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Ellen Ginsberg Simon

Nov 12, 2024, 3:52 AM

In the past week, dejected Harris supporters have licked their wounds and commiserated over the purported dismal fate of the nation. Such is only natural when one is committed to a candidate and feels the sting of loss and...

Oct 8, 2024, 5:04 AM

The New Iron Wall

The only way to reach the point where “both peoples can live together in peace, like good neighbors,” is to create an impregnable iron wall - a strong power that can stand against the many regional enemies to Zionism....

Sep 18, 2024, 10:05 PM

We Are One Family

View from inside the Jewish Memorial at Dachau; Munich, Germany. Photo taken by Ellen G. Simon

Perspective. I had mine checked this week. We live in remarkably stressful times. I am sure Billy Joel would say that the fire was always burning since the world's been turning. But, suffice it to say, as a people, we Jews...

Aug 5, 2024, 10:29 PM

I am 5

Participants lift placards and pictures during a gathering in Tel Aviv on August 5, 2024, to mark the fifth birthday of Ariel Bibas, held hostage in Gaza, and to call for the liberation of him and his family. Ariel, his baby brother Kfir, who would now be one year old, were kidnapped along with their parents Yarden and Shiri from their homes in Nir Oz kibbutz community near Gaza on October 7 when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

For Ariel Today is my birthday, but I do not know it. The days and nights bleed together in fog of dank darkness, In a tunnel beneath life. Life that continues, Feet marching, running, skipping Above me. Without me. My hopes, dreams, laughter Swallowed in a black hole Whose...

Apr 24, 2024, 9:03 PM

Dayenu!

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 23: "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" at Columbia University entered its one-week in New York, United States on April 23, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Enough! How much more can we take? Every day seems to present some new horror that tests the limits of our emotional tolerance. We spend a weekend holding our breath as Iran rains unprecedented fire at our family in Israel and then...

Mar 12, 2024, 8:24 AM

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Bloody hands, bloody fools

A red pin with an orange hand, worn by some celebrities at the Academy Awards event on March 10, 2024, to show support for Palestinians in Gaza and call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. (via X, formerly Twitter)

That symbol the Hollywood glitterati sported is rooted in the horrific lynching of two Israeli men by a Palestinian mob

Mar 6, 2024, 3:41 PM

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On International Women’s Day, where are they?

Karina Ariev, Shiri Bibas, Daniella Gilboa, Emily Damari, Carmel Gat, Romi Gonen, Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Eden Yerushalmi, Amit Buskila, Noa Argamani, Arbel Yehud, Agam Berger, Doron Steinbrecher. (courtesy)

For a moment, I try to conjure the experiences of each woman held captive by Hamas – and hope they know we have not forgotten them

Feb 6, 2024, 7:29 PM

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A university president with a principled stand on BDS

Brown University students are assembling on the Main Green at noon daily to rally in support of BDS and the 19 hunger strikers. Photo by Jennifer Lowe.

Brown University President Christina Paxson could have hid behind policy when she rejected students' divestment demands

Jan 5, 2024, 1:20 AM

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Personal responsibility and moral courage: Claudine Gay’s failings as a leader

Claudia Gay. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

America’s universities need a new cadre of leadership: Those who aren't afraid of debate or difficult topics, and who gladly represent everyone on campus

Nov 23, 2023, 4:50 AM

Brown University Must Ban SJP

Illustrative. Students sitting in the College Green outside Sayles Hall on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

I must begin this piece by expressing my deep love for Brown University. My time there formed so much of who I am as a human being and an intellectual. While I wash my hands of my other alma...

About Me

Ellen Ginsberg Simon is an attorney and compliance professional. She has an M.Phil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University and is also a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School.