A Day in the Life of Gedenkdiener
“My grandpa was in the Hitler Youth—now I’m doing a very different thing.”
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Article Archive
The History of Jewish Summer Camp Could Change its Future
“It can be hard to let go of the sense that camp is full of tradition and history… but change is ok. It’s inevitable.”
I Have Imposter Syndrome and I’m Owning it: A Jewish Media Fellowship Reflection
“This was the moment I realized that I, like everyone else in the world, was not exempt from imposter syndrome.”
The Torah of Reality TV — Jumping the Fence, Jewishly (Judaism Unbound Podcast)
Pop culture is often dismissed as unsophisticated, reality TV considered a “guilty pleasure”. But let’s take a closer look: is there hidden Torah in the practice of watching reality TV?
Starting a DIY Klezmer Group with the Hava Nagila Principle
Klezmer is all the rage. The New Voices Disorientation Guide is here to show you how to start the Jewish band of your dreams.
Street Show
“I told you, you can. You’re a Jew, I’m a Jew, it’s what we are. We take things. You can take it.”
‘Grounds for Collaboration’: First Jewish Zine Festival Celebrates Unconventional Publishing
Creatives across North America flocked to pop-up events hosted by the Jewish Zine Archive to revel in a renaissance of small-scale Jewish independent publication.
New Year, New Tactics
New Voices chats with a student organizer for today’s best tips on campus activism and agitation as part of our Disorientation Guide.
Do Jews Believe in Ghosts?: A Jewish Women’s Archive Fellowship Reflection
As I sit around the shabbos table with my friends, my family, I imagine there are others there with us, pulled there out of the past.
Yearning to Focus: A PROTOCOLS Fellowship Reflection
As a young, Jewish artist I feel like I am in a constant state of dreaming.
In defense of organized religion
There’s a stereotype that engagement programs for Jewish young adults are geared solely at producing the next generation of Jewish children. Many stereotypes exist for a reason — and this one is no exception. Many efforts to engage youth make a desire to produce the next generation of engaged Jewish youth explicit — and that’s…
How to be socially Jewish
“What do you mean, you’re not allowed to have bacon?” “If you go to public school, how do you have time to daven every morning?” “So, you don’t believe in Jesus?” “You never learned to speak Hebrew?” It seems unlikely that every one of these questions — expressions of bewilderment about Judaism, and confusion about…
How I discovered Jewish strength and history in the pages of a comic book
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…
Modern Orthodoxy must act on inclusion
Unlike many other people I know who grew up in but have since left the Modern Orthodox community, I don’t look back on my childhood religious experiences with sadness. Instead, many of the decisions that I have since made in my religious life have been because of — not despite — having been raised in the…