Avidan Halivni

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May 6, 2016, 8:33 AM

Now We Are Free…But Are They?

It is often too easy to forget the lessons of Passover after the holiday is over, the first bites of leavened bread washing away the taste of affliction from our mouths. We are satisfied with where we have left...

Jan 20, 2016, 11:04 AM

Choose Sinai, not Auschwitz

Jews may come by their persecution complex honestly, but it gets in the way of building a more ethical society

Jan 2, 2015, 12:33 AM

New USY Standards: Peshat, yes; but Derash, too

I, too, see the impending doom of Conservative Judaism in the events of the past week. I scanned the articles that surfaced on news sites and elbowed their way to the top of my Facebook newsfeed and resigned myself...

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About Me

Avidan Halivni, 19, from Deerfield, Illinois, is in his first year at Columbia University after spending a year at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa.