Opinion

What We Don’t Say on Yom Hazikaron

By Blanche Haddad • Published: May 12, 2015 • Comment ()

A large, dark, circular room. Blue ominous lighting from the front of the stage. I look around and recognize faces that I’ve passed countless times in countless hallways, yet I’ve interacted with very few of those faces. One of the realities in attending a larger college. I’m seated in between friends and we catch up […]

Uncertainty and New Beginnings

By Shayna Darling • Published: May 12, 2015 • Comment ()

It’s a Monday morning, one of the last of my undergraduate career. And this morning, I didn’t jump out of bed with the confidence to start a new day. I sighed, then shot up in bed and said to myself out loud, “What am I going to do with my life?” I’m sharing this because […]

Standing for Something: Women’s Leadership in Our Community

By Hudy Rosenberg • Published: May 12, 2015 • Comment ()

Coming to Stern, I was met with a reality that did not conform to my expectations. After spending thirteen years learning and being encouraged as a woman to pursue higher level Torah learning and leadership, I expected Stern to be a place to begin actualizing all my aspirations in the realm of Jewish leadership and […]

A Message about Moshiach, Inspired by Dr. Raffel z’l

By Shterna Boteach • Published: May 12, 2015 • Comment ()

Graduation day blinks before me. Like a flashing light, it is dazzling, dizzying, thrilling, or terrifying, depending on the hour. Transition periods don’t invite reflection, they insist upon it. And in that spirit, it’s time to fulfill a promise. Four years ago I promised to write something about the centrality of Moshiach. Dr. Charles Raffel […]

Walk a Mile in My Shoes for Me, Because I Can Barely Walk

By Tzippy Herzfeld • Published: May 12, 2015 • Comment ()

With my college graduation just around the corner, I’ve recently began reminiscing about my time at Stern over the last four years. As a “real freshman,” graduation always seemed unattainable- as though I were on a treadmill, working toward a goal, but never able to fully reach it. I looked forward to college for a […]

Seeing a Professor Anew: An Insight into the Trans and Jewish Narrative of Dr. Joy Ladin

By Blanche Haddad • Published: May 12, 2015 • Comment ()
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I sat facing east, opposite the Torah ark. A conversation behind me is taking place between two men who I presumed to be Columbia students discussing the finances and politics of YU, rather loudly and audaciously, as students of both Columbia and Stern College trickle in and gradually find seats for themselves. Dr. Joy Ladin […]

Sexual Assault: Giving Voice to Victims in Our Communities

By Sarah Robinson • Published: April 13, 2015 • Comment ()
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She insisted on meeting me in my dorm. “It’s hard to blame anyone specific,” she explained, “but I feel pressured to date and marry. Not just anyone, but this guy needs a prestigious career which can cover the exorbitant cost of day school tuition, subscribe to specific religious doctrines, and fulfill all sorts of other […]

Expanding the “Yeshiva” of Yeshiva University

By Miriam Pearl Klahr • Published: April 13, 2015 • Comment ()
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On March 18th, 2015 President Joel met with a group of Stern College students to discuss the future of Yeshiva University, and specifically Stern College. At the meeting, President Joel emphasized the vital role that the traditional style yeshiva, with Roshei Yeshiva at its leadership, plays within Yeshiva University. He stressed that it is the […]

“Well, I’m Not a Feminist, But…”
Fearing the Feminism Label

By Renana Nerwen • Published: April 13, 2015 • Comment ()

This past fall semester I took the course Introduction to Women’s Studies. When I told friends about this course, many facetiously asked if I was actually taking a class about crazy, men hating women who refuse to wear bras, don’t shave their legs, and want to rule over men. Each time, the misconceptions about feminism […]

I’m on Facebook, Therefore I am?

By Rebecca Hia • Published: April 13, 2015 • Comment ()

If you had told me a month ago to deactivate my Facebook account, I would have scoffed and told you that I knew what was best for me. I’ve been a member of the site since 2007, shortly after they made it open to non-college students. I remember joining incredulously in eighth grade, merely from […]