Jewish Futurisms: More Predictions

By New Voices Fellows January 4, 2023

In 5797, there will be a ninth day of Channuka.

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Street Show

By Seth Andrew Bearman October 14, 2022

“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.”

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A Jewish Person Binds Their Chest

By Talia BarNoy September 1, 2022

“I stood there, in my father’s closet, looking up at the cracked white paint of the ceiling, hoping God would hear that I was man, woman, and everything too.”

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The Pardes Ten

By Eli Hurwitz April 29, 2022

In 5815, ten unconnected Jews in disparate locations will have concurrent experiences of arriving at gan eden.

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Jewish Futurisms: Predictions For The Next Half Century

By New Voices Fellows March 9, 2022

Inspired by Rabbi Joshua Bolton’s poem “Jewish Futurisms,” New Voices Fellows composed their own set of poetical predictions for the next 56 Jewish calendar years.

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Women Should Be

By Ella Deutchman November 4, 2021

“They say I was grieving my loss as the only righteous woman; that sizzles my bones, as if I bought into that scathing myth we force feed our girls, that womanhood is scarce and to be monopolized.”

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Waters Of Heaven, Waters Of Earth

By Sophie Hurwitz September 14, 2021

Shira had been texting her best friend for a long time. Maybe this will be forever, she thought. This imperfect, one-sided conversation. The world is built on longing, she remembered as she pulled one end of the gum out of her mouth, stretched it out, and stuck the end back in and pulled to make a loop.

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“A Series of Unfortunate Events” Author Analyzes Jewish Themes of New Netflix Series

By Josh Weiss January 30, 2017

Almost 20 years since the publication of “The Bad Beginning” and thirteen years (a fittingly unlucky figure) since its film adaptation, Netflix has given Lemony Snicket’s book series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” new life. Filled with incredible actors, breathtaking sets designs, and an engaging plot infused with humor and melancholy, the new show is everything fans…

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There’s Life After “Stranger Things” – and It’s Called “Red Oaks” Season 2

By Josh Weiss December 15, 2016

Let’s face some unsavory facts: the first season of “Stranger Things” is over and the show won’t be back until 2017. If you’re anything like me, there’s a gaping Eggo waffle-shaped void in your soul where Eleven and the rest of the Hawkins, Indiana gang used to reside. Was it the best new television series…

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Meet Jewish Wizards in “Fantastic Beasts”

By Josh Weiss November 29, 2016

At first glance, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” seems like a movie made on a wild dare. It’s based on the fictional tome by magical zoologist Newt Scamander in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter universe. Some may remember the 128-page encyclopedia written by Rowling in 2001 along with Quidditch Through The Ages. So, how…

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Reflections on National Novel Writing Month

By Hannah Rozenblat October 13, 2016

There’s a good reason Jews are referred to as the “people of the word.” Our focus on texts is a long-standing tradition that encourages respect, even reverence, for the written word. Words are meaningful, powerful. They can create entire worlds. I highly appreciated this concept even as a child when I used to create fictional…

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The Tattooed Horror

By Josh Weiss June 2, 2016

You want to know the truth, eh? The truth behind my tattoo? No, no, no, not the one on my forearm. I know the one you’re talking about. The truth — or the full tale, I should say —  is far more fearsome than the one I tell to the droves of students at Miskatonic…

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“Child of the Sun” shines as retelling of Samson story

By Josh Weiss March 2, 2016

  The first time I read the graphic novel “Watchmen,” I was profoundly shocked by what writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons had done with the superhero genre. A gritty amalgam of nudity, profanity, sex, and political subtext, it caused me to feel overwhelmed and a little embarrassed at what I was reading. To…

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Samson’s Delight

By Josh Weiss September 3, 2015

This short story contains racial and ethnic slurs.   “When’s that kike getting here?” “I wish you wouldn’t use such language, Henry.” “Why not? You’ve read the Protocols, same as me. They can’t be trusted, Gerry.” Gerald Thompson fiddled with his pocket watch that was always a minute behind. He glanced at his business partner,…

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OMGWTFEXODUS: A Dialogue With the Man Who’s Bringing the Bible to the 21st Century

By Derek M. Kwait September 5, 2014

Part live spectacle, part Biblical scholarship, comedian David Tuchman’s OMGWTFBIBLE podcast “reframes the Bible as the world’s oldest weekly comedy serial.” A year-and-a-half after its debut in April 2013 (as seen in New Voices), he’s now heading into Exodus. I caught up with David recently in the food court of Grand Central Station to discuss…

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