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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Dispatches from the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice

By Mx. Je'Jae Cleo Daniels May 22, 2022

Hundreds of Jews gathered in Washington DC for the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice. In their own words, here’s why they came.

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Falling in Love, Disabled and On Screen

By Daisy Friedman May 5, 2022

The student filmmaker behind the upcoming short film “Unconditional” tells the story of an interabled lesbian couple’s first intimate evening – and the experiences at Jewish summer camp that inspired her script.

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Between My Derech & The World: Wrestling with Antisemitism & Apostasy

By Mx. Je'Jae Cleo Daniels April 5, 2022

Facing antisemitism as an ex-Orthodox, Queer-Mizrahi Jew in America

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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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The Goylem, Angels, and Ghosts of “Shmutz”: Zine Review

By Miranda Sullivan February 7, 2022

From EveLilith and shtetl stories to Claude Cahun, Jess Goldman’s “Shmutz” zine dreams up modern Ashkenazi midrashic fiction for today’s Jewish Left.

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Dear Jewish Queeries: I’m Religiously Observant & My Partner’s An Atheist. Can We Make It Work?

By Nat El-Hai January 11, 2022

How do I balance a romantic relationship where it’s hard to find common ground in any discussion about religion?

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Decolonizing Through Doykeit: Zine Review

By Miranda Sullivan December 16, 2021

Reviewing the anti-Zionist queer and Jewish “yearbook” series that’s made many diaspora Jews feel less alone.

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Dear Jewish Queeries: I’m Asexual. Is It Worth It To Come Out To My Jewish Community?

By Talia BarNoy November 30, 2021

“Being in queer, Jewish spaces and community used to feel amazing but now feels sad and isolating, a reminder that I’m ‘missing out’ on Hashem’s gift or don’t feel like I can be my full self there. Do you think coming out to someone is worth it?”

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Dear Jewish Queeries: How Do I Make My Summer Camp More Inclusive?

By Talia BarNoy June 28, 2021

As Jewish summer camps reopen, one counselor wonders how to make their summer camp more queer-friendly. Jewish Queeries have answers.

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Jewish Queeries Series: The Modern Yentas

By Nat El-Hai June 23, 2021

Real advice. Real Nice Jewish Queers. Introducing the Jewish Queeries Series.

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Most Decorated Women

By Mirushe Zylali May 14, 2021

SCWANA and Balkan Jewish Stories of Adornment

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The Medicine In My Jewish Self, The Torah In My Lakota Practice

By Samuel Elijah Rose April 21, 2021

“When you pray the Lakota way, do you feel like you’re praying to the same God?” 

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A Love Letter to “Timtum: A Trans Jew Zine”

By Rena Yehuda Newman December 15, 2020

“The Rabbis wrote commentaries and we write zines.”

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