Jordanna Birnbaum

Jordanna Birnbaum is the intern at MyJewishLearning.com


Articles by Jordanna Birnbaum

The Rolls-Royce of Emergency Medicine

After the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti six weeks ago many of us saw YouTube videos streaming from CNN and other ...

The Miracle of The Wind-Powered Menorah

When Yeshiva University student Mark Stauber would walk down Amsterdam Avenue daily to go to class, his yarmulke would continuously ...

Regina Spektor or Benjamin Netanyahu?

Last night I was lucky enough to see Regina Spektor perform at Radio City to a packed house. Even though ...

A Chat With Shahar Peer

Recently at this year’s U.S. Open, MyJewishLearning spoke with Israeli tennis superstar, Shahar Peer. At 22 years old, Shahar Peer ...

Breaking The Silence: Israel Activism & American Students

Just days after the Durban II conference in Geneva, and on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, New York University’s ...

Shomer Negiah, the Prohibition on Touching

The term refers to someone who refrains from physical contact with members of the opposite sex.

Project FEED: Focus, Engage, Educate, & Deliver

Each year NYU’s Bronfman Center plans Shabbat for 2,000, an event which strives to engage 2,000 community members in a ...

People of The Book

Last week at JELO, a weekly interdenominational learning program at NYU’s Bronfman Center, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, the University Chaplain entered ...

The Kosher Quandary

Last night I attended The Kosher Quandary: Ethics and Kashruth, which was the inaugural event of Yeshiva University’s new student ...

The Virgin Bride

In recent months I have received a flurry of wedding invitations. I have also been helping plan my sister’s wedding, ...