In the past year, hate crimes against Asian Americans have risen dramatically in conjunction with the number of COVID-19 cases across the country. Asian Americans have been forced to face verbal harassment,...

Last Passover, my family sat around the seder table with my grandfather on FaceTime. This Passover, I hugged my grandfather.  Once quarantine started, the world was trying to adapt, and so was my relationship...

There’s a common complaint plaguing the CESJDS halls regarding how the rule requiring students to be outside during free time stifles peoples’ ability to talk with others. While I understand that it...

While watching the news last night, the breaking news story was “Senate seeks to pass 1.9 trillion dollar COVID relief bill.” While many would gloss over the story, it was reassuring and refreshing...

As a new administration takes charge of the country, anxiety stemming from national and global news appears to be stabilizing (excluding an occasional coup in Southeast Asia or a Q-Anon conspiracy theory...

Before I switched to CESJDS, my public school schedule in spring 2020 was heavy on asynchronous classes. In contrast, my schedule at JDS now includes a majority of synchronous classes. Because of both...

Throughout the past year, many teenage students have been struggling with a variety of different problems as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, including mental health and proper social interaction. However,...

During my short breaks in a long virtual school day, I usually click on Instagram or TikTok to take a much-needed breather from long, strenuous classes, but recently, my feed has been filled with various...

As JDS students prepared to return to in-person learning, the school required that every student received a flu shot before returning to campus. Now, the teachers will be required to be vaccinated as soon...

As I close my journal after a 20 minute writing session, I exhale and feel much of my stress has been relieved. In the midst of all the chaos going on in the world, journaling has been my constant. It...