Saying Hamotzi Over Challah and Gumbo

By Adam Daigle January 30, 2024

The mission to turn my family’s Cajun recipes Kosher went much deeper than just the food.

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The Ins and Outs of 2024 (by the Jewish Media Fellows)

By New Voices Fellows January 17, 2024

One unhinged writing session later, after great deliberation, and quite possibly spitting out water onto our computers, we bring you… ⁠the definitive in/out guide for 2024.

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When Kahane Came to Campus

By Charlie Summers January 12, 2024

The ultranationalist rabbi whose successors are now at the helm of Israel’s government had an intimate history with Maryland’s Jewish community — one which has been long-since forgotten.

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A Yiddish Camp Saga

By Tyler Kliem January 5, 2024

The weeklong trip to Camp Kinder Ring has been around, formally, for 14 years. But, for the first time, yunge mentshn (“young people”) would fill the bunks, and meet the generations that came before.

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A “Die-In” at Bard College

By Misha Schaffner-Kargman December 28, 2023

“As the war continues, students search for an outlet for their grief, and ways to do something that feels meaningful. But constraints like social anxiety, institutional pressure, and blacklisting have made activism difficult.”

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Opinion: Demonizing Each Other Hurts Us All

By Rebecca Raush December 7, 2023

“I am choosing to allow for my discomfort because dialogue is important to me, and I believe that peace will always begin with a commitment towards understanding.”

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Past Informs Present as Brown University Arrests 20 Students

By Talia LeVine December 1, 2023

Sharing the voices of Jewish organizers behind the November sit-in.

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The Science of Religion: Observations from a Jewish Astrophysicist

By Victoria Dozer November 27, 2023

“It is true that we are formed from the ‘dust of the Earth’ –  we are descendants of space stuff, whether your origin story starts with an apple or a bang.”

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Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim): A Vector Collage

By Ashton Macklin November 10, 2023

New Voices Fellow, Ashton Macklin, shares a collage about our relationships to God in the abstract form.

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Epilogues and Edges

By Relly Robinson November 10, 2023

“Even if we somehow managed to get every member back into that living room in Edinburgh, singing the same songs, it will never feel the same. We will no longer have those same strings of connection, varying in strength but never tenderness, weaving between us.”

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Review: Havurah’s First Jewish Short Film Festival

By Julia Hegele November 3, 2023

The films ranged from poignant renderings of love and loss of faith to high energy concepts toying with the forms of Judaism and film alike. 

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Fancy Feast Dishes on Queer Sex, Burlesque, and Jewish Continuity

By Julia Hegele October 25, 2023

The Jewish performer’s new essay collection is “part exclusive backstage pass and part long-form literary striptease.”

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Students share how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting life on campus

By New Voices October 23, 2023

“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.”

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A Golem’s Thoughts on War

By Julia Hegele October 13, 2023

“When a rabbi takes it upon themselves to forge a Golem, there is an emergency. The being represents an attempt to rebuild, to protect, and most literally, to physicalize the truth.”

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Painting of a face of a white woman with closed eyes and brown hair, with her head turns sideways. Behind her is a colorful, shadowed face in pastel blue, yellow and pink with flowing hair.

Young Queer Jews are Adding Their Voice to the Siddur

By Eden Rosenfeld September 14, 2023

“With this siddur addition, LGBTQ+ young adult Jews get to truly share their voices in religious life.”

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