Rachel Bayefsky
RACHEL BAYEFSKY
“I don’t know enough” is not an excuse for silence

There is constant danger in discussing foreign affairs with a fellow Yalie. The danger is that your dear friend, your prickly adversary, will lean across […]

October 16, 2007

RACHEL BAYEFSKY
Funding study abroad still a challenge

One day in Brussels this summer my wonderfully British supervisor, after asking whether anyone wanted tea, paused, and turned to me and my fellow intern. […]

August 31, 2007

RACHEL BAYEFSKY
Yale’s science divide is artificial construct

It’s tough for a social science major like me to understand obscure mathematical technical terms, but apparently there is a “division” between the humanities and […]

March 1, 2007

AYSEGUL ALTINTAS, RACHEL BAYEFSKY & SANED RAOUF
Event unites Middle Eastern arts, cultures

Life at Yale tends to settle into a routine. It’s all too easy to go to similar parties every weekend, to listen to the same […]

February 15, 2007

RACHEL BAYEFSKY & HARRY ETRA
Terrorist groups are to blame for conflict

In August 2005, Israel withdrew its settlers and ground forces from the Gaza Strip. No longer could terrorist acts be justified by pointing to Israeli […]

November 17, 2006

RACHEL BAYEFSKY & MICHAEL POMERANZ
Israeli elections force reflection on future

From an American perspective, last Tuesday’s Israeli election contained elements of the bizarre. Israel borders a territory that has just been taken over by a […]

April 3, 2006

RACHEL BAYEFSKY, ARI EVANS & RENA TRAUBE
Finkelstein and the YCIAS: Misusing Yale, abusing students

Imagine sitting in a room with respected Yale professors, listening to a Yale-invited speaker humiliate fellow students and deride American Jewry’s “level of mental hysteria” […]

October 24, 2005