Fancy Feast Dishes on Queer Sex, Burlesque, and Jewish Continuity

By Julia Hegele October 25, 2023

The Jewish performer’s new essay collection is “part exclusive backstage pass and part long-form literary striptease.”

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Painting of a face of a white woman with closed eyes and brown hair, with her head turns sideways. Behind her is a colorful, shadowed face in pastel blue, yellow and pink with flowing hair.

Young Queer Jews are Adding Their Voice to the Siddur

By Eden Rosenfeld September 14, 2023

“With this siddur addition, LGBTQ+ young adult Jews get to truly share their voices in religious life.”

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The Moss Maidens, a play about teen girls seducing and killing Nazis, is making history

By Gila Axelrod August 4, 2023

“There’s this catharsis in getting to kill Nazis on stage, knowing they would have wanted to kill you.”

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An image of two women against a backdrop of three arches, with orange trees behind them. Once of them is wearing a dark purple dress and gold jewelry, with olive skin. The other is wearing a white long sleeve shirt with short brown curly hair. They are sitting with legs intertwined, touching each other's leg and face.

mi kerida / My Beloved

By Astera Marcos June 27, 2023

“My beloved’s hair is the color of coffee /
And she drinks from the finest waters in Sefarad.”

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A sketchbook laid out on a green background with two images of a transmasculine individual, one looking to the right and colored with blue and orange, the other facing away, toward a circle of light that emanates in blue and orange around the paper.

Born Again in the Bathroom Mirror: a Transmasculine Euphoric Poem

By Levi Metzger June 2, 2023

“I didn’t know what G-d looked like until I met Him this afternoon in the bathroom mirror.”

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Gold Hysteria

By Clara Goldberg May 4, 2023

I could see it all through a foggy haze, Kit and I forming a new life built up from the rotten wood and busted stone, broken pieces melded together to be whole again.

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Can a Jewish Gamer Novel Help Us Redefine Friendship?

By Gila Axelrod February 23, 2023

Gabrielle Zevin’s newest bestseller highlights an unlikely duo: a lifelong chavruta pair. Can the holiness of their collaboration withstand the pressure of stereotypes?

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Tov Li B’Mahaneh Ramah: Remembering A Culture Of Sexual Harassment At Camp

By Alyx Bernstein September 19, 2022

“In our minds, the fun and harmless rule-breaking was no different than treating one another’s bodies as fodder for our entertainment. Sexual violence was celebrated, encouraged, uplifted, and glorified, even as it was, technically, against the rules.”

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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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D’var Torah: How To Protect Our Queer Jewish Kids

By Rena Yehuda Newman July 6, 2022

“Growing up as a people means facing frightening frontiers – including the intimate landscapes of our own bodies. Yet, we can build a safer, more loving Jewish gender and sexual future.”

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A Year of Expansion: Jewish Media Fellowship Reflection

By Lila Goldstein June 7, 2022

“As a writer who has spent a good portion of the last few years studying and organizing around and even just thinking about sexual violence and its prevention, being reminded that I reside within a body feels uncomfortable, almost wrong.” Lila Goldstein reflects on a year with New Voices and Lilith Magazine.

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Investigation: How Jewish Summer Camps Are Damaging LGBTQ+ Youth

By Julia Hegele June 1, 2022

As the camp season begins, New Voices investigates the experiences of former LGBTQ+ campers who have for decades faced exclusion, emotional conflict, pressure, and trauma in the summer’s aftermath.

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Dispatches from the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice

By Mx. Je'Jae Cleo Daniels May 22, 2022

Hundreds of Jews gathered in Washington DC for the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice. In their own words, here’s why they came.

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D’var Torah: What’s Justice In A Post-Roe World?

By Claire Davidson Miller May 6, 2022

The Talmud’s five categories of damages illuminates the full impact of laws that prohibit abortion access – and can guide us in envisioning justice while addressing their damning toll.

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The Continuing Conversation On Jewish Youth Hookup Culture

By Lila Goldstein March 15, 2022

Notes from “New Perspectives on Jewish Youth Hookup Culture,” a panel event hosted by New Voices Magazine, Lilith Magazine, and the Jewish Women’s Archive.

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