Chloe Levian

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Jul 16, 2020, 11:30 PM

Dear Bari Weiss

Since October 27, 2018, I’ve been in awe of you. I’m sure you've done incredible things before then, but that was when I, as a newly 18- year old Persian Jewish freshman in college, was first introduced to you and your writing. At the...

Jun 2, 2020, 12:06 AM

Learning at home: More benefits than you can imagine

This interesting and unusual time in the world has brought many moments of concern for the Jewish community. To name a few: being internationally scapegoated for causing the coronavirus; comparing just one week of quarantine to Anne Frank having to...

Mar 9, 2020, 11:49 PM

It is pronounced ee-RON not i-RAN

I am a Persian Jewish American and I live in a society that usually allows me to embrace all three aspects of my identity. Yet, it has become common knowledge that all Jews are all white, although many of...

Dec 4, 2019, 7:34 PM

2 tragedies in one lifetime

At the I-ACT conference held Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during March 24-27, 2019, I had the honor of hearing Holocaust survivor Judah Samet speak. Samet shared how he survived the Bergen Belsen concentration camp by eating the lice on peoples’ heads....

Nov 13, 2019, 8:55 PM

Don’t buy from the Jew

I am a Jew. By those words, you may already be making assumptions…maybe I have a big nose, or my parents are wealthy, or I am a Zionist. Or you could also be thinking that I have horns, a...

Oct 25, 2019, 11:27 AM

Stronger than hate

October 27, 2018, the morning after I celebrated my 18th birthday, I opened up Facebook to see that there was a shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue. “Oh, another shooting," I thought. It was not until I was...

Oct 15, 2019, 9:11 AM

How can we defeat anti-Semitism

October 9, 2019: While I was praying in synagogue on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, a terrorist tried shooting congregants in a similar service in Halle, Germany. Frustrated by the bolted door -- an unfortunate...

Oct 4, 2019, 9:33 AM

A Community of Chesed

Chesed is my favorite word in the Hebrew language. It means kindness or love between people and/ or loving kindness. In the new year, as a community, we need more Chesed. Due to cultural diasporas, the rise of different sectors of...

Sep 28, 2019, 1:26 AM

5780 Shades of Gray

The oppressed and the oppressor, the underdog and the upper dog; in 2019 we live in a fabricated dichotomy.

Sep 25, 2019, 10:03 PM

Dear Antisemitism

Dear Antisemitism, I never thought that you and I would dance the tango. I thought you only existed in the past like in blood libels, Nazi Germany, or my parents fleeing their home in Iran. But you, the pesky virus that...

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About Me

Chloe Levian is a Jewish student leader at UCLA. She is the President of Bruins for Israel, the Campus Communications Coordinator for BIPAC, and on the Y&S Nazarian Israel Center Student Advisory Council. She is also the StandWithUs Alumni Network Liaison, a Hasbara Fellow, a Ronald S. Lauder Fellow, and a proud member of Iranian American Jews for Racial Justice. Chloe is passionate about Israel advocacy, combating antisemitism, and social justice.