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Golda Daphna

Let’s bring Moshiach

Jul 7, 2024, 4:35 AM

With permission from my dear friend in the house where her beautiful and incredible grandmother, Bracha Levinson z'l, perished. May we continue to inspire others with her memory.

It was an hour before Shabbat. I sat on the couch finishing up an assignment from my commander. The previous day I had “עבודות רס”ר,” and was permitted to go home and shower. I was given the work from...

Dec 1, 2021, 11:44 AM

Channukah and the Quiet

I used to laugh when my mom would ask to stay by the Menorah candles. She would want to sit and stare until the wick drowned. I would rush to the family computer room and put on a Chanukah...

Jul 15, 2021, 12:14 AM

Under the black hat’s brim

Whispers. Maybe it all started with Channah. The foundation of Amida. Maybe it all started with the Kohen Hagadol. Judging her silent tefillah. Kisheira. Kisara. Deemed drunk, worthless, demarked, when Hashem labeled her holy. Maybe, whispers are all we...

Nov 18, 2020, 7:18 PM

Are You Marriage Material?

When the person I had been dating for over a year and thought I was going to marry told me he didn’t want Orthodox Judaism or me in a four-minute FaceTime, my first thought was “Oh, this is a...

Apr 1, 2020, 10:09 PM

Hating Jews is Unorthodox

Lately, the cursor on my computer seems to taunt me. At various times during this year, it would blink quickly on a google document, before I resigned and shut it off. The need festered, bubbled, I’d write down thoughts,...

Jul 18, 2019, 3:00 PM

Pinchas, Tsnius, and the Perils of Intolerance

“את יהודיה?” The elderly women in black questioned me as I FaceTimed my boyfriend, "Are you Jewish?" I was showing him the Kotel wordlessly as I departed the shroud of its comfort. The eternal bricks of the Western Wall...

Jun 2, 2019, 10:37 AM

How Paratroopers Fly

Anyone that went to MMY with me can affirm I went to the Kotel almost every single day. Overcome by the childhood stories of its appreciation, I left behind what my mother coined, "My best friend."

Early Friday morning, I wrote an impassioned article. In the craze of anger and resentment I journaled about women who harassed me, insulted me, and wanted to tear me down. I hypothesized about its roots in competition, jealousy, and...

May 26, 2019, 11:26 PM

I’m sorry

I do not only go to YU for controversy. The proof is in the pose.

Hello. My name is Golda Daphna and I am unworthy. I am unworthy to write a piece on the importance of women. I am unworthy to comment on a University I do not attend. I am unworthy to write...

May 23, 2019, 9:31 PM

Separate is NOT Equal

As long as I can remember, I’ve tasted my father’s culinary experiments: blown up pizzas, fish falafel balls, tahini combinations, and endless savory meatballs. For as long as I can remember, my father has become bored of idle Shabbos...

May 9, 2019, 11:20 PM

Should Israel Be Grateful for Anti-Semites?

Every Saturday, Jewish families return home from shul. Men loosen their ties, women slip off their high-heels, and children race down the stairs in their pajamas. Lunch begins. In a yellow house on Long Island, a man removes his...

About Me

I grew up as a Bais Yaakov girl in the Five Towns before I transitioned into a modern-orthodox teenager at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls. Now, at Columbia University, I write as a Jew who wishes to express problems the collective Jewish world should address.

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