Long before my letters of acceptance and rejection from universities trickled in, I was sitting in a café with my Columbia interviewer—who, herself, had graduated not long ago.

This weekend, 130 students from across North America will converge on the Jewish Theological Seminary to discuss topics ranging from “Gender Neutral Organizing on Campus” to “Leviticus 18:22—Who is

Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, were two teenagers from the province of Khuzestan, charged with rape and sodomy in a nation where both concepts are frequently conflated by a specious just