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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Home Will Not Wait For Us

By Aliyah Blattner December 19, 2023

“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.”

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Poem in which I am not the sister that kills herself 

By Rebecca Raush November 22, 2023

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 

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The Wisdom of Tohu V’vohu

By Mx. Mones October 18, 2023

“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.”

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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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Love Letter To Antisemites

By Kate Greenberg May 3, 2022

“because I feel most like myself when I start stroking my nose / & projecting my insecurities / onto some tiny piece of land”

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Start Preparing Early for An Anti-Nationalist Hanukkah: A Zine Review

By Miranda Sullivan October 25, 2021

Reviewing eight nights of radical Hanukkah mini-zines

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Diaspora English: On A Year of War, Plague, and Turning

By Daniel Crasnow September 9, 2021

Looking back on a year of teaching English in Tel Aviv and Nazareth during a resurgence of violence and a global pandemic.

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Diaspora English: A Tour of the West Bank

By Daniel Crasnow July 1, 2021

Daniel Crasnow sees the occupation up close through the lens of “Breaking the Silence”

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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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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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Dispatch from a Teacher in Nazareth

By Daniel Crasnow May 21, 2021

An American Jewish English teacher reflects on the moments before a ceasefire in the eerie quiet of a kibbutz.

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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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A Protest Before Sheikh Jarrah

By Daniel Crasnow May 19, 2021

An account of a day-to-day demonstration in Israel and Palestine, moments before current tensions exploded

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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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