Curating Digital Diaspora
The Editor of UChicago’s undergraduate journal for Jewish studies is changing the format for a many-tongued, virtual Jewish world.
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Article Archive
Who’s Disarming the Fight Against Antisemitism?
Crying wolf about online antisemitism cheapens the term to the point of insignificance, endangering American Jews in the process.
The Synagogue in Tokyo
Meet the little-known Jews of Japan, thriving in the furthest reaches of diaspora
Peeling Back the Mythology of the Australian Jewish Left
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.
The Medicine In My Jewish Self, The Torah In My Lakota Practice
“When you pray the Lakota way, do you feel like you’re praying to the same God?”
Diaspora English: First Realizations in Nazareth
I wondered what part of his tour-guide history taught him to step to the back of the group he’s guiding, as he bowed to a religious sight. Was it just a part of getting out of the way— a matter of priorities in which his holy experience need not interrupt our photograph opportunity? Or was there something deeper there— a mutual shame on both our ends.
Revisiting the Jewish Question
Rilke’s translated response to an age-old discourse: “What is to be done with the Jews?”
Diaspora English: Saying Goodbye to Students in Tel Aviv
“I’ll never forget seeing the kids light up as they are given the chance to work with me. I’ll never forget hearing them repeat new words under their breaths in order to memorize them. And I’ll never forget having to say ‘hello’ to twenty kids between the time I walked into school, and the moment I reached my classroom.”
Student Organizers Form The Workers Circle College Network
The 120-year Workers Circle has a fresh branch: a student hub for advocacy, ideas and culture.
The New Jewish Educator-Activists of Instagram
A new type of Jewish education is going beyond the halls of Hebrew School and straight to the hearts of young diaspora Jews.
They Are Here, They Are Everywhere: White Supremacy from My Pacific Northwest Homes to the Capitol
“I cannot ignore these two incidents. I can’t think of them as tragic coincidences.”
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: Doykeit Zine Series
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.
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: Ushpi(zine) by Linke Fligl
“Diasporism offers a path to that future, one of teshuvah (return) and remembering.”