Starting a DIY Klezmer Group with the Hava Nagila Principle
Klezmer is all the rage. The New Voices Disorientation Guide is here to show you how to start the Jewish band of your dreams.
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Got Enemies? Try a Jewish Incantation Bowl
Scholar Shira Eliassian talks incantation bowls, demon divorces, and feminist historical narratives.
Review: “These and Those” Tests The Limits of Jewish Safety
A new play by Ruth Geye paints a critical, intimate portrait of a modern orthodox student Shabbat lunch, asking, “how much are we willing to mutilate our souls in the pursuit of safety?”
Love Letter To Antisemites
“because I feel most like myself when I start stroking my nose / & projecting my insecurities / onto some tiny piece of land”
“Link” by The Melbourne Jewish Labor Bund: Zine Review
Zine review columnist Miranda Sullivan reviews the third edition of “Link”, Melbourne’s Jewish Labor Bund Zine, which carries on an over-a-century-long tradition of Jewish socialist publishing.
The Pardes Ten
In 5815, ten unconnected Jews in disparate locations will have concurrent experiences of arriving at gan eden.
Jewish Futurisms: Predictions For The Next Half Century
Inspired by Rabbi Joshua Bolton’s poem “Jewish Futurisms,” New Voices Fellows composed their own set of poetical predictions for the next 56 Jewish calendar years.
How To Search For An Ancestral Shtetl
For Ashkenazi lineages, what does it take to go beyond Anatevaka and into often-unrecorded personal history?
Dear Jewish Queeries: My Mom Wants Grandchildren, But I Don’t Want Kids
Broader Jewish culture will have us believe that “being fruitful and multiplying” can only exist within a heterosexual context. This culture may create the means for “Jewish multiplication” but at the cost of whose fruitfulness?
The Tzimtzum of a Jewish Journal
Acts of solitary creation through Jewish journaling practices have grown among young Jews, isolated in the pandemic.
The “Halakhically Curious” Phenomenon
Jewish law has often problematically been taught as a set of dogmatic rules, but a new generation of Jews and Jewish educators are calling for a more intentional vision of halakha.
Foraging for Jews
A romance from the New York Mycological Society blossoms into a trek through the world of Jewish urban foraging
Living Memory of the Jewish Left: A Jewish Currents Fellowship Reflection
Two New Voices Fellows discuss their year working with Jewish Currents, weaving memory about the Jewish Left through the eyes of the magazine’s lineage of writers and editors.