It’s a rainy, dark, cold Monday night, and I am surrounded by an Ethnomusicology graduate student from France, a freshman Dance and Neuroscience double-major,…
They aren’t my grandparents, I’m adopted
I was four years old when I was told that I had been adopted when I was a baby. Not that a four year…
Baseless love – the only solution to its antithesis
Bus rides- a somewhat stressful experience. First, comes the frantic search for my bus card, moving quickly so not to hold up the line…
When #MeToo isn’t enough
When we hear stories about men intimidating women or touching them inappropriately we imagine what we would do if we were caught up in…
Needing Help
When I was 11-years-old I went to the first Bat Mitzva of our class. Well, I went to the shul where it was taking…
Guided by a very Jewish value
I met Mr. E at a poetry reading. Hong Kong’s literary scene is small and two Americans reading in one evening was an unusual…
Five Feminist Principles to Strengthen Jewish Organizations Today
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, countless women have come forward to share their accounts of harassment, sexual assault, and abuse at…
Living with Epilepsy
I live with one of the most unpredictable conditions in the medical world – Epilepsy. I’ve encountered four stages over the last thirty years…
International Collaboration in Jewish Innovation
One of us is a Jewish professional from New York and the other, a lay leader from Melbourne. We are both Schusterman Fellows and over the course of two intense weeks we forged a connection that highlights the potential of international collaboration in Jewish innovation. To be sure, we are at the beginning of exploring
The Hidden Agenda of the Patriarchy
I'm at a party. I only know the host. I decide to start to chat to a boy there. He's friendly and we talk for a while. When it's time for me to leave, I bid goodbye to him and I give my friend and her mother a quick hug and turn to leave, when