Our Institutions Will Survive Trump

By Josh Daniels November 11, 2016

I’m not afraid of the big bad wolf. But I do worry about the people that voted for him. Last week on “Real Time” with Bill Maher – a primary news and politics outlet for a huge number of my peers – David Frum of The Atlantic made a plea to all those millennials who…

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Ohio State moves forward from Holocaust song controversy

By Jackson Richman September 22, 2015

With a new football season underway at the Ohio State University, the Buckeye community is determined to move forward in light of a report released this past summer regarding anti-Semitic lyrics in the school’s marching band songbook. OSU Hillel Executive Director Joseph Kohane told New Voices via email that the administration issued two statements condemning…

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Student journalism is no joke

By Chloe Sobel June 11, 2015

Two Jewish nonprofit employees walk into a Christmas store. Then what? This isn’t the set-up for a joke. There’s no punchline here. If you’re me, you walk around feeling divided between a sense of familiarity and a feeling of foreignness. If you’re my predecessor Derek, maybe it all just feels foreign. But it doesn’t matter…

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In Praise of Al Jazeera America – Israeli Media Can Take a Lesson

By Sam Hantverk February 6, 2014

Al Jazeera. Simply hearing the name would bother me two years ago, like nails on a chalkboard. In my ethnocentric view, I believed Al Jazeera existed for the sole purpose of promoting anti-Israel propaganda with the utmost criticism of the nation. How could I trust any of their other journalism with their articles containing blatant…

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5 Great Mustaches…And the Jews Who Wore Them

By Selah Maya Zighelboim November 18, 2013

(X-posted from Texas Hillel’s blog) November means Movember, a month of growing mustaches to bring awareness to prostate cancer and other male cancers. In honor of this, Texas Hillel’s blog presents: Five Great Mustaches… And the Jews Who Wore Them. When comedian Groucho Marx didn’t want to take the time to apply a pasted-on mustache for a vaudeville…

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Four Decades: Jewish Students ‘Press’ on at UCSC

By David A.M. Wilensky February 25, 2013

New Voices has been around since 1991, but the organization that publishes New Voices, the Jewish Student Press Service, has been around since 1970. In the 70s, as I wrote for last Monday’s edition of Jewniverse, there were hundreds of independent Jewish student publications on campuses all over the country. JSPS was founded as a…

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Seniors, Recent Grads: Run This Publication – Actual Salary Included!

By David A.M. Wilensky February 11, 2013

Seeking recent college grad for full-time position: Editor in Chief of New Voices Magazine New Voices Magazine and the Jewish Student Press Service have a full-time job opening for the editor of an online magazine and director of a small non-profit. The start date is flexible, somewhere around late spring/early summer 2013. Applicants will have…

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PHY: The Truth About Santa

By H. B. Rubin December 12, 2012

This article is the fifth in the series “Procrastination HaYom”– a week-long series of funny videos, websites, articles, and pictures that will do nothing to help you get that A, but everything to help keep you sane during finals time.   Life has been rough the past twenty-one years. Never a single visit from the big…

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Now Hiring! The Sequel: A Full-Time Opening

By David A.M. Wilensky September 6, 2012

As we noted the other day, the glory days of journalism for pay are alive and well here at New Voices: We’re looking for current students interested in positions as blog editor, opinions editor and as staff writers. Full details on all that are over here. And as if that isn’t amazing enough, we’re also…

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Now Hiring Students: Staff Writers, Blog Editor, and Opinions Editor

By Simi Lichtman September 4, 2012

There was a time when journalism attracted the best, the brightest, and the boldest. Journalists were brilliant and famous, changing the way the world saw the world. And yes, they even got paid for this. At New Voices, we’re keeping that era around. New Voices Magazine  is a national, independent magazine written by and for Jewish…

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Full Jewish Student Journalism Conference schedule — space and subsidies still available!

By David A.M. Wilensky May 14, 2012

Space is still available for the 41st annual National Jewish Student Journalism Conference at the NYU Bronfman Center, May 20-22. Check it out on Facebook or register here. If you’re a Masa Israel alum, you’re eligible for a limited number of subsidies for the conference. (And the whole thing only costs $40 anyway!) Apply here…

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Don’t lick the Lubavitcher Rebbe; artsy synagogues; and more. [Required Reading]

By John Propper February 29, 2012

Up close and personal in the Gaza Strip [Vice News] After a failed attempt in 2007 to make it into Gaza, during a violent conflict there, Vice News finally makes it in, sharing their insights and experiences on one of the most hotly debated geographic regions on Earth. Licking the Lubavitcher Rebbe…? [Jerusalem Post] A…

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Abusing lashon hara: in defense of a journalist [Controversy]

By John Propper February 13, 2012

After a recent article in The Jewish Week on accusations of abuse by Rav Aharon Bina, head of an all-male yeshiva in Old Jerusalem, was published to much controversy, the Jewish blogosphere exploded with the aftershocks. From a blog where critics of Bina’s methods and teaching style can vent their frustrations and even their trauma,…

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Need optimism, STAT!

By lcuen June 16, 2011

Since you are reading this it means that you probably fall into one of two categories: -people that like to read -or people that write, as writers often tend to be a case of overall word addiction But as you probably know, the job prospects for aspiring writers is in some nasty shape. Journalism is…

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L’shana tova: a year in strange and uncomfortable places

By lcmoore September 10, 2010

I’m a new face here at New Voices. None of you know me, and I don’t know any of you yet.The first thing I want to do is say that I hope your New Year has been sweet so far. Because let’s face it, shall we? For some of us, 5770, in many ways, totally…

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