Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
There was an important moment in television last night. Obviously, I’m not talking about the Vice Presidential Debate. Take a moment. Think about it. It’ll come to you. Yes, of course, I’m referring to the latest episode of “30 Rock.” (Still my favorite comedy. Yes, I know I’m alone on that.) And yes, I’m saying it…
Aside from supplying the world with news by and about Jewish college students, we’re also a training ground for the next generation of Jewish journalists. A new post today at The Forward’s Sisterhood blog by occasional New Voices contributor Rachel Cohen is today’s proof of that. In the post, Rachel uses Anne-Marie Slaughter’s controversial piece in…
CORRECTION, 10/24/12: The author of this piece has revised — and reversed — his take on the situation. Please see a full correction to this piece here. If administrators at Northwestern University have their way, Chabad’s days of operating openly on the Evanston, Ill. campus are over. Apparently, they’ve just discovered that Chabad serves alcohol!…
Gabe Weinstein, our man in India, writes today at the Ohio University study abroad blog about spending Rosh Hashanah with some of the Jews of Mumbai. A member of the Jewish community there discovered him via Facebook (because of this recent piece Gabe did for New Voices), which led to him spending the holiday with the…
We finally did it. We burned down that horrible, pain-in-the-[insert funny Yiddish-ish word for “ass” here] website. Welcome to the new and improved newvoices.org. And make sure you check out everything this glorious new blog has to offer. If we do this right, the Conspiracy will cover everything you’d expect a cell of the Jewish…
Remember that time when the Zionist Organization of America’s Mort Klein went on a tear about me, observing that I was “young and inexperienced,” and thus unqualified to critique official Jews such as himself? (Here’s what I wrote at the time.) Right on, Mort! We are proud to say we’ve been run for over 40…
As we noted the other day, the glory days of journalism for pay are alive and well here at New Voices: We’re looking for current students interested in positions as blog editor, opinions editor and as staff writers. Full details on all that are over here. And as if that isn’t amazing enough, we’re also…
You may recall the “BDS conference” at the University of Pennsylvania earlier this year. Well, strap in folks, because an even more overly niche-y conference has the Jewish community crying foul. A report in the Algemeiner alerted me to this gem: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at City University of New Yorkplans to…
Space is still available for the 41st annual National Jewish Student Journalism Conference at the NYU Bronfman Center, May 20-22. Check it out on Facebook or register here. If you’re a Masa Israel alum, you’re eligible for a limited number of subsidies for the conference. (And the whole thing only costs $40 anyway!) Apply here…
Reform movement V.P. says their campus presence is ‘like an abyss,’ ‘not acceptable’
(Above, an otherwise unrelated video of Rabbi David Rosen talking about Hindus) The American Jewish Committee Global Forum, currently underway here in the basement of the Washington D.C. Grand Hyatt, is full of impressive people. In the span of 30 seconds at last night’s reception, I spotted a half dozen people whose conference badges identified…
Not to get too overwrought, but here’s my blog post in response to a Zionist Organization of America press release in response to my JTA op-ed in response to their JTA op-ed. Throughout the press release, notice how many of my points are avoided by going on an ad hominem rampage against me. NEW YORK,…
…the 41st annual National Jewish Student Journalism Conference, May 20-22 @ the NYU Bronfman Center in NYC, to be exact. It’s less than a month away and early-bird registration ends next Friday, May 4. After that registration goes up $10. You should come. Check it out on Facebook and get details here. Register and get more details…
JTA has published a new op-ed by me, a response to an piece by some Zionist Organization of America honchos published in JTA earlier this week: Op-Ed: Title VI should be used only on true hatemongers, not political opponents By David A.M. Wilensky NEW YORK (JTA) – In the eyes of the Zionist Organization of…
We received an odd letter here in the New Voices office last week: A single piece of paper with a collection of magazine covers featuring some classic money-Jews (Madoff, Greenspan, etc.) and the words “WALL STREET JEWS” in large letters followed by “…OCCUPY WALL STREET” in smaller letters. I guess it’s kind of true, in…