L’dor V’dor: The Resilience of Ethiopian Jewish Practice
“More than one group has a pencil for the Book of Life.”
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
“More than one group has a pencil for the Book of Life.”
“I once wept outside / a Domino’s in Jerusalem while the buses didn’t run, / parted ways with the child who grew up believing / that somewhere home was waiting for her.”
When she calls us to tell us she’s in the hospital / She being my sister / Or She being my homeland / We drive to the hospital / It’s Shabbat / We drive to the hospital
“Formless and void, tohu v’vohu is the swirling celestial wilderness, before divinity started forming creation. It feels cosmically significant that we have been brought here, now.”
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.
“because I feel most like myself when I start stroking my nose / & projecting my insecurities / onto some tiny piece of land”
Reviewing eight nights of radical Hanukkah mini-zines
Looking back on a year of teaching English in Tel Aviv and Nazareth during a resurgence of violence and a global pandemic.
Daniel Crasnow sees the occupation up close through the lens of “Breaking the Silence”
Crying wolf about online antisemitism cheapens the term to the point of insignificance, endangering American Jews in the process.
On escaping antisemitic violence through community building, not nation building.
An American Jewish English teacher reflects on the moments before a ceasefire in the eerie quiet of a kibbutz.
An account of a day-to-day demonstration in Israel and Palestine, moments before current tensions exploded
A statement from the New Voices Editor on the current moment in Israel and Palestine.