Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Jewish Undergraduates and Engagement Across Difference

Publication Description

This paper, from CASJE Applied Research Fellow, Dr. Elana Riback Rand, examines how undergraduate students across 24 institutions of higher education, who identify as bridge-builders, define and understand bridge-building, what motivates them to engage in it, how they enact it in practice, and how their Jewish identities shape and emerge from this work.

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Primary Author
Elana Ribak Rand

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Publication Year
2026

Publication Date
June