Arabic

A Lonely Atonement: Yom Kippur in the Islamic Studies Reading Rooom

Posted on September 25, 2015September 24, 2015 by Ilona Gerbakher

It’s Erev Yom Kippur. Perhaps the holiest night of the Jewish year. I’m sitting in the Islamic Studies Reading Room at Columbia’s Butler Library, reading through Shi’a manifest... Read More

Disrupting the Narrative: Israel and Palestine (Part II)

Posted on August 28, 2015August 27, 2015 by Abigail Clauhs

Abigail recently returned from a two-week-long Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) human rights delegation to Israel and Palestine. UUJME’s mission is “to promote pea... Read More

Disrupting the Narrative: Israel and Palestine (Part I)

Posted on August 26, 2015August 25, 2015 by Abigail Clauhs

The Self-Hating Jew/The Islamophobe

Posted on May 7, 2015May 6, 2015 by Ilona Gerbakher

I haven’t written publicly about my life in Israel since I moved here. The truth is I’m scared to face the inevitable backlash that follows any time you write anything about this country. ... Read More

You use the words you know

Posted on November 13, 2013November 13, 2013 by Elise Alexander

One of the unexpected things I have told friends about in my learning to speak Arabic over the past five years is the fact that I am much more talkative in Arabic than I am in English. In Arabic, my... Read More

I dwell in (and with) Possibility

Posted on October 7, 2013October 7, 2013 by Elise Alexander

One of the few specific facts I remember from my introductory class on Western religions in college is the uniqueness of the Hebrew creation myth (in all its forms). While other gods of ancient Meso... Read More