Our present edition is an unusual one. In recent years, we found a number of younger writers who have covered a wide range of topics for Aufbau. We would decide on the focus of an issue and then ask…

In the late fall of 2009, with the Great Recession doing its worst in the form of layoffs, hiring freezes, and ruined retirement portfolios, I quit an underpaid editorial assistant job at a loathsome…

Buy this book and read it on the plane (!)”. This was David›s advice to me for our upcoming expedition to Alaska›s Harding Icefield, emailed along with a link to Glacier Mountaineering: An…

When I was younger, I attempted to get a job doing hasbara (literally, explaining; in effect, PR for Israel) or generally combating anti-Semitism with words. When the organizations I interviewed with…

Itzik Agai and Ghalib Zahadi live and work on different sides of an increasingly divided Jerusalem, but the two restaurateurs have more in common than they›d believe. Zahadi, a Palestinian man in his…

I grew up on the Upper East Side of New York City. Although I went to a secular private school, the majority of the students that attended and the people in my neighborhood were Jews. I attended an…

Toronto, Canada and London, UK share a lot of similarities. They both have been voted by the United Nations as two of the most multicultural cities in the world. They both share a Commonwealth…