I have spent this summer volunteering for an organization called Rabbis for Human Rights. Founded in 1988, it is the only organization known to be a rabbinic voice in Israel explicitly dedicated to human rights. Over 100 rabbis and rabbinical students, which represent the organization,
When you arrive in a big, unfamiliar city, things that are not normally intimidating become new sources of anxiety. You don’t know, with certainty, where to find the landmarks which normally ground your life and you feel like an outsider to the cultural nuances specific
I work at the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. The university was founded in 1869 and is New Zealand’s oldest university. By 1871, the University had three professors with over 100,000 acres of land as endowment for
A mere eighteen months ago, a life dedicated to public service was only an imagination. Now, in the middle of 2015, I envision a real future as a Foreign Service Officer. At the time of this post, I will have concluded not one but two
This quarter, Selena Wilkinson ’17 and I are working for the Whole House Reuse project in Christchurch, New Zealand. Whole House Reuse, a project facilitated by Rekindle, aims to make visible the amount of waste occurring throughout the Canterbury region as buildings are demolished and
