Lists of Colleges For Jewish Students, Ranked

By New Voices Staff September 5, 2017

In the Jewish world, this has been a school year of many lists – particularly lists of the best and worst colleges for Jews. As the one and only national online magazine for Jewish college students, we’ve decided to add our voice to the mix and create a list of our own – a ranking…

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AMCHA releases web page collecting testimonies of anti-Semitism on campus

By Jackson Richman July 24, 2015

The AMCHA Initiative, a watchdog organization that works to investigate and combat anti-Semitism in American universities, launched a new web page last month to collect testimonies from students of on-campus incidents. Director and co-founder Tammi Rossman-Benjamin said AMCHA created the page because of concern over a rise in campus anti-Semitism. “We hear regularly from Jewish…

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Romancing the Sephardi

By Max Daniel February 25, 2014

There’s been a bit of news about Sephardim lately. Although the  attempt began a few years ago, the Spanish government recently announced a more concerned effort at paving the way for Sephardim – ancestors of those Jews expelled in the Inquisition of the 15th century – to acquire Spanish citizenship. The ways of determining who…

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Overcoming My Eating Disorder, Publicly

By Simi Lichtman February 14, 2013

This articles deals with the topic of eating disorders and may be triggering to some people The Beacon, an online publication for the Orthodox Jewish community (and, incidentally, the paper I helped start two years ago), is tackling an important issue this month, with first-person narratives and various other articles related to eating disorders. The…

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Jewish Journalism: Exploiting or Explaining?

By Simi Lichtman December 27, 2012

A couple of days ago, I sat down to write an article about the Newtown tragedy for the Huffington Post. When I stood up an hour later, I looked at what I had written and realized the shooting and the media surrounding it had affected me more strongly than I had thought. I wound up…

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Post-Modernism, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Profile Pics

By David A.M. Wilensky October 5, 2012

Aside from supplying the world with news by and about Jewish college students, we’re also a training ground for the next generation of Jewish journalists. A new post today  at The Forward’s Sisterhood blog by occasional New Voices contributor Rachel Cohen is today’s proof of that. In the post, Rachel uses Anne-Marie Slaughter’s controversial piece in…

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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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Why we should sanction Iran, even though it won’t work [Parsing]

By David A.M. Wilensky January 19, 2012

I listen to NPR’s Planet Money podcast to understand basic news about the economy because it puts things simply. And because I don’t know my head from my ass when it comes to economics. But sometimes they take hard economics and deploy it as a way of looking at something in the news in a…

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Moving Forward

By Ben Sales May 10, 2011

Announcing our new office and new editor in chief! At around this time two years ago, I found out via a five-minute phone call that I would be the next New Voices editor and director of the Jewish Student Press Service. About six weeks later I began my first day in a room cluttered with…

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