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 […]
Birth control, Feminism, and a Rabbi. These four words glare throughout a recent article published by the The New York Jewish Week written by Stern College alumnus Hannah Dreyfus. She addressed a shiur given by Rabbi Moshe Kahn, talmud and halacha scholar at Stern College for Women. By reading the title of the article alone, “Birth Control, […]
For Elliot and the faith you have in me. I opened the sliding door onto our back patio and my younger brother followed. He slid the door shut behind him, an act that silenced the television. The sky was perfectly blue, the sun perfectly warm. We stood on our back porch in Brooklyn, watching the […]
Concerned over the fate of the GPATS program, I emailed Rabbi Kahn, a leading Talmud scholar here at Stern and my professor for the past few years. On June 26th, he responded with certainty that the GPATS curriculum would remain unchanged. Right before finals season began in the middle of May, both The Commentator and […]
What We Don’t Say on Yom Hazikaron
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 […]