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The Kvetch-Up: Robots may be the future of Israel activism

By Chloe Sobel | March 7, 2016

Welcome back to our weekly news round-up, where we try our long-winded best to summarize the Jewish news of the week. If you read something here that you want to say something about, get in touch: editor@newvoices.org. Yesterday, the Vassar Student Association voted to pass a resolution that called for it to politically support the BDS…

‘Gay!’ vs. ‘Goy!’: Examining ‘Manliness’ in Yeshiva vs. Public High Schools

By Yitzi Turniansky | November 20, 2014

This semester, I read C. J. Pascoe’s Dude, You’re A Fag, an ethnography of a typical American public high school. To summarize some of Pascoe’s “findings” (I put “findings” in quotes because to most teenaged American boys, what follows may come as no surprise), high school boys become men in a two-part process: 1) embracing…