Introducing Yente: Oxford’s Hottest Queer Jewish Zine Collective

By Lily Sheldon February 10, 2022

As we all know, all the best decisions are decided around a cramped gossipy Friday night table.

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When The Women Sang Shema

By Ellie Klibaner-Schiff January 27, 2022

One of the oldest Jewish prayers takes on a new unified meaning early in the morning, with Women Of The Wall

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YU’s Basketball Stardom Can’t Dazzle Away Assault Allegations

By Dylan Caine January 18, 2022

Yeshiva University’s win-streak is overshadowing the team’s assault allegations. Jewish Press coverage is complicit.

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The Dark Side of the URJ’s Male Charisma Economy

By Adam Zemel January 14, 2022

Reform Judaism’s movement-wide gender culture underlies the Morgan Lewis report.

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Dear Jewish Queeries: I’m Asexual. Is It Worth It To Come Out To My Jewish Community?

By Talia BarNoy November 30, 2021

“Being in queer, Jewish spaces and community used to feel amazing but now feels sad and isolating, a reminder that I’m ‘missing out’ on Hashem’s gift or don’t feel like I can be my full self there. Do you think coming out to someone is worth it?”

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Reflections on the URJ Investigation into Sexual Harassment

By Lila Goldstein November 9, 2021

Why investigating sexual harassment matters.

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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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Dear Jewish Queeries: My Mom Wants Grandchildren, But I Don’t Want Kids

By Nat El-Hai August 9, 2021

Broader Jewish culture will have us believe that “being fruitful and multiplying” can only exist within a heterosexual context. This culture may create the means for “Jewish multiplication” but at the cost of whose fruitfulness? 

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Revisiting the Jewish American Princess Zine

By Miranda Sullivan July 26, 2021

“While the Jewish American Princess has been weaponized by non-Jews for antisemitic purposes, intracommunally it’s often been used as a caricature to make fun of classist and racist Jewish people.” Welcome to the Jewish Underground Press.

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Investigation: How Jewish Youth Groups Are Breeding A Toxic Sexual Culture For Teens

By Shira Wolkenfeld July 13, 2021

For decades, major Jewish youth groups have cultivated pressure-based teen sexual cultures, leaving Jewish youth without support or education about sexuality and consent.

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Arts & Crafts, Bonfires, and USDA Flour Sacks: The Little-Known History of Global Jewish Summer Camps

By Rebecca Tauber November 11, 2020

An archival story of how “Summer Children’s Colonies” became known as Jewish diasporic humanitarian aid.

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Two Editors on Revelation and Transition

By Rena Yehuda Newman September 9, 2020

In July 2020, Rena Yehuda Newman became the second transgender Editor of New Voices magazine. As Rosh Hashana approaches and the year changes, Rena Yehuda sits down with their predecessor Daniel Holtzman to reflect on writing, yearning, revelation, and transitioning on the job.

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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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Saving the Day: Campers, Vomit, and Becoming

By Sophia Tufariello August 28, 2020

“I had finally learned how to be my own version of a madricha and not constantly try to copy or one-up others. I wasn’t looking for heroic moments anymore. I was simply loving my job and loving my chanichimot.”

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“Truth, Self, and Belonging”: A Judaism Unbound Fellowship Reflection

By Rena Yehuda Newman February 7, 2020

We are very much in the wilderness, traveling together through the desert. This fellowship has revealed to me how much all Jews need Torah – and how much the Torah needs all Jews, especially those who feel most at the edges of the camp.

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