Students share how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting life on campus
“To ignore my emotions would be to ignore the empathy I have for Israelis and Palestinians who are being driven from their homes and who are being killed as collateral damage.”
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
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An Interview with the Jewish Educator Banned from UCSB Hillel
David Harris-Gershon is a Jewish educator, author, speaker, and regular blogger for Tikkun Magazine. He was recently asked by the Israel Committee of Santa Barbara to be a keynote speaker at its annual event, which was to be housed in the Santa Barbara Hillel building. He was going to speak about his book, What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist…
Swarthmore Hillel Declares Itself an Open Hillel
by The Swarthmore Hillel Board On November 11, former speaker of the Israeli Knesset Avraham Burg was supposed to give a talk on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Harvard Hillel house. Instead, Hillel barred him from speaking at the Hillel house, and he ended up giving his talk in an undergraduate dormitory on campus. The…
Israel Essay Contest Update: New Judge, New Deadline
After searching far and wide, we finally found the perfect person to make up our trinity of judges for our inaugural essay contest-Forward editor at large J.J. Goldberg. He brings years of writing experience and a unique perspective on Israel to the panel. A founding member and past secretary general of Kibbutz Gezer outside Tel…
Perspectives on Israeli Independence: Celebrate, Commemorate or Mourn?
Our generation of Jews is torn on the subject of Israel. While intense discomfort grows in some corners, beaming pride grows in others. As our way of observing Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, which begins tonight and continues tomorrow, we asked four Jewish college students with very different takes on Israeli independence, the Palestinian observance…
Purim Pieces Palooza
Here at New Voices, we’re very excited about Purim, as we’re sure you must be as well (take that as an order). After all, what’s not to like? Baked goods + costumes + alcohol + heartwarming story of good vs. evil = one hell of a good time. So pretty much everyone on our masthead…
How do I even begin to explain this?
This anonymously written article was originally published in the “Written Word” section of the YU Beacon, Yeshiva University’s co-ed student newspaper. Under pressure from administrators at YU, the editors of the beacon pulled the article down last night and replaced it with a note explaining their actions. They plan to put the article back, but until they do, New Voices will host a copy of the article, which you can read below.
Coffee for Nazee, Part II
At 6 a.m., we would awake to the squeaky roar of bulldozers. Opening our eyes, we’d see the hulking machines moving lazily back and forth on the construction site. At first, the only people on the site had been IDF soldiers and demolition crews, along with private security guards. But as time passed, more workers…
New Vices
Favorite Dreidel Made in China, Neighbor’s Sidelocks Coveted, Simon Cowell Unimpressed by Bar Mitzvah Performance
Gangster Glossary
“Wherefore it is not astonishing that with a million Hebrews, mostly Russian, in the city (one quarter of its population), perhaps half the criminals should be of that race….” —New York City Police Commissioner Theodore A. Bingham. Published in an august magazine in September 1908, Commissioner Bingham’s words sent New York’s Jews into a tizzy…
Greatest Hits
Bugsy Siegel Benny Siegel’s right eye was found 15 feet away from its socket. The previous night Siegel had been sitting on a sofa in his mistress’s Beverly Hills home, flipping through the Los Angeles Times, when a .30 caliber army carbine bullet carried it there. A total of nine shots were fired through a…