The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

On Jewish Catholic Guilt

By Catherine Horowitz July 20, 2023

“By distancing myself from Christianity, I’ve distanced myself from a part of my mom’s life. I’m still trying to put together the pieces I’ve missed.”

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Chelly Wilson, Queen of the Deuce, Matron of Sleaze

By Lauren Hakimi November 14, 2022

How do we remember the infamous Greek Jewish lesbian immigrant porn theater boss Chelly Wilson? Lauren Hakimi reviews the documentary “Queen Of The Deuce,” showing at DOC NYC.

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Start Preparing Early for An Anti-Nationalist Hanukkah: A Zine Review

By Miranda Sullivan October 25, 2021

Reviewing eight nights of radical Hanukkah mini-zines

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Reinventing Jewish Fashion: What’s Old Is New Again

By Mirushe Zylali October 21, 2021

Sewing together fashion from other places and times to express a history of many roots.

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The Tzimtzum of a Jewish Journal

By Lila Goldstein May 27, 2021

Acts of solitary creation through Jewish journaling practices have grown among young Jews, isolated in the pandemic.

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The Spaces We Zoom From

By New Voices Editorial Board December 29, 2020

More people are curating their surroundings, framed within a Zoom window. Yet, what lies beyond the edges of the composed picture tells deeper stories of the day-to-day.

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The Antisemite’s Ashtray

By Chaya Holch November 27, 2020

Should we bury our shame or laugh at it?

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Besamim for Heartbreak: A New Jewish Zine

By Miriam Saperstein September 4, 2020

What happens when two people in an interwoven community break up? A confessional glimpse into ritual and relationships, “Besamim for Heartbreak” braids together archival research, poetry, ritual practice, collage, embroidery, illustration and personal narrative, in a new zine centered around Besamim, the Jewish practice of smelling spices.

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Illustrating the Day-to-Day: “Young, Jewish, and Alive” through COVID-19

By Rebecca Lubow July 27, 2020

In this short illustration series, 2020 New Voices Fellow Rebecca Lubow reflects on the moments in-between during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Up All Night: A Shavuot Zine for 5780

By Rena Yehuda Newman May 27, 2020

Staying up all night to learn Torah for Shavuot is an old tradition – so why not print out a zine to enhance your at-home, quarantined learning experience?

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Yearning to Focus: A PROTOCOLS Fellowship Reflection

By Naomi Rose Weintraub February 12, 2020

As a young, Jewish artist I feel like I am in a constant state of dreaming.

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Revelation and Renovation: A Shavuot Zine

By Rena Yehuda Newman June 4, 2019

This zine was created by Rena Yehuda Newman, who is a 2019 fellow with New Voices and Judaism Unbound. It was originally published on Judaism Unbound’s website.

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Jewish Ritual as Rebellion

By Naomi Rose Weintraub May 9, 2019

הִנֵּה מַה טוב ומַה נָעִים שֶבֶת אַחִים גַם יָחַד Hineh Mah tov umah na’im shevet achim gam yachad. Here! What good! What sweetness! Siblings, friends and comrades sitting together! When we embrace ritual, we stand in the threshold between community and isolation, sacred and profane, this moment and our history. Ritual is not just a…

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A Day in Ramallah

By Nesha Ruther September 27, 2018

H. meets me in the Menarah at around 4:30; I am late, and she, in the tradition of everyone I have met here, is beyond gracious. We walk down Rukab Street towards Rukab Ice Cream. It’s the oldest ice cream shop in Ramallah and so notoriously good that the street is named after the shop…

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How I discovered Jewish strength and history in the pages of a comic book

By Leah Tribbett May 25, 2016

Comic books, for me, were an acquired taste. Growing up, I devoured anything with words — the backs of Pokémon cards, books pilfered from my mom’s shelf, the booklets stuffed inside CD cases — but never comics. Nobody in my life read them, and my weekly TV rotation was tuned into Rugrats rather than the…

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