Campus Protests in the Voices of the Students Who Experienced Them
Students at Columbia, UCLA, and Tufts offer first-hand accounts of pro-Palestinian protests, campus encampments and antisemitism.
Letter from Berkeley | What Do Campus Encampment Protesters Really Want?
Noah Phillips visits the University of California-Berkeley campus and discovers the limitations of dialogue.
Opinion | Why I Cannot Celebrate Mother’s Day 2024 in New York City
I have no doubt that the sweaty, swaying kids on campus believed that they had found their Vietnam. Too bad their Vietnam was my 1932 Reichstag elections.
Five Players in the Campus Protest Showdown
Who’s seizing the moment of U.S. campus protests against Gaza war, who’s holding the key, who’s the tragic hero, favorite villain and more.
From the Newsletter | A Visit to the GW Protest Encampment
It all feels very important and simultaneously exasperating and hard to navigate.
Jewish and Palestinian Teens Write—and Brave the United States—Together
Digital Editor Noah Phillips discovered that the six Israeli teenagers’ biggest fear was facing polarization in the United States.
The Mystery of the Cairo Codex: On the Trail of an Ancient Manuscript
For nearly 1,000 years, Cairo’s Karaites guarded one of the world’s most Legendary Hebrew manuscripts. Thirty years ago, it vanished…
The Conversation
Fania Oz-Salzberger’s column “A Quick Guide to Zionism in Hard Times” quickly garnered widespread attention.
Seven Modern Additions to the Seder Plate
In recent years, a number of new Passover items have been adopted—or at least proposed—to include in and around the traditional seder plate.
Jeff Michaels: Concerned About America’s Economy
“We have spending that is essentially recession or depression-level spending, and neither administration has seemed willing to address those issues.”
Meirav Solomon: Biden is the Only Moral Answer
“I’ll still be voting for Biden because there’s no other candidate I can actually morally and ethically vote for given the state of the world.”
Deb Kolodny: Recognizing a Climate Catastrophe
“We also need to talk about climate refugees … Because at this point, disaster isn’t just coming. Disaster is here.”