One Sky, One People: The American Jewish Response to the War in Israel
BY MATEA FRIEBER My great-grandfather, Chaim Frieber, arrived in New York from Krakow as a young man at the turn of the twentieth century. Recently, my mother shared with me…
The New York Times: A Bias Analysis
BY ADIEL RAMIREZ The New York Times is one of the most trusted news sources in the world. It is the newspaper of record in the United States. Any reputable…
From the Beginning to the End
BY ARI UNGER It doesn’t always make senseBut it doesn’t always have toI guess that’s the beautyOf lasting so longOf having little holes in your storySo it sounds like a…
The “Neighborhood Bully” Returns
BY EMUNA NAIDITCH What happens in the Jewish state affects each and every Jew. As poet Yehuda Halevi famously said, “My heart is in the east, but I am at…
Zakhor, or Where Is Our History?
BY MAYA TRATT For all the talk about how Jews are the “People of the Book,” there is a chapter that seems conspicuously missing—where is Jewish history? A ubiquitous facet…
I.L. Peretz’s Legacy: Challenging Jewish Passivity
BY BENJIE KATZ If any American has heard of the shtetl, the little market towns where a significant portion of Jews in Eastern Europe lived until the early twentieth century,…
Jewish Resilience: Taught By Our Tradition and Tested By Our History
BY ADIN LINDEN The over three thousand years of Jewish history has often been uneasy and tumultuous. Crisis has never been too far from the Jewish people. At times, those…
Reframing the Debate Around Israel’s Obligations to Gazan Civilians
BY JACOB SHAYEFAR “Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your…
Jewish Resilience in Times of Persecution and Prosperity, From Our Forefathers to the Present
BY JUDAH MARCUS Resilience is a virtue that has been associated with Judaism for countless generations. Throughout Tanakh, there are a great number of stories about our ancestors demonstrating strength…
Ashkenazi Migration to London: Building a Jewish Community in the East End
BY EMILY BUNDER When my ancestors left Ukraine during the 1905 Kyiv pogrom, my father’s side fled to Brooklyn, New York and began a life there. However, my mother’s side…