Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
In the Fall 2007 Issue of New Voices, Chloe Safier asked a question that raised debate among readers and attracted tons of traffic to our website. The question? “Why Is There No Jewish American Girl Doll?” Today our question is finally answered, and not just by a clueless Mattel PR rep. It appears that after…
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…
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,…
How Jews Eat from MyJewishLearning.com on Vimeo. The folks at MyJewishLearning.com are going multimedia on us! They recently published a video titled “How Jews Eat”, the second in an ongoing series that began with “How Jews Look”. As one commentor noted on Jewish food blog Jcarrot.org, the characters in this video bear an uncanny resemblance…
Depending on whether you love Heeb, or hate Heeb (and people generally feel only one way or the other), you might have attended last night’s Brooklyn launch party for Heeb’s Music Issue and have already devoured its glossy pages of irreverence and pics of cute hipsters. You might have found that the issue is kind…
Ah Birthright, you’ve done it again. Your clever web banner intrigued me, tempting me to point and click. I even watched the videos I found when I arrived at your Monologues site. I even thought that the performers seemed talented (and not just in that, “they’re pretty talented for a bunch of amateur Jews”, kinda…
38 Years and Still Kickin’
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…