For the first time since she joined the Georgetown University community in 2011, Rabbi Rachel Gartner’s annual “Welcome Back” Shabbat on Aug. 28 did not occur in person on Georgetown’s campus....
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, a 20th-century leader of Jewish thought, once taught that U.S. Jews stand with one foot in the U.S. civilization and one foot in the Jewish civilization.
In my experience, the...
Like all types of bias, anti-Jewish speech takes different forms. Acts we have seen on campus this year, like the swastika carved onto an elevator door and white nationalist flyers strewn on campus, are...
The defacement of a bathroom wall with racially charged messages — including the letters “KKK” and a swastika — in a Georgetown University Medical Center building is being investigated as a hate...
Director of Muslim Chaplaincy Imam Yahya Hendi and Director of Jewish Chaplaincy Rabbi Rachel Gartner discussed the difficulty of interpreting religious text and their societal role in an interfaith...
