Decolonizing Through Doykeit: Zine Review

By Miranda Sullivan December 16, 2021

Reviewing the anti-Zionist queer and Jewish “yearbook” series that’s made many diaspora Jews feel less alone.

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Diaspora English: On A Year of War, Plague, and Turning

By Daniel Crasnow September 9, 2021

Looking back on a year of teaching English in Tel Aviv and Nazareth during a resurgence of violence and a global pandemic.

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Who’s Disarming the Fight Against Antisemitism?

By Ethan Friedland June 24, 2021

Crying wolf about online antisemitism cheapens the term to the point of insignificance, endangering American Jews in the process.

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Peeling Back the Mythology of the Australian Jewish Left

By Mika Benesh May 25, 2021

While mainstream Jewish Australian institutions remain right-wing, Jewish communist, anti-fascist, and anti-colonial movements – and memories of them – are bubbling back into awareness for many young Australian Jews.

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In These Times: A Letter to the New Voices Community

By New Voices Editorial Board May 13, 2021

A statement from the New Voices Editor on the current moment in Israel and Palestine.

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Meditations on Blood

By Maya Faerstein-Weiss May 10, 2021

Apolitical Memories from somewhere in the Middle East

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Revisiting the Jewish Question

By Jonah Lubin February 25, 2021

Rilke’s translated response to an age-old discourse: “What is to be done with the Jews?”

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Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: Doykeit Zine Series

By New Voices Editorial Board December 14, 2020

For the fifth night of Hanukkah, New Voices presents this interview about the Doykeit zine series with JB Brager, the editor of a now four-part collection of writing on themes of queerness, anti-zionism, and diaspora.

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Illuminating the Diaspora in “The Full Severity of Our Connection”

By Kayla Cohen December 8, 2020

Capturing the tension between a wide-ranging diaspora and conflict-ridden Jewish state in her new book, “The Full Severity of Our Connection,” author Kayla Cohen navigates questions of peoplehood in a contemporary, global context as a Jewish college student.

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At Columbia, Jewish Students Like Me are Caught in a Culture War

By Talya Wintman February 19, 2020

With the release of the Trump peace plan, it’s been made even clearer that the two-state solution is no more than a platitude — and international activism for Palestinian human and civil rights is more important than ever. However, as a prelude to this politically expedient deal, President Trump announced an executive order which risks…

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I Became an Anti-Zionist the Same Way I Became a Jew

By Ben Bienstock November 26, 2019

I remember telling my mother on the first night of Hanukkah sometime in high school that I didn’t want to sing “Hanukkah O Hanukkah” or anything else in English while we lit the candles. However, I also didn’t want or know how to sing the Hebrew prayers, wrapped as they were in religiosity, complicated words, and foreign melodies. 

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10 Things Newer Than Young Jews Wrestling With Israel – New Vices

By New Voices Staff January 29, 2018

This just in, Jewish millennials. Young Jews increasingly feel distanced from Israel due to a perceived conflict of values, warned the CEO and director-general of the Jewish Agency Alan Hoffman last week. He concluded that Israel is losing young American Jews in an “extremely worrisome” trend, requiring a new approach. “I think it’s very important that…

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No Love for the Film “Hate Spaces”

By Berakha Guggenheim May 30, 2017

“Hate Spaces,” a documentary film released in 2016 and written and directed by Avi Goldwasser, aims to shine a light on campus anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. But, alas, “Hate Spaces” didn’t earn my love. Ultimately, while it starts out strong, it soon devolves into a conspiracy-laden diatribe about Muslims, social justice warriors, and Palestinians. “Hate Spaces”…

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Stanford student’s apology for anti-Semitism misses the mark

By Chloe Sobel April 11, 2016

Last week, I wrote a news piece about a Stanford student who argued that the old anti-Semitic canard that Jews control the media isn’t necessarily anti-Semitism. Gabriel Knight, a student senator in Stanford’s Undergraduate Senate, was discussing the language of a resolution to support the Stanford Jewish community against anti-Semitism. Knight was referring to a clause that…

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Stanford student: Saying Jews control banks isn’t necessarily anti-Semitism

By Chloe Sobel April 6, 2016

  At a meeting of Stanford University’s Undergraduate Senate last night, a student senator said the idea that Jews control “the media, economy, government and other societal institutions” is “not anti-Semitism.” According to the Stanford Daily, Gabriel Knight was questioning the language of a resolution to support the Stanford Jewish community against anti-Semitism. The bill was…

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