Eli Friedman

Sep 24, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Eli Friedman

On October 1, China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn and impoverished nation the Chinese Communist Party took leadership of seventy-five years ago when Mao Zedong stood in Tiananmen Square to declare the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

Jul 24, 2024 | jpost.com | Eli Friedman

Last week, I received a letter from Israel’s Chief Rabbinate informing me that I had completed the requirements towards rabbinical ordination, a process I began six years ago. When I called to ask when I would receive my official smicha (ordination), I was incredibly told that since Israel does not currently have a chief rabbi, there is nobody authorized to sign it for me.

Mar 30, 2024 | haymarketbooks.org | Eli Friedman |Kevin Lin |Rosa Liu |Ashley Smith

“Friedman, Lin, Liu, and Smith are strong builders of the international left.

Feb 2, 2024 | thetrek.co | Eli Friedman

Let’s get this out of the way: I’m Eli, and on February 18 I’ll begin my NOBO thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. You can basically stop reading there if that’s all you care about. For those of you who—for whatever reason—want to know more about me, though, I think the best way to introduce myself is to do it in three parts. You’ll see what I mean. The Easy Stuff: I’m twenty-two years old. In April I graduated from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) with degrees in English and history.

Dec 12, 2023 | jpost.com | Eli Friedman

On October 7, Hamas murdered over 1,200 people, raped women, and took over 240 hostages back to Gaza. Of the many ripple effects of this attack, the Jewish one is perhaps the most profound and far-reaching. There has been a naive and futile attempt over recent decades to differentiate between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.