A dark stage with spotlights shining down on the cast of Fiddler on the roof, who are dancing in long skirts with their hands raised in the air.

The Fiddler And The Self-Hating Jew

By Daniel Kushner April 21, 2023

“Right at the moment when I felt the least aligned with Judaism, I was cast in the most Jewish musical in existence.”

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The Battle Over California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum

By Naomi Friedland June 23, 2022

While major Zionist organizations lobby to change California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, many Jewish students and scholars across California have a different outlook on the issue – and are being overlooked in the debate.

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Review: “These and Those” Tests The Limits of Jewish Safety

By Sophie Hurwitz June 7, 2022

A new play by Ruth Geye paints a critical, intimate portrait of a modern orthodox student Shabbat lunch, asking, “how much are we willing to mutilate our souls in the pursuit of safety?”

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Envisioning Jewish Safety Beyond the Nation State

By Drew Perkoski June 1, 2021

On escaping antisemitic violence through community building, not nation building.

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Are Justice and Social Media At Odds in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

By Dahlia Soussan May 20, 2021

We use social media to put aspects of this manifold conflict on trial, yet these sites are not structured to administer justice.

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In These Times: A Letter to the New Voices Community

By New Voices Editorial Board May 13, 2021

A statement from the New Voices Editor on the current moment in Israel and Palestine.

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Meditations on Blood

By Maya Faerstein-Weiss May 10, 2021

Apolitical Memories from somewhere in the Middle East

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Diaspora English: First Realizations in Nazareth

By Daniel Crasnow April 7, 2021

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.

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Revisiting the Jewish Question

By Jonah Lubin February 25, 2021

Rilke’s translated response to an age-old discourse: “What is to be done with the Jews?”

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Illuminating the Diaspora in “The Full Severity of Our Connection”

By Kayla Cohen December 8, 2020

Capturing the tension between a wide-ranging diaspora and conflict-ridden Jewish state in her new book, “The Full Severity of Our Connection,” author Kayla Cohen navigates questions of peoplehood in a contemporary, global context as a Jewish college student.

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Diaspora English: An American Election in Israel

By Daniel Crasnow December 2, 2020

“While American Jews continue to care about Israel, Israelis do not care as much about America.”

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Diaspora English: Tradition As A Tool For Rebuilding

By Daniel Crasnow November 10, 2020

“It can be hard to find comfort in a world where many of the traditional sources of identity are being reexamined and dismantled.”

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Diaspora English: Growing Roots After Quarantine

By Daniel Crasnow October 8, 2020

“By doing our work here…and by recognizing that we are not as strong or as stable as we thought we were, we are building our roots.” Daniel Crasnow reports on his experiences as an English teacher in Israel during a year of pandemic in a series entitled, “Diaspora English”.

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Diaspora English: Quarantine in Israel

By Daniel Crasnow September 18, 2020

Part one of an ongoing correspondence with New Voices Magazine, Daniel Crasnow reports on his experiences as an English teacher in Israel during a year of pandemic in a new series entitled, “Diaspora English”.

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Zionism is Distracting Us

By Drew Perkoski July 16, 2020

“As an illegitimate child, claims of Israel’s legitimacy have never concerned me. I can identify that both of us exist, whether or not we were born into the world under perceived authority. Even if there was a malicious ideology that caused either of us, Jewish bastards both, it would not be relevant in addressing our current transgressions.”

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