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VIEWPOINT: Fight Hate with Pride

VIEWPOINT: Fight Hate with Pride

By Joseph Abergel and Max Paley February 4, 2023

CW: This article discusses antisemitism and violence against Jewish communities. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources. On Jan. 23, a student found antisemitic graffiti...

STEKOL: Reimagine Justice

STEKOL: Reimagine Justice

By Rebecca Stekol June 30, 2020

The Song of Songs is one of my favorite books in the Hebrew Bible, with an empowered female narrator speaking openly about sexuality and love in a poetic style unseen in the rest of the Scripture. However,...

STEKOL: Find Justice in Holy Texts

STEKOL: Find Justice in Holy Texts

By Rebecca Stekol June 9, 2020

As I scrolled through Twitter, filled with rage at recent events, I came across a tweet that quoted chapter 31 of the book of Jeremiah: “A cry is heard in Ramah — Wailing, bitter weeping — Rachel...

STEKOL: Stop Marginalizing Religious Women

STEKOL: Stop Marginalizing Religious Women

By Rebecca Stekol May 26, 2020

As an American Jew, I am mortified, fearful and angry about the rise of antisemitism in the United States. While many news outlets — The New York Times, The Times of Israel and The Boston Herald, to...

KABOT: Bridging Differences Through Inquiry

KABOT: Bridging Differences Through Inquiry

By Carly Kabot September 13, 2019

Who I am as both a Jew and a person begins with my grandparents’ bookshelf. Their bookshelf was my first window to my Jewish heritage, with stories that took me from the Old City of Jerusalem to the...

BARER: Engaging in Productive Disagreement

BARER: Engaging in Productive Disagreement

By Rabbi Benjamin Barer December 7, 2018

Discourse about the pressing issues of our day — from feminism and religious liberty to climate change and antisemitism — models a profound lack of respect and goodwill. The ways in which I consume...

VIEWPOINT: Judaism Encourages Free, Responsible Speech

VIEWPOINT: Judaism Encourages Free, Responsible Speech

By Rabbi Rachel Gartner October 19, 2018

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...

Former ADL Director Attributes Rise in Anti-Semitism to Trump

By Alexandra Bowman October 15, 2018

President Donald Trump’s election in 2016 inspired a growth of anti-Semitism, said American Defamation League National Director Emeritus and Holocaust survivor Abraham Foxman at an event Oct. 10 in the...

COHEN: Clinging to the Remains of Coexistence

By Jeremy Cohen August 29, 2018

The bazaars of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, play host to a symphony of languages. Melons are bought and sold with boisterous exchanges in Uzbek and Tajik. Ceramic salesmen hawk their blue-glazed teacups in Russian,...

VIEWPOINT: Bigotry, a Recurring History

By Jonathan Muhlrad December 2, 2016

I am not an alarmist. But after the recent presidential election, my attitude may have changed. President-elect Donald Trump has turned minority groups into targets for discrimination by taking advantage...

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Ruth Gavison talked about Judaism in Israel.

Professor Discusses Judaism’s Role in Israel

By Cooper Logerfo October 31, 2014

Ruth Gavison, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a founding member of the Israel Association for Civil Rights, spoke about the Jewishness of Israel and its implications Wednesday in...

AEPi Shows Solidarity With Emory

By Molly Simio October 7, 2014

After the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house at Emory University was vandalized with swastikas on Sunday following Yom Kippur, the Georgetown chapter of AEPi will wear blue on Tuesday in solidarity and...

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