Music, Food and Jews in SoCal
The sights and sounds of Jewlicious Judah Ari Gross is a senior at the University of Maryland and the editor in chief of the Maryland Mitzpeh.
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
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Controversy, Ignored
American Jews love controversy. So why did the National Museum of American Jewish History exclude it? Judah Gross spends a day at the museum, checking out its impressive collection and wishing there were more conversation.
Buy Me an E-Reader, I’ll Figure Out the Halacha Later
The fact that I am shomer shabbat has been the major obstacle to my buying a kindle or nook. However, that all changed recently. My sister, Adina, is applying to a few business schools (Shout out!). Because she works in the corporate world, she is the go-to sibling to check cover letters and résumés. But…
IDF Tells Soldiers Not to Post Embarrassing Photos on Facebook, Thanks Mom
I am paranoid. The more I understand about law, the government, advertisers and the Internet the more freaked out I become. I believe that anything sent via text, posted on the Web or said on a cell phone conversation is being recorded by someone. A corporation, the government, the police, I don’t know who but…
Roger Waters Defends Against ADL Attacks
Roger Waters responded Monday to the ADL’s claim that his performance of “Goodbye Blue Sky” in The Wall Live tour was anti-Semitic in an open letter to The Independent, a U.K. newspaper. Waters, the bassist for Pink Floyd, was accused of having anti-Semitic video imagery projected on to a backdrop during his show by the…
Israeli Bacon
Dr. Eli Landau just accomplished the saddest thing I have heard (recently): he wrote Israel’s first pork cookbook. While some might argue that this is horrible because it is an Israeli cookbook about pork. I, on the other had, see this as horrible because it is only Israel’s first. Landau’s precedent shattering work is called,…
Hello World
If you come to New Voices regularly, you know that they have been looking for contributors. That is where I come in. And since I will be writing for all of you in the coming months I thought it only fair that I introduce myself, what I plan to do and what I plan not…
Judge the Book by its Cover
Gary Shteyngart’s third novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” depicts a future that is superficial, anti-literate and dystopian. In other words, our lives in 20 years.