Gabe Levine-Drizin, Columnist
May 13, 2018
Filed under Latest Stories, Opinion
Last Friday, The Daily ran two columns about the ramifications of President Donald Trump’s recent decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or more commonly “the Iran nuclear deal.” On the surface,...
Gabe Levine-Drizin, Columnist
April 10, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
For the second straight week, thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip marched toward the border fence with Israel to protest on “Land Day,” a day that has been commemorated since 1976 when Arab leaders initially declared...
Ryan Boyd, Columnist
March 2, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
Late last month, Israeli police recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in two separate corruption cases. There are also two ongoing corruption investigations into a plethora of former Netanyahu aides. And as if tha...
November 14, 2017
Leo Sainati, Op-Ed Contributor
October 19, 2017
Filed under Contributors, Opinion
I was raised a reform Jew in a Northern Virginia congregation which didn’t have the largest Jewish population, but enough to make up a decent-sized community. I also participated in a regional youth group and went to a summer...
May 19, 2017
May 17, 2017
Filed under Latest Stories, Letters to Editor, Opinion
On May 15, 2017, Northwestern’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine invited a woman charged with complicity in the bombing of a supermarket and the murder of two Israeli students to speak for their Israeli Apartheid Week. As a liberal Jew who’...
Omar Shanti, McCormick senior
February 7, 2017
Filed under Latest Stories, Letters to Editor, Opinion
The following letter is written in response to the Assistant Dean of Weinberg Mark Sheldon’s letter, revealingly titled “The walkout’s purpose was derailed by anti-Israel sentiment.” This title does not only reinforce the erasure of the Palestinian people and of the continual punishment inflicted upon them by Israel but also deploys a comm...
February 2, 2017
September 19, 2016
Filed under Letters to Editor, Opinion
What is your favorite soup? Take a moment to think — we’ll come back to it.
My name is Charlie and I’m a McCormick senior. I will be serving our undergraduate Jewish community this year as the Hillel representative on...
Shira Zilberstein, Guest Columnist
May 15, 2016
Filed under Columns, Opinion
The decline of conventional religious observance is a well-documented trend in contemporary society. However, this trend, especially for contemporary Jews, does not diminish the salience of religious identity. I think this vacuum c...
April 25, 2016
