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Our Adar Hearts

By New Voices Fellows March 22, 2024

“As we read a text about Adar, and one about feeling the pain of those suffering, The Fellows wrote our own Torah as a response.”

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When Kahane Came to Campus

By Charlie Summers January 12, 2024

The ultranationalist rabbi whose successors are now at the helm of Israel’s government had an intimate history with Maryland’s Jewish community — one which has been long-since forgotten.

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A “Die-In” at Bard College

By Misha Schaffner-Kargman December 28, 2023

“As the war continues, students search for an outlet for their grief, and ways to do something that feels meaningful. But constraints like social anxiety, institutional pressure, and blacklisting have made activism difficult.”

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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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Opinion: Demonizing Each Other Hurts Us All

By Rebecca Raush December 7, 2023

“I am choosing to allow for my discomfort because dialogue is important to me, and I believe that peace will always begin with a commitment towards understanding.”

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Past Informs Present as Brown University Arrests 20 Students

By Talia LeVine December 1, 2023

Sharing the voices of Jewish organizers behind the November sit-in.

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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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Jew or Journalist? A Student Photographer Reflects on Documenting Impacts of War

By Raquel G. Frohlich November 7, 2023

“My professors teach that we can either pick up a sign and flag and join the protest, or we can pick up a camera and pen to cover the event as a journalist, but never both.”

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Students share how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting life on campus

By New Voices October 23, 2023

“To ignore my emotions would be to ignore the empathy I have for Israelis and Palestinians who are being driven from their homes and who are being killed as collateral damage.”

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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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A Golem’s Thoughts on War

By Julia Hegele October 13, 2023

“When a rabbi takes it upon themselves to forge a Golem, there is an emergency. The being represents an attempt to rebuild, to protect, and most literally, to physicalize the truth.”

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“Israelism” Review: The Dangers of Pro-Israel Indoctrination

By Daniel Kushner September 6, 2023

“In declaring that the only way for Jews to be safe is for Israel to be safe, the safety of Jews everywhere else has effectively been compromised.”

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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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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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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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