Jacob Miller is a senior at Vassar College double majoring in Biochemistry and Jewish Studies. For three years, he has been the president of VOICE (Vassar Organizing Israel Conversations Effectively), Vassar’s one and only dialogue based group that holds academic discourse on the topic of Israel/Palestine.
Jacob Miller
By Jacob Miller
-
Opinion Vassar Is Actually Handling Anti-Zionist Protests Really Well. I Should Know – They Protested Us
This is one of a number of responses to what happened at Vassar when an Israeli speaker, Hen Mazzig, was protested last week. In 2019, protests against pro-Israel and Jewish speakers are all too common. The topic is a heated one, and speakers getting protested has become almost a daily social media frenzy. These episodes…
-
Community Why I Led My Orthodox Classmates On The National Gun Walkout
CHICAGO (JTA) — I’m a sophomore at Ida Crown Jewish Academy, the largest Modern Orthodox high school in the Chicagoland area. When I heard about the #ENOUGH national school walkout, I immediately wondered how my school could participate. Our school motto is “Inspiring Bnei and Bnot Torah to thrive in the modern world”; here was…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture At Eurovision, Israel’s near triumph shows the limits of tolerance
- 2
Opinion The profound internal contradiction that could spell doom for Hillel
- 3
Sports An op-ed compared an NBA team to Israel as underdog success stories. Then the threats poured in.
- 4
Fast Forward Talarico won’t campaign with Democratic House candidate who wants to open ‘a prison for American Zionists’
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion In Trump’s assault on democracy, echoes of Nazi Germany but new glimmers of hope that America will be different
-
Art This Jewish artist hadn’t painted in more than 5 decades. Then came Oct. 7.
-
Opinion How can I explain to my 93-year-old mother why it suddenly seems ok to hate Jews?
-
Looking Forward The bizarre antisemitic book that taught me to better understand Judaism