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What freedom means to both of us
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Noa and Netta Dobzinski, 13-year-old students from the Ellis School in Pittsburgh. You can find more work from our young writers here. Freedom. Most people think about big freedoms when they hear this…
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A reflection on Rona
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Asher Wexler, a 17-year-old student at the Research Triangle High School in Durham, N.C. You can find more work from our young writers here. I knew a thing or two about freedom, so…
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Sea split freedom — a poem
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Julia Schroers, a 14-year-old student from Guilford, CT. You can find more work from our young writers here In order to be free, your cold brass shackles must fall to the earth, releasing…
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She followed her star
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Lara Fraenkel, an 11-year-old student at École Buissonière in Montreal, Canada. You can find more work from our young writers here A young girl stared out a window. Her wavy brown curls were…
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To be free is to be open to new possibilities
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Emily Hyett, a ten-year-old student from North Hampton, New Hampshire. You can find more work from our young writers here. What is freedom? Is it a young child biking down the streets of…
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Freedom is a rainbow
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Ella Sadka, a 12-year-old student from the Ann and Nate Levine Academy in Dallas. You can find more work from our young writers here. Freedom is a Rainbow Freedom is a rainbow Where…
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The face of freedom is 18 years old
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Maayan Sarna, a sophomore at SAR in the Bronx. You can find more work from our young writers here. The face of freedom is eighteen years old and she is standing outside her…
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Freedom, a poem
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Covenant Olorunyomi, is a 17-year-old student from Baptist High School in Lokoja, Nigeria. You can find more work from our young writers here. My world has never been limited to the four walls…
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What it means to be free
I knew I was in trouble when I spotted the crimson marks slashing through my answers. I turned the quiz over tentatively. A big fat 80, my lowest grade to date. My friends gathered around each other, whispering about their grades, and I couldn’t even admit mine. Tears fell on my paper, blurring my answers….
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Learning about the First Amendment changed my life
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Lilli Libowitz, a 14-year-old student at the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School in Washington, D.C. You can find more work from our young writers here Three years ago, when I was in fifth…
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Who should replace Ruby Rose as the Jewish Batwoman?
It was the most controversial bat-casting since Ben Affleck. No — not Robert Pattinson. When it was announced that Ruby Rose would take on the title role of Kate Kane in the CW’s “Batwoman,” fans of the crimson-haired crusader were not having it. Rose ticked one box — a lesbian woman playing a lesbian woman…
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