Jews, Jesus, and Georgetown
As Crucifixes go up on campus, the Georgetown community debates its identity (April , 1999)

A cappella in Action
Jewish student singing groups our hitting high notes across the country (April , 1999)

A Farewell to the Jewish Frat
It's time for fraternities to go, and the Jewish chapters should be the first to disband (April , 1999)

New Vices
In Your Face Jewish Humor (January , 1999)

How The Jewish Student Mind Works
Sex, The Drive for Success, and the New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (February , 1999)

The Mistakes of the March
The March of the Living and the Limits of a Holocaust-based Jewish Identity (October 1998)

My Life as a Shiksa Jew
What it's Like to be Jewish in a Gentile Body (September 1998)

Oslo at Five
A Young Person's Perspective (October 1998)

Piamenta Plunges into the Mainstream
Yossi Piamenta, Orthodox guitar virtuoso, snares Jimi Hendrix's old producer (October 1998)

Countering Conspicuous Consumption
(September 1998)

Using FDR's Legacy To Revive Jewish Campus Life
(March 1998)
"Bottom line: The Jewish community will use any excuse to get a bunch of Jews together for an event. The effort to keep people "doing Jewish", to use the current campus idiom, takes many forms. One of the more interesting is the Works Progress Administration approach."

When Is Sex Improper?
Rabbinical Students Struggle With Morality and Modernity (March 1998)
For many students at the seminary, these events raised questions about several issues, specifically a rabbi's right to privacy, the moral standards of rabbis, and the problems that modern society poses to Jews committed to halakhah.

Light, Camera, Interaction!
NYU's Jewish Center Opens Galleries for Campus Art (March 1998)
"Jewish self-expression should not be limited to Mezuzahs made from sculpy and Menorahs made of 2x4s. The fact that fantastic artists are exploring their Jewish identity as a major component in their creative work should tell us to pay attention!" noted NYU JCSC Fellow Karen Reigel.

Reflections on Monica's Bat Mitzvah
Orgins of A Presidential Scandal (March 1998)
"When she concluded her d'var torah, which recounted the story of Yael and Sisera, with the moral that it is a mitzvah for a Jewish girl to perform oral sex on the President of the United States, even the usually laid-back members of Congregation 90210 were shocked."

Orthodoxy, Feminism, and Overcrowding
The second annual conference proves that one year later there is still plenty to talk about (March 1998)
Wendy Amsellem established a women's Tefillah group at Harvard University. "College is a good place to explore feminism [because in college] you have so much authority [that] you're aware of when you don't have authority."

Taking The Plunge
The Am Echad/One People Jewish Unity Conference (March 1998)
"For want of a better term, we named it a "pluralism conference." In reality, it was a "pluralistic" conference, bringing together students from across the Jewish spectrum."

Who Is Kyle Broslofski?
South Park's Jewish Kid Hits The Big Time (February 1998)
"As Seinfeld says his goodbyes to "Must See TV", a foul-mouthed eight year-old is crafting his take-over of the small screen. Though he may not have Jerry's comic genius, receding hair line, or outrageous salary, he's got the word "Jewish" stamped across his resume and he's ready to make it big."

Kill Dracula and Other Solutions to Holocaust Denial
(February 1998)
"Those who rationalize abdication of a publisher¹s essential prerogative invoke freedom of speech; but they fail to understand freedom of the press‹also a First Amendment right‹a freedom to publish or not to publish as they wish."

Crossing The Mechitzah
(February 1998)
"In my peripheral vision, I noticed some of the male congregants demonstratively folding up their tallitot (prayer shawls) making it clear that for them the service was well and truly over. Yet others equally demonstratively pulled their tallitot taut around their shoulders, anxious to make the opposite, supportive, point."

From Currency To Community at the University of Michigan
(February 1998)
"To many it comes as a surprise that the project most successful in the past two years at engaging high percentages of Jewish students has been a fundraising campaign."

Living In Denial
Antisemitism and American Jewry (February 1998)
"The number of American Jews who find American anti-Semitism to be a serious problem almost doubled during the course of the 1980's, from 45 percent in 1983, to 85 percent in 1990. For every anti-Semite who disappears, America's Jews are ready and waiting to replace him or her with two imaginary offenders."

"Jew Make The Call"
(December 1997)
"Exactly what had just happened? I saw and heard an uninterrupted lineage of nonsense, passed down from previous generations and now delivered to another culture, another land. Had anyone taught these kids that it is not cool to impose your delusions on someone? Shouldn't Jews be more keenly aware of that, more than any other group, since Jewish communities stretched from Vilna to Addis Ababa and every point in between? Maybe not. I guess they cut that class and did Jive home-study."

Civil Rights Activism: A New Year's Resolution
(December 1997)
"Jewish student activists should take advantage of this fortuitous convergence of events to explore ways in which they can help to restore faith among people of color in our country's banks, schools, and justice system."

Confronting Christian Crusaders
What does Promise Keepers' popularity mean for Jews? (December 1997)
"As National Organization for Women (NOW) president Patricia Ireland pointed out at the 'Stand In The Gap' rally, 'There is a reason that Promise Keepers is having their rally in Washington with the Capitol as the backdrop. . . When members of Congress look out onto the Mall, they see the same thing I see‹hundreds of thousands of constituents and voters.'"

Jewish Fraternity Foibles
At Indiana University, ZBT scandal inflames campus (December 1997)
"One year shy of its fiftieth anniversary at Indiana University and its 100th anniversary nationally, the Jewish fraternity Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) has been hit with a scandal that threatens to linger for years to come."

Who's A Jew? (In High Heeled Shoes)
(December 1997)
"The only time I thought I had really blown it was during the kiddish after the Sabbath morning service. Apparently, in orthodox synagogues they don't find the ole flipping-the-lights-on-and-off-while-screaming-"earthquake" trick very funny. So much for the universal Jewish sense of humor."

Our Brother's Keeper
AIDS Peer Education In New York City (December 1997)
Anna Petelko, a freshman at Brooklyn College who joined the group because her Orthodox high school had no sex education and wanted to learn about HIV and AIDS, is impressed with the program's motto. "At the first session Dr. Bob [Zielony] wrote an old Chinese saying on the board: 'Tell me - I forget, Show me - I remember, Involve me - I understand.' That is really how we learn and internalize things. I am touched by the speakers who have come to share their stories, and especially by my co-educators, some of whom have lost people they love to AIDS.

Confessions Of A Synagogue Skinhead
(December 1997)
"Last weekend in Columbus Ohio around three hundred anti-fascism and anti-racism activists gathered to discuss our work in the last year and how to work together in the future. I was there as a visible kippa-wearing Jew. I'm also a Skinhead."

The Politics Of Religion In Israel: 1974
(December 1997)
"Although the present crisis has been resolved, in the future the failure of any single party to gain a parliamentary majority will result in a situation where a religious minority has disproportionate power and the possibility of imposing the precepts of orthodoxy on all Jewish Israelis."

The Politics Of Religion In Israel: 1997
(December 1997)
" While the notion of a halachic state may appeal to many religious Jews, I would humbly suggest that realization of such a flawed idea would threaten both the state, and-much more significantly-Judaism itself."

Idol Smasher
Interview with Marc Ribot (Part 2 of 2) (November 1997)
We pick up the second part of the interview with a discussion of the 1992 Radical New Jewish Culture Festival in Munich Germany which featured many of the most prominent artists from the downtown New York scene

Ivy League Makeover
Has Princeton's investment in Jewish life fallen on deaf ears? (November 1997)
"In the three years since it opened, the CJL has indeed revitalized Jewish life on Princeton's campus. Why then, in that same period, has Jewish undergraduate enrollment at Princeton dropped by one-third?"

The Wake Up Tour
A new student movement plans to tour North America encouraging Jewish activism (November 1997)
"This past May, a group of Canadian students studying in Jerusalem decided that the time had come to conclude their idealistic debates, cafe philosophizing and constant discussions enumerating the problems which have plagued the modern Jewish world..."

Women On The Wall
Celebrating the accomplishments of Jewish women in North America (November 1997)
Last year, through the joint efforts of Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project and the Jewish Women's Archive, an exciting new venture was launched to add a Jewish component to Women's History Month.

The New Puritanism
Is Dorm Life At Yale Immoral? (October 1997)
Press outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, Time, The Boston Globe, and The New Yorker have focused their gaze on New Haven after five Orthodox Jewish undergraduates threatened to file a suit against Yale. Prominent Washington attorney Nathan Lewin has agreed to take their case.

Conservatism Is Not A Religious Principle
(October 1997)
"Living in the Yale dorms may violate their conservative values‹namely segregation‹but is does not violate their religious principles."

Circumcision: A Dialogue
(October 1997)
"After much consideration, I have decided that I too am against unconsentual circumcision. And so I have decided that when my son reaches his eighth day, he will be allowed to make the decision for himself."

He Killed Your God
Interview with Marc Ribot (part 1 of 2) (October 1997)

The Souls Of Sephardi Folk
(October 1997)

Concert Reviews
Bob Dylan, The Klezmatics, and more (September 1997)
"Tanglewood, for those who don't know, is the summer home for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the musical home of the bourgeois oppressor class."

Herzl's Congress Turns 100
Young Jewish leaders find few spots on ballot (September 1997)
"For the first time, elections are open to anyone 18 or older who registered to vote earlier in the summer. The new voting age not only means that college students can vote, but they can also vote for their peers."

Rosa Parks Redux?
Israeli bus segregation is just the beginning (September 1997)
"When the New York Jewish Week asked feminist activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin what she thought of the new policy, she exclaimed that it evoked 'echoes of blacks sitting in the back of the bus . . .' For an American Jewish leadership who came of age during the Civil Rights movement, it will be difficult to understand the new policy any other way."

You Say You Want A Revolution?
(September 1997)
"Shouldn't the American Jewish establishment pressure all Jewish leaders, including Israeli politicians, to consistently condemn these violent antisemitic acts just as they pressure black leaders to condemn Farrakhan because of his antisemitic rhetoric?"

Union Power
Jewish students abroad run the show (February 1997)
When a speaker recently heralded them as "the future of the Jewish people," the assembled members of the French Union of Jewish Students (Union des Etudiants Juifs de France - UEJF) stood up and left the room. Vanessa Bressler, a student at Sciences Politiques in Paris and the chair of UEJF explained, "They have to know that we're not the future‹we're the present and they have to deal with us now. If they won't deal with us now, we're not going to listen to them."

Lectures, Midterms, and Intifada
A Look Inside the West Bank's Birzeit University (January 1997)
"It often takes a Palestinian five, six, even seven years to finish. And it's not because he's stupid. It is because we sit in jails and when we are free our school is closed."

Herzl Redivivus
(January 1997)
"Netanyahu, in his first address as Prime Minister to the largest gathering of American Jewish leaders, is appealing to American Jews' pocketbooks, not their ideology."

Profile: Ishmail Khalidi
A Modern Bedouin (March 1997)
Since graduating from Tel Aviv University Ishmail has dedicated his life to sharing the rich culture and tradition of the Bedouin with the rest of the world. He wants to share his love for Israel, which he calls "the best country in the world," and would like people to understand that "the Israeli People are all people who live in Israel," not only Jews.

The "What is Jewish Music?" Debate
News From The Front (March 1997)
"The fight itself only lasted for two minutes and 30 seconds, climaxing when the lead singer of "Jews with Lice" wrapped his microphone around a member of the JDL's head in the same manner that one puts on tefillin."

Albright-Inspired Outings
(March 1997)
"The recent revelation of Madeline Albright's Jewish roots has once-and-for-all shattered the line between Jew and non-Jew. If a good Catholic like the Secretary of State can turn out to be Jewish, then anyone is fair game."

Ritual To Habitual
Drugs, Alchohol, and Jewish Students (March 1997)
Do Jews still drink the way they once did? Stacie Garnett examines the state of Jewish drinking on campus in 1997.

The Enemy Of My Enemy . . .
(March 1997)
"One elderly gentleman proudly informed me that this country did not persecute the Jews during World War II and that "We too were sent to concentration camps" run by the Croatians, under the auspices of the Nazis. I was reminded of our shared conflict with the Muslims and the Germans almost fifty times."

Loose Lips Sink Ships
(March 1997)
"Our leaders always remember to preach about the dangers of intermarriage and assimilation, yet somehow many forget to counter these castigations with a more regular emphasis on the basic and profound importance of doing good."

The Helicopter Disaster
(April 1997)
"Small windows into the lives of each of the young men who died were shared with the nation by their families in the form of home video clips."

Profile: Rebecca Gutterman
(April 1997)
"Rebecca Gutterman has one of those soft and pleasant speaking voices, evidence of her "good-Jewish-girl" upbringing. But when she steps into her role as a storyteller she is a powerful presence on stage, displaying strength through her quirkiness, irony and humor."

Are You White, Or Are You A Whitey?
Reflecting on the Oscars (April 1997)
"Even Andrew Lloyd Weber, that saucy Brit, won an Oscar for turning the real life story of a brutal totalitarian dictatorship into a sanitized rock opera. Bravo whitey!"

Inside Hillel's Closet
(April 1997)
"Unless Hillel staff and students are intentional in their efforts to create a welcoming atmosphere and climate, gay Jews will continue to remain on the periphery of the Jewish community. . ."

A Farewell to the Jewish Frat (April , 1999)

Oslo at Five (October 1998)

Oslo at Five (October 1998)

Using FDR's Legacy To Revive Jewish Campus Life (March 1998)

Kill Dracula and Other Solutions to Holocaust Denial (February 1998)

Civil Rights Activism: A New Year's Resolution (December 1997)

Ask The Super Jew (November 1997)

Move Over Manischewitz (November 1997)

Sex, Miscegenation, and the Intermarriage Debate (November 1997)

A Woman at the Wall (April 1997)

Take My Wife! Please! (April 1997)