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Lev Gringauz

Nov 27, 2017, 3:22 PM

What I learned from falling in love with an Israeli

When I was 18, I met the most amazing girl. We were both working at an overnight Jewish summer camp, and during staff week, I sat down just to get to know her. An hour later, it felt like...

Nov 25, 2017, 12:48 PM

All the Jews, everywhere, back away from Tzipi Hotovely

The new crisis in Israel-Diaspora relations is upon us with the backlash over Tzipi Hotovely’s remarks about how American Jews lead “convenient” lives and don’t understand what Israel goes through because they don’t send their kids to serve in...

Nov 9, 2017, 10:54 PM

Rabin means nothing to millennial Jews (and whats up with that)

I don’t remember Rabin’s assassination because I didn’t exist until two years later. I don’t remember “hope” in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process because I grew up with a succession of IDF operations in Gaza and the same corrupt prime...

Nov 4, 2017, 9:49 AM

A Zionist perspective against the Balfour Declaration

I am a Zionist. I believe in the Jewish right to self determination. I believe in the State of Israel, the idea of it as well as its right to exist. I believe in the Jewish right to return...

About Me

Lev Gringauz is a twenty-something Russian speaking Jew not about to let you forget it, studying Journalism at the University of Minnesota and up to his neck in silly love stories from Hillel, Chabad, and anywhere in between.