Andrea Karshan, at The Blogs

Oct 6, 2024, 7:16 AM

I am a Jewish woman living in Chabad Crown Heights. And I know davening in synagogue is important. Especially during times like Rosh Hashanah when listening to the shofar being blown is required. But what do you do if...

Jan 15, 2024, 7:32 AM

BDS Hurts Palestinian Workers with Their Boycotts

I heard about the horrible effects BDS boycotts could have on Palestinian workers when Bassem Eid and Erez Zadok of Aviv Peace-Impact visited my college in 2016. The things they talked about back then are still relevant today. But...

Jul 14, 2023, 10:48 AM

Twitter Spaces: Choose One Wisely

So I recently started spending more time on Twitter. And I soon realized the only difference between TikTok and Twitter is on Twitter the nutjobs on there are professionals. So I started going into Twittter Spaces. It's like an audio...

Jun 2, 2023, 7:48 AM

Great day tours to go on while in Israel

I went on a bunch of really great day tours during my trip to Israel. And I wanted to share them with you because I felt like they could really help make your trip to Israel special. These day...

Dec 3, 2022, 10:43 AM

Good and Reliable English News Sources on Israel Palestine

A lot of people get their "news" on Israel Palestine from really bad sources. They go on Instagram and look at Eye on Palestine or they read Al Jazeera. Eye on Palestine is known for using pictures from the...

Aug 23, 2022, 7:27 AM

How to Have a More Constructive Conversation on Israel Palestine

I have been doing Israel Palestine TikTok Lives for many months now, and I found that conversations between Palestinians and Jews often took an ugly turn and became very unproductive when certain rhetoric is used by Israelis and Palestinians....

Aug 19, 2022, 9:37 AM

What I learned from Palestinians on TikTok

I did Israel-Palestine TikTok Lives for about three months. I was doing them sometimes 12-14 hours a day. Sometimes I was up till 5 -7 am so I could be up when Israelis and Palestinians living in Israel-Palestine could...

Aug 18, 2022, 2:07 AM

Israel Palestine: My Story

I was never really that passionate about Israel stuff even though I grew up with a father who was very much a Zionist and a big supporter of Israel. And when I was a child I used to sit...

Apr 22, 2022, 12:35 AM

‘In each and every generation a person must see himself as if he personally left Egypt.’

Everyone has their Egypt that they face in their life, that one really really bad struggle. Some people have several Egypts. I would say I had a few Egypts. And I had a few exoduses from those Egypts. But...

Jul 25, 2019, 3:09 AM

The Ageism of Jewish Events

I am so tired of being told that I am too old for Jewish events. Enough with Jewish events for Jews in their 20s and 30s.There are tons of those. They need to make more Jewish events for single...

About Me

Andrea Karshan is a Jew currently living in Chabad Crown Heights. She was born a Patrilineal Jew to a secular Jewish family with a Jewish father and Jewish stepmother. She then became Christian, and then was a Muslim for 13 years. She then did an Orthodox conversion to Judaism. She is passionate about Judaism and loves being a Lubavitcher. She has three Muslim kids from her previous marriage to a Pakistani. And she fights hard to combat Islamophobia and Antisemitism. And she is pro-Israel pro-Palestine pro-peace pro-truth activist.