Fancy Feast Dishes on Queer Sex, Burlesque, and Jewish Continuity

By Julia Hegele October 25, 2023

The Jewish performer’s new essay collection is “part exclusive backstage pass and part long-form literary striptease.”

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Young Queer Jews are Adding Their Voice to the Siddur

By Eden Rosenfeld September 14, 2023

“With this siddur addition, LGBTQ+ young adult Jews get to truly share their voices in religious life.”

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An image of two women against a backdrop of three arches, with orange trees behind them. Once of them is wearing a dark purple dress and gold jewelry, with olive skin. The other is wearing a white long sleeve shirt with short brown curly hair. They are sitting with legs intertwined, touching each other's leg and face.

mi kerida / My Beloved

By Astera Marcos June 27, 2023

“My beloved’s hair is the color of coffee /
And she drinks from the finest waters in Sefarad.”

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The History of Jewish Summer Camp Could Change its Future

By Julia Hegele June 15, 2023

“It can be hard to let go of the sense that camp is full of tradition and history… but change is ok. It’s inevitable.”

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Mishpacha: Given and Found

By Elsa Baxter June 8, 2023

“Zadie’s fork clatters on the table, startling me. So, he says, taking a breath to steady himself, I have been told that you are gay.”

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Born Again in the Bathroom Mirror: a Transmasculine Euphoric Poem

By Levi Metzger June 2, 2023

“I didn’t know what G-d looked like until I met Him this afternoon in the bathroom mirror.”

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Gold Hysteria

By Clara Goldberg May 4, 2023

I could see it all through a foggy haze, Kit and I forming a new life built up from the rotten wood and busted stone, broken pieces melded together to be whole again.

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Why Did “Indecent” Become An Overnight Classic?

By Catherine Horowitz January 12, 2023

The play by Paula Vogel became an immediate theater phenomenon. It hasn’t stopped captivating audiences and gracing student stages. What explains its unusual success?

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A Jewish Person Binds Their Chest

By Talia BarNoy September 1, 2022

“I stood there, in my father’s closet, looking up at the cracked white paint of the ceiling, hoping God would hear that I was man, woman, and everything too.”

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Jewish Queeries: Summer Frolic Compendium

By Nat El-Hai July 8, 2022

The Jewish guide to the love, lust, and everything undefinable that comes with the summertime gaiety of 5782.

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D’var Torah: How To Protect Our Queer Jewish Kids

By Rena Yehuda Newman July 6, 2022

“Growing up as a people means facing frightening frontiers – including the intimate landscapes of our own bodies. Yet, we can build a safer, more loving Jewish gender and sexual future.”

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Investigation: How Jewish Summer Camps Are Damaging LGBTQ+ Youth

By Julia Hegele June 1, 2022

As the camp season begins, New Voices investigates the experiences of former LGBTQ+ campers who have for decades faced exclusion, emotional conflict, pressure, and trauma in the summer’s aftermath.

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Introducing Yente: Oxford’s Hottest Queer Jewish Zine Collective

By Lily Sheldon February 10, 2022

As we all know, all the best decisions are decided around a cramped gossipy Friday night table.

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Stories From The Toxic Sexual Culture of Jewish Teen Spaces

By New Voices Editorial Board August 5, 2021

As North American Jews have struggled to come to grips with #MeToo era questions of consent, continuity, heteronormativity, and harm, four writers have come forward to share their personal experiences within Jewish youth spaces’ pressure-based sexual culture at camps and youth groups.

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Consolations For the Self-Hating Jew

By Rena Yehuda Newman July 18, 2021

“Little Jew, you have no / power but the blame / takes the edge off.” A poem for T’sha b’av.

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