Lubavitch T-Pain Flies Mesichist Colors

By joshnathankazis May 14, 2009

A pretty cool new video out yesterday from frum hip-hop powerhouse Shemspeed, featuring Y-Love and DeScribe. I saw these guys perform at the Shemspeed showcase at 92YTribeca while researching our story on Aharit Hayamim. I liked their set (though not as much as Eprhyme and Shir Yaakov‘s collaboration, a low-res version of which you can…

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Conference Coverage!

By elizabethalpern May 14, 2009

Cheers to Phillip Eil, a participant in the 38th Annual National Jewish Student Journalism Conference and a journalist for The Jewish Voice and Herald. Eil recently published a piece about the conference in an account sprinkled with excellent quotes and details proving that he was definitely paying attention on that jam-packed day. If you weren’t…

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Sieradski, Valley, and Koenig: A Podcast

By joshnathankazis May 13, 2009

Missed out on the 38th Annual National Jewish Student Journalism Conference? That sucks. We had a nice time. You should have been there. Fortunately, we recorded some of the best parts. We’ll be posting podcasts from the conference over the next few days. For now, you can download a conversationbetween Jewish social media guru Dan…

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The Culture Wars

By joshnathankazis May 12, 2009

Those of you who get New Voices in the mail know the Kulturkampf, a colorful matrix that we use to say mean things about bad Jewish pop culture. The spring Kulturkampf just went online here. The December edition is here. The February edition is only available in print. If you’re upset you missed it, click…

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The Search for the Great Jewish Magazine

By Josh Nathan-Kazis May 12, 2009

There are three types of great magazines, in print or online: those that uniquely interpret the historical moment for their readers, those that enable a circle of writers to interpret the historical moment, and those that do both.

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Modernity Comes to the Shtetl

By Michal Goldstein May 12, 2009

On Sholem Aleichem’s Sesquicentennial, a New Translation of Wandering Stars

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Spring Kulturkampf

By admin May 12, 2009

Each issue, the tastemakers at New Voices issue snap judgements on the new and notable. A kiddush hashem is that which sanctifies God’s name. A chilul hashem does the opposite. Apologies, as always, to New York Magazine.

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A Visit

By Emily Seife May 12, 2009

A poem.

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Telling Tales Out of (Hebrew Day) School

By Torbin Granoff May 12, 2009

If you don’t remember it, DID YOU REALLY LIVE IT?

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Of Vulcans and Jews

By joshnathankazis May 11, 2009

Despite a brief dalliance with Voyager, I’ve never been a Star Trek guy. Forgive me, then, if I’m restating the obvious. Also, spoiler alert, or whatever. I gather that there’s long been a vague association between the Vulcans and the Jews, based mostly on the Cohenic origins of the split-fingered Vulcan greeting. Watching this latest…

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“The only winning move is not to play”

By joshnathankazis May 11, 2009

I’ve got a review of Benny Morris’ new book, “One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict,” up now at History News Network, George Mason University’s online magazine. An excerpt: After a disheartening few months, prospects for peace in Israel/Palestine seem brighter than they have in years. In Washington, the Obama administration is putting heavy…

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News on the News: Radio Tidbits on Media Challenges.

By elizabethalpern May 8, 2009

The leitmotif of last week’s National Jewish Journalism Conference was the question of the future of journalism: the challenge of finding new financially viable models for news outlets, and the shift from print to web. Turns out we aren’t the only ones thinking about these things.  Two recent radio shows highlight just these questions. First,…

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38 Years and Still Kickin’

By elizabethalpern May 4, 2009

Yesterday, students representing more than 15 campuses and eight Jewish campus publications gathered at the Kraft Center for Jewish Life to participate in the National Jewish Student Journalism Conference, now in its 38th year. According to the feedback we’ve gotten so far, the event was a smashing success, and we’ll have photos and audio from…

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Culture Clash in the New Jewish Food Movement

By Elizabeth Alpern May 4, 2009

Activists Say Hazon’s Food Conference Is Elitist. Should Social Justice Play a Greater Role?

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