The Continuing Conversation On Jewish Youth Hookup Culture

By Lila Goldstein March 15, 2022

Notes from “New Perspectives on Jewish Youth Hookup Culture,” a panel event hosted by New Voices Magazine, Lilith Magazine, and the Jewish Women’s Archive.

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Investigation: How Jewish Youth Groups Are Breeding A Toxic Sexual Culture For Teens

By Shira Wolkenfeld July 13, 2021

For decades, major Jewish youth groups have cultivated pressure-based teen sexual cultures, leaving Jewish youth without support or education about sexuality and consent.

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Beyond Continuity: Speaking Out Against Toxic Hookup Culture in Jewish Youth Groups

By Lila Goldstein October 30, 2020

“Four years after my entry into youth groups, I’ve finally been able to process the harmful culture I was subjected to. Now, I’m more than ready to join a discussion about consent and power in Jewish spaces; there is still much work to be done, and we need participation from the community as a whole in order to create a healthier culture for every Jewish teen.”

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Why Is Conservative Judaism Losing Millennials? Rabbi Wernick Answers

By Lev Gringauz March 14, 2018

Rabbi Steven Wernick knows that he is abandoning Conservative Jews on college campuses. As CEO of the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism since 2009, Wernick saw KOACH, the campus wing of the Conservative Movement, shut down on his watch in 2013, drawing ire from many Conservative leaders and students. Almost five years later, I caught…

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Jewish Youth Movements Support Students Protesting Gun Violence

By Lev Gringauz March 5, 2018

Jewish high school students want to celebrate Shabbat by protesting gun violence, and their Jewish communities are stepping up to help. Rabbi Steven Wernick, CEO of the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism, recently announced that USY (United Synagogue Youth) would support students wishing to attend the Washington D.C. March For Our Lives, a rally to…

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What’s Behind Israel’s Veil?

By Evan Traylor February 10, 2015

For so many young Jews in North America, the idealistic images seen on particular trips with organizations including NFTY, BBYO, Young Judaea, USY, and especially Birthright, come to define our views of Israel. After my first trip to Israel, when I spent 4 weeks exploring Israel with my camp and NFTY friends, I immediately felt…

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My Jewish Masculinity is not Disposable

By Amram Altzman December 29, 2014

My egalitarianism started out as a compromise: it gave me most of the traditional liturgy and observance I’d grown up around, while also giving me the modernity and progressive attitudes I’d been surrounded by for most of my life. It allowed me to cling to the tradition of my childhood and the feminism and liberalism…

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A Scavenger Hunt for Jewish Community

By Dani Plung May 8, 2014

This is a busy week at the University of Chicago. For one thing, we students are consumed with the mid-quarter rush of exams and paper due dates. This week in particular, though, we are also exceedingly busy non-academically—if you can imagine anything but academics ever occurring at the University of Chicago. Two major events are…

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Because college students LOVE to read The Jewish Week…

By David A.M. Wilensky October 12, 2010

Why do I read The New York Jewish Week? Is it their exciting coverage of relevant issues? Is it their scintillating design sensibility? Actually, it’s because I work for New Voices and it’s good to read the rest of the Jewish press so that I know what’s going on. Given that most Jewish college students don’t have…

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