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Apr 9, 2015, 6:53 AM

When Enough Is Enough: Attention Generation Y

As part of Generation Y, we must explore the radical imagination; “we need to open ourselves to the possibility that the world could be radically different. We need to refuse to be conscripted to the reproduction of injustice, and...

Jan 19, 2015, 5:33 AM

I Traveled to Poland

I traveled to Poland to discover my history I ended up receiving the very brutal truth I traveled to Poland to discover my history I became eyewitness to concentration camps that I had only read about in books I traveled to Poland to...

Dec 8, 2014, 9:17 AM

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

It is true... I seek out adventure; I am spontaneous, I try and find the meaning in all things, and I have been guilty like others before me, of traveling to a different country to do just that. Wanderers are...

Dec 3, 2014, 9:51 AM

Conventional is Boring and a Waste of My Time

If you ask me if we are doing what we actually want to be doing, I’d have to say, for the most part, no, no we are not. If you asked me if society is determining our fate, our...

Nov 19, 2014, 9:02 AM

Be Obsessed With Good And Horrified By Evil

This opinion column is dedicated in righteous memory of Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, Rabbi Calman Levine, Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky, Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Zidan Saif - May their memories be a blessing. "Go to yourself." It is a command to Abraham,...

Oct 24, 2014, 9:20 AM

It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn

See, we are living in a world, a world where terror exists. Where terrorists - bitter, brainwashed, and bloodthirsty, are so angry and so full of hate that they are willing to drive a motor vehicle head on, directly,...

Oct 7, 2014, 11:18 PM

A Year of Conversation, A Year of Sharing Experiences

As I head to class each day, I watch the flooded sidewalks of my Penn State campus filled with students walking silently side by side to class. I walk among my fellow students, many of whom I will never...

Oct 2, 2014, 9:16 AM

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I?”

Self-reflection. Between the 10 days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we reflect. Who are we? Who are we really? We are made up and composed of many parts. But at our utmost and truest identity, at our core,...

Aug 15, 2014, 12:48 AM

Israel Advocacy: Your Network Is Your Networth

I arrived in Boston Massachusetts on August 10th to attend The David Project Relationship Building Institute conference. At this conference were student attendees from all across the United States as well as Canada. Throughout the four-day conference, we discussed...

Jul 23, 2014, 7:46 AM

Slowly, slowly, I stood in a silent space in the blazing heat in a moment in time and prayed at the Kotel. Slowly, slowly I packed my things, said good-bye to my friends and good-bye to my 5 by...

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About Me

Shayna Friedman is the Social Media Manager at the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest New Jersey. A recent graduate from Penn State University where she grew the Student Supporting Israel chapter, she works towards navigating the Social Media realm, exploring what it means to be Jewish and to support Israel in America.