L’dor V’dor: The Resilience of Ethiopian Jewish Practice

By Ashton Macklin February 21, 2024

“More than one group has a pencil for the Book of Life.”

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Image of a black painted fist in a circle on a white diamond on a stone wall.

The Mizrahi Black Panthers Dreamed of a Different Future

By Maia Golzar Anderson August 20, 2023

“At this moment of heightened conflict, we must remember, and draw inspiration from the Mizrahi legacy of intersectional activism through the Mizrahi Black Panther Party in Israel.”

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Chelly Wilson, Queen of the Deuce, Matron of Sleaze

By Lauren Hakimi November 14, 2022

How do we remember the infamous Greek Jewish lesbian immigrant porn theater boss Chelly Wilson? Lauren Hakimi reviews the documentary “Queen Of The Deuce,” showing at DOC NYC.

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Revisiting The Campus Archives

By Rena Yehuda Newman October 19, 2022

How student activists use the power of archives to serve the local cause they’re fighting for.

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We Are What We Will Be: Jewish Media Fellowship Reflection

By Mirushe Zylali June 9, 2022

“What could any of us have done to deserve conquest, genocide or war? How could you possibly try to draw lines on land? Why can’t we be everything that we are?” Mirushe Zylali reflects on a year with New Voices and the Jewish Women’s Archive.

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The Past, Present, and Future of Independent Jewish Student Organizing

By Sarah Wolf May 16, 2022

An unearthed history of the North American Jewish Students Appeal and its legacy of independent, alternative Jewish student life is more colorful than Hillel wants you to know.

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“Link” by The Melbourne Jewish Labor Bund: Zine Review

By Miranda Sullivan April 29, 2022

Zine review columnist Miranda Sullivan reviews the third edition of “Link”, Melbourne’s Jewish Labor Bund Zine, which carries on an over-a-century-long tradition of Jewish socialist publishing.

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Queen Esther’s Second Seder

By Zach Beer April 12, 2022

The Talmud says the story of Purim happened over Passover. Who says second night seder isn’t special?

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Everything Is The Holocaust

By Drew Perkoski January 6, 2022

In a world ruled by Godwin’s Law, how can we reclaim the memory of the Holocaust to fight against today’s real atrocities?

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How To Search For An Ancestral Shtetl

By Samantha Tener December 8, 2021

For Ashkenazi lineages, what does it take to go beyond Anatevaka and into often-unrecorded personal history?

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Who’s Disarming the Fight Against Antisemitism?

By Ethan Friedland June 24, 2021

Crying wolf about online antisemitism cheapens the term to the point of insignificance, endangering American Jews in the process.

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Not All Time Is For Sale: Keeping Shabbat Under Capitalism

By Ezra Lebovitz April 29, 2021

“There are still 25 hours of the week where time holds still, makes room for something quiet and eternal. It is, by its very nature, a world designed to exist outside of capital.”

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Living Memory of the Jewish Left: A Jewish Currents Fellowship Reflection

By Chaya Holch and Miriam Saperstein January 11, 2021

Two New Voices Fellows discuss their year working with Jewish Currents, weaving memory about the Jewish Left through the eyes of the magazine’s lineage of writers and editors.

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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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Hashish: A (Jewish) History

By Jordan Adelipour March 10, 2020

A cornerstone of Jewish identity is a fierce love of argument and discussion- coupled with intoxication, of course. At least that’s what I saw that one time at Chabad.

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