Breaking: UCLA is silencing Jewish critics of Israel, Israeli-American student says
Photo courtesy of Shay Horse, 30 April 2024. UCLA is silencing the voices of Jewish students who are critical of Israel, an Israeli-American student who is suing the university said Thursday. Binyamin Moryosef, a fourth-year English major at UCLA is among more than thirty students, faculty, and community members who have filed a lawsuit against…
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Breaking: UCLA is silencing Jewish critics of Israel, Israeli-American student says
Photo courtesy of Shay Horse, 30 April 2024. UCLA is silencing the voices of Jewish students who are critical of Israel, an Israeli-American student who is suing the university said…
Huckabee Announces Adult Circumcision
BREAKING NEWS: United States Ambassador to Israel Nominee Mike Huckabee revealed during his confirmation hearing that he’s undergone an adult circumcision. When asked what qualified the former Governor of Arkansas…
Bari Weiss and Jonathan Greenblatt would like you to ignore all those Nazi salutes, thank you very much…
At this point, it shouldn’t be surprising. Just weeks after the ADL defended Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration, Steve Bannon throws up what looks like a Nazi…
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Airports make me cry now. As soon as I step foot in Ben Gurion to leave, something in me gives, and the floodgates are opened to so many of the thoughts and feelings I instinctively tamp down on in my day-to-day life. I have traveled quite a bit this past year. To visit colleges in…
This piece is featured in our New Beginnings series, exploring the emergent ideas, emotions, and social upheavals of a new era of progressive Jewish culture. We are writing for a brighter future, while honoring our past. More to come. The Burial Of The Dead How in times of scrutiny and creed We continue to solemnly…
The Penguin, starring Colin Ferrel, Cristin Millioti, and Rhenzy Feliz, released its first episode this week to much praise. A televised sequel/spinoff of Matt Reeves’ 2023 film, The Batman, it plans to show viewers Oswald Cobb’s rise to power in the criminal underworld following the death of Carmine Falcone, aka The Roman. The 8-episode series…
This weekend I had the pleasure of watching the recent film ‘Kneecap’ starring the titular Belfast-based rap trio, Kneecap. With their tracksuits and Beastie Boys-esque beats, one might have approached the film expecting a boyish romp through Belfast or perhaps a simple coming of age flick told through Irish language music. However Kneecap are anything…
Five years ago, after publishing my first big piece, I received an email. How dare you? You’ll be hearing from my lawyers. Or something along these lines. I’d written a basic coverage piece about a local high school party, where red solo cups had been arranged to look like swastikas in a game…
The role of the Jewish artist, as Sasha Jonah Lazer once wrote, is to make diaspora irresistible. Onward. I wouldn’t come to know entirely what this meant until my junior year of college when I enrolled in a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language course at Penn, my home institution. I had already grown my fervor for…
This essay is part of Gufim: Our Jewish Bodies, a 2024 series by New Voices writers that explores embodiment, physicality, and our relationships to our bodies through a Jewish lens. Gufim focuses on disability & chronic illness, eating disorders and body liberation, queer/trans experiences, race/racism, and more. Our writers explore these issues through writing, art,…
“Black Jews like myself can often have a double consciousness about how they may be seen in one space or another, and hold serious reservations about entering predominantly-White Jewish spaces.”