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Jan 20, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Sabrina Soffer
As I was immersed in the contents on the shelves of a small bookstore in Budapest, the faint sound of a familiar tune reached my ears. It was the theme from Schindler’s List. The music, however, was not coming from inside the store but from a nearby street corner. A middle-aged violinist wearing a knitted beanie was playing to the rhythm of history. The melody transitioned to “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem. Those harmonies were much more than music.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
msn.com | Sabrina Soffer
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Sabrina Soffer
"A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation’s memory but loses a sense of what it’s like to be inside a human skin.”
Inside every person you know, there is another person you don’t.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Sabrina Soffer
When I was little, I crafted a birdhouse covered in mosaic tiles of many colors, shapes, and sizes. Wrapped in shades of purple, blue, white, and emerald green, the birdhouse possessed a single round opening – an entrance that reveals the interior of the home. To the distant naked eye, the hole appears black, rendering the inside of the home void of light and life.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Sabrina Soffer
‘Jewish history is an invitation to travel.” – Leon Wieseltier. Placed at the top of my History of Jewish Civilization course syllabus, this quote encapsulates the winding paths the Jewish people have traversed from antiquity to modernity.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Sabrina Soffer
The American people elected Donald Trump as the 47th president in one of the most remarkable political comebacks in modern U.S. history. Despite all the controversy and his polarizing personality, there is a silver lining in his return to the White House. Middle Eastern leaders have already shown respect for his return to governance.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
gwhatchet.com | Sabrina Soffer
November 14, 2024 Last spring, the world watched as thousands of college students across the country set up encampments on their campuses.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Sabrina Soffer
Today, maintaining a stable order is crucial to preserving liberty. The pogrom in Amsterdam should serve as a wake-up call and a mandate for action.
Jews were rammed by cars, then beaten and kicked on city streets; others were chased and forced to jump into freezing rivers to escape.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Sabrina Soffer
El régimen iraní ha dejado muy claro sus intenciones mientras el pueblo judío marcaba un año desde que su aliado Hamas lanzó el peor ataque terrorista en la historia de Israel y entraba en sus días sagrados este octubre. A través de Hamas, los hutíes y Hezbolá, Irán ha continuado intimidando a Israel impunemente. Y las Naciones Unidas siguen firmes en su posición de que Israel debe rendirse en su guerra para defenderse a sí mismo y al mundo libre. Quizás Dios esté mandando un mensaje.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
jewishjournal.com | Sabrina Soffer
The permeation of anti-Zionism into Middle East Studies programs and academia at large is an old story, as is the BDS movement fostering a pipeline of hate on campus. George Washington University once accepted this problematic reality as a facet of its own campus culture. While pressure from advocacy groups and students like me over the last year has forced it to at least feign reversing course, recent events reveal that virtually nothing in GW’s thinking has changed.
