Steven Cohen: Birthright should include J Street (and other news…)

By Ben Sales February 4, 2011

In the above video, posted yesterday by the Berman Jewish Policy Archive, BJPA Director Seven M. Cohen says that “Birthright is making a mistake” by not allowing a J Street trip. Cohen recommends, in brief, that Birthright provide “value-oriented trips to Israel”–a range of trips that provide space for students with diverse values or beliefs. Birthright,…

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Percents and People

By Carly Silver February 4, 2011

How do you measure a Jewish population? By faith? By numbers? By synagogue? The New Haven Independent, a paper discussing the affairs of New Haven, CT, says that, in that area, numbers of Jews are statistically rising. However, the study was “supplemented by contacts with 536 households with Jewish-sounding names.” Is this the right way…

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Protect Professor Kristofer Petersen-Overton’s Job

By eweiss February 4, 2011

This article has been edited to reflect a correction: Student leaders of the procession protesting Professor Petersen-Overton’s curriculum have met with Brooklyn College’s administration to discuss their concerns. Previously, this article implied that those meetings had not yet taken place. I take great pride in calling myself a Zionist, but I take greater pride in…

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Forget convergence…. Your new meme for the day is divergence!

By David A.M. Wilensky February 4, 2011

It is the miSinai, conventional wisdom in media that the future is in convergence. Convergence is the idea that you produce content that can be repackaged in a variety of media. For instance, let’s imagine that we at New Voices still have our print edition, but we also have a podcast and regular video pieces. Then,…

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