Abigail Leibowitz

Abigail Leibowitz is a junior at Northwood High School, a student activist, dancer, and synagogue youth leader. She is founder of F.A.I.R (Instagram- @students.fair).

Displaced and Refugees

Passover, COVID-19, and the Plight of Refugees

Abigail Leibowitz

(Special to Informed Comment) – Yesterday was the last day of a peculiar Passover, celebrated under the Coronavirus pandemic. It reminded me of a famous story. Two British salesmen went down to Africa in the 1900’s to find if there was any opportunity for selling shoes. They wrote telegrams back to Manchester. One of them […]

Antisemitism

Violence against Jews a sign of increasing hate in the U.S.

Abigail Leibowitz

(The Baltimore Sun) – What could cause such hate in a person that would drive them to kill and injure innocent members of a minority group? I was troubled by this distressing question once again, when on December 28, during the last candle lighting of Hanukkah, an intruder with a large knife burst into the […]