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Hillary Anger Elfenbein

Jun 20, 2025, 7:26 AM

Mothers Against College Antisemitism is a monster that universities created

Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th being both a faculty member and mother of a Jewish college student has placed me in the intersection of two very different worlds. This sliver of space is disquieting, in a field...

Michael Feldstein

Jun 5, 2025, 7:30 AM

Social Media Suggestions … and Why I Always Use the Word “While”

I’m a frequent user of social media – admittedly to a somewhat unhealthy degree. While I don’t post comments about where I have been or photos of what food I ordered at the newest kosher restaurant, as some people...

Hillary Anger Elfenbein

May 31, 2025, 8:48 AM

The Chronicle of Higher Education expresses disregard for Jewish parents

Being both a faculty member and mother of a Jewish college student has placed me in the intersection of two very different worlds: a profession that faces existential threats and a parent community where we and our children are...

May 9, 2025, 12:19 PM

Zara, are you listening? Sweating the sweater

By the time you’ve had four daughters finish eighth grade at yeshiva day school, you’d think you’d know what they need to wear for graduation picture day. So when the moms of my fifth daughter’s friends asked for my expertise,...

Jan 23, 2025, 10:56 PM

Creating Reality: Facebook complies with Holocaust denial

Is Facebook’s newly proclaimed indifference to truth a betrayal of those murdered by the Nazis? Facebook hosts an uncountable number of Holocaust deniers. For many, it is difficult to believe that Holocaust rejection is a real thing, but it...

Damon Isherwood

Jan 17, 2025, 10:35 AM

Disconnected by Connection: The Psychological Toll of the Digital Age

Man on smartphone. (Photo by Warren on Unsplash)

We live in an unprecedented technological age, where it feels like our smartphones become outdated within weeks, our life choices are judged through 'likes' and views, and the main focus of companies is competing for our attention in the...

Sep 28, 2024, 3:31 PM

Indifference etc.

I thought they'd left and I could continue forgetting them. They were friends, a couple from Cairo living in the US to improve their lives. Well-educated, both with master's degrees, they'd come to say goodbye before heading to another...

Sep 9, 2024, 11:17 PM

From the river to the sea, Facebook is free

The social media platform's rule-setters have concluded that the contentious slogan has more than one meaning. Is that so bad?

Jul 22, 2024, 2:36 PM

The ebb and flow of surfing

I’m known as (one of) the surfing rabbi(s). Surfing is everything to me. Perhaps I should qualify that: beyond my family and religious commitments, surfing is at the top of the list. If it weren’t for the Mediterranean Sea,...

Jun 29, 2024, 1:17 AM

I caught her clip and was taken aback. From a Zoom meet of women's rights advocates against genocide, a Palestinian film director I'd worked, wined and dined with, described Gaza now although not there. I found out the following. This...

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