Joshua Lancman, at The Blogs

Jun 11, 2024, 6:43 PM

“I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.” -Shai Agnon Much of this article was written before Israel’s most recent war with...

Feb 18, 2024, 8:48 AM

The Least Unsafe: A Time of Jewish College-Touring

Early on in junior year, I worked out a process to touring colleges: Email the rabbi (Chabad or Hillel) ahead of time to find a Jewish student to host me for the weekend. This never failed, and usually my...

Oct 12, 2023, 11:02 PM

What Do We Call the War?

World War One was called “the War to End All Wars” as it was happening; that didn’t age well. World War Two was simply “the War” or the “European War,” both of which are entirely undescriptive. And there are...

Oct 4, 2023, 7:43 PM

How Do We Understand the Yom Kippur War?- ‘Golda’

Yosi ben Hanan has one of those life stories you cannot help but think was made for the movies. A war hero in 1967; featured on the cover of LIFE Magazine holding an AK-47 with the caption “Israeli Soldier...

About Me

Josh Lancman is an incoming fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and incoming member of Cornell University's class of 2029. He has been published in the GOA Flame (for which he was also the Editor-in-Chief), GOA Nuts & Raisins Literary Magazine, Youth Civics Initiative, YouthComm Magazine, and is self-published on Letterboxd. He is from West Orange, New Jersey.