Hannah, Harvard University My family, unlike so many others, thank God has never been without a home or basic necessities. However, we are far from the wealthiest family in the Greater Philadelphia area Jewish community. …
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Gendering Religious Experience: A Reflection
Elana Burack, University of Pennsylvania On any given Friday night, you can find me on the third floor of Penn Hillel in the Conservative Jewish Community’s (CJC) evening services. You’ll see me swaying and singing …
SUGYA OF THE MONTH: Shattering Preconceptions in BT Chagigah 26a
David Quintas, Columbia University Most of my experience learning the final chapter of Tractate Chagigah was an extremely frustrating one. The chapter primarily deals with Tumah and Tahara, laws of ritual purity and impurity. The …
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Talking About Our Race Problem
Saadiah McIntosh, Brandeis University My name is Saadiah Benzion McIntosh, and I am a proud African American and Jewish man. I’ve had the distinct privilege to attend some fine Jewish institutions in my hometown …
Hannah Arendt in the Age of Identity Politics
Elon Swartz, Princeton University Sometime last winter at the Princeton Center for Jewish Life, I was eavesdropping on a political conversation between two friends, one liberal and the other conservative. The liberal friend was …
Make America Mate Again: What Eroticism Has to do with the Family Unit
Celeste Marcus, University of Pennsylvania An analytic and continental philosopher are arguing. The analytic philosopher says, “You’re being insufficiently clear!” The continental philosopher says, “You’re being insufficiently!” I spend too much time asking myself whether …
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Jill Golub
Jill Golub is a rising Senior at the University of Pennsylvania, studying European history and english, with a creative writing concentration. She is currently writing a senior honors thesis on a 19th century historian and …
