was a Bulldozer. For Iran, it was distinctly Islamic. But nobody has yet...
People of the Book: Interview with Julie Orringer
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Sitting on a faux cowhide bench with rock music blaring at full volume in a small coffee shop in one of Brooklyn’s hipper...
Czech Out Those Jews: Judaism in the Czech Republic
By Kayla Green
How is it possible to judge the attitude toward Jews in the Czech Republic, a country where Jews have in recent history suffered...
For Israel, Tough Choices on Egypt
By Steven Philp
On Saturday Israeli President Shimon Peres offered a defense of beleaguered Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, on the grounds that his rule has been...
Who Says Jews Don’t Have Soul?
By Beth Kissileff
No one could have predicted thirty years ago that the cantorial school at Hebrew Union College would one day be named for Debbie...
The Black Bus
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Anat Zuria has made her career exploring the stories of religious women on the margins of their world. Her latest work, The Black...
Yoo-hoo, Ms. Rivers!
by Amanda Walgrove
As she’d be the first to joke about, Joan Rivers has tough skin. While her 2010 documentary, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,...
The Hypocrisy of Boycotting
by Daniel Hoffman
Many European and American students are familiar with academic boycotts of Israel, campaigns which emerged in the United Kingdom in the midst of...