Georgetown University Campus Ministry announced May 21 the appointments of a new director for Dharmic Life and Hindu spiritual advisor and a new director for Jewish Life beginning Aug. 1.
Fr. Mark Bosco,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
