Tova Benjamin Bombs
Louder Than a Bomb is Chicago’s High School Poetry competition, though that is not the spirit found among its participants. Founded by local poet, author and jew Kevin Coval, Louder Than a Bomb is...
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NewCAJE3 announced
The Jewish educator’s love-in and conference, resurrected and reinvigorated, now known as NewCAJE holds its 3rd annual conferences this year August 5-8th at Montclair State University in New Jersey,...
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Over? Did you say over?
It wasn’t over when the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor, but it is for the Gamma Chapter of AEPi at Penn. The oft quoted words of Animal House’s Brutus hang in the air as, in the wake of serious hazing...
View ArticleDay schools want to drop out of USCJ
Back in June, the leaders of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism tried to defund their college program, Koach. While the USCJ board delayed this step, it seems like USCJ is still trying to...
View ArticleApplications are now online for Selah San Francisco Bay Area Cohort
Applications are now online for Selah San Francisco Bay Area Cohort 11! The Selah Leadership Program is a collaboration between the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Bend the Arc, in partnership with the...
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Attracting Interfaith Families to the Conservative Movement Day Schools
Cross-posted. This was originally posted on the InterfaithFamily Network Blog. Last week, the Rabbinical Assembly (the rabbis’ guild for the Conservative movement), sent out a press release. Together...
View ArticleOrder of the Seder for Tu Bishvat
I know what you’re thinking – you want to refer to the 4 worlds in your Tu Bishvat seder but they’re confusing and…oh, if there were only a song that allowed you to sing through the four worlds (like...
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There is Probably Something in the Food, or, a Discussion about Birthright...
Sandy Fox is a graduate student in History and Israel Studies at NYU, studying the history of Israeli education and youth culture. Her work includes research on the history and politics of Israeli and...
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Emily Unger: “Rather than quietly drift away from Hillel, we decided to stay...
This is an interview with Emily Unger, a Harvard senior majoring in biology, and the former chair of the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance, the student group organizing a protest against...
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Monday Nights in Brooklyn: Seeking Peace and Justice with Dasi Fruchter
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View ArticleNew Jewish Gap Year Program in Portland, Oregon
This is a guest post by William Deresiewicz, a board member of Tivnu: Building Justice. Bill is a writer and former English professor at Yale. Who says that working with your hands can’t be a form of...
View ArticleHallel on Yom Ha’Atzmaut: Maintaining Distinct Identities
This guest post by Eliana Fishman is part of an ongoing dialogue, which starts with the original post by Eliana Fishman and continues with the response by Raphael Magarik. Thank you so much, Raffi, for...
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Open Hillel Update
Yesterday, the Open Hillel campaign, a student led initiative to change policies around permitted conversations on Israel on campus, presented their petition ( 801 signatures strong as of this...
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Since When did Jewish Education Become Everybody’s Punching Bag?
By Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman Just in time for back-to-school shopping and your first Hebrew school tuition ACH auto-withdrawal, two Jewish websites have let loose their bloggers to take a dump on...
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This is Not an Ulpan
While I deeply love learning Hebrew, ulpan often hurts my heart. I can’t help but bristle at prejudicial Israeli attitudes that go against the anti-oppression work that bring many of us there. Be they...
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The Jewish Women’s Archive and Prozdor Announce the Rising Voices Fellowship...
from the Jewish Women’s Archive Blog Prozdor and the Jewish Women’s Archive announce the pilot year of the Rising Voices Fellowship! The fellowship is open to female-identified teens in grades 11 and...
View ArticleThe impact of Hebrew School
Thanks to the beginning of the school year, there has been the usual crop of published opinions regarding Jewish schooling options. The general consensus of opinions regarding Hebrew schools seems to...
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Kari Hochwald: “Living in Israel on this program allowed me to view it on my...
Kari Hochwald is 23 years old and from Jacksonville, Florida. She graduated from the University of Florida in 2012 with a degree in English. She spent the past year volunteering in Israel through...
View ArticleBeaking Bad
New Thanksgivukah cartoon for American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
View ArticleA Long Story Short: On the Radical Mandela, my Radical Parents and a Shoe Museum
This originally appeared at allthesedays.org on December 6th, 2013. I’ve been reading an array of obituaries and reflections on Mandela and his legacy since late Thursday night when I heard that he...
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