Lauren Schostak - Berkley High School (1st Place: Non-Fiction)

A Once Blinded Jewish Woman

Abstract: explores her encounter with the tension within the Women's March between feminism and Zionism, and poignantly describes her refusal to compromise between her identity as a Jew and as a woman.

Shoshana Applebaum - Farber Hebrew Day School (1st Place: Poetry)

Being A Jew in America

Abstract: explores the pervasive anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in self-proclaimed safe spaces, including schools, social media, and LGBTQ+ pride parades, leading her to question whether or not these spaces, including America itself, are in fact safe for Jews to live openly as Jews in America.