New Voices

Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.

About Us

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New Voices - About USPublished since 1991, New Voices is the official magazine of the Jewish Student Press Service, the only Jewish and justice-focused magazine by and for Jews ages 18-24.

The Jewish Student Press Service (JSPS) was established in 1971 as a non-profit to provide quality, student-written articles to the then-thriving network of Jewish campus publications across the country. Many of today’s most accomplished Jewish journalists got their start at the Jewish Student Press Service. Current and past editors of the New York Jewish Week, Forward, Dissent, Jewish Telegraph Agency, Lilith, and Sh’ma are all past contributors to the Jewish Student Press Service. Our alumni have also gone on to staff positions at the New Yorker, L.A. Times, and Columbia and CUNY Journalism Schools.

Today, through New Voices Magazine, JSPS continues its educational mission: a tradition of cultivating the next generation of Jewish journalists, creating media that speaks to young Jews, and empowering Jewish students to hold accountable the institutions that raised them. The magazine is produced by one recently-graduated Editor in Chief and a network of student writers and editors from campuses across the country on a shoestring annual budget. The Press Service is an educational organization, giving hands-on experience in the world of Jewish publication to all its writers and editors.

The Press Service and its many student editors and writers are supported by our Board of Directors, composed largely of previous JSPS editors and writers who remain passionate about the future of Jewish journalism and independent media.

JSPS Historical Papers & Archival Documents

The Jewish Student Press Service (JSPS) was founded in 1971  as a wire service by and for Jewish students to provide quality news articles to the variety of independently published Jewish campus papers and magazines that were cropping up across the country. Though JSPS's publishing work today continues through New Voices Magazine (est. 1991), the articles published by the Press Service are a significant historical treasure trove, documenting the opinions, attitudes, political consciousness, and major questions on the minds of Jewish students from the 1970s-1990s. While many of the physical JSPS archives are housed at the Center for Jewish History, many documents remain in the hands of JSPS and New Voices Editors.

In an effort to make these resources publicly available to researchers, the public, and today's Jewish student journalists, we're attempting to digitize a selection of our archives into easily readable PDFs. Some of our selection was generously donated to New Voices by former JSPS editor Peter Silverman. We encourage our readership community to take a look at these amazing documents - and encourage students and researchers consider these items as prompts, bringing more Jewish writing into the world by citing, using, and remixing the writing of our previous generations of young journalists.

Click the links below to view scanned PDFs of these historical JSPS documents and read what the Jewish student journalists of decades past were writing about.

 

Digitized Editions of New Voices Magazine

Editor in Chief

The Editor in Chief position is a two-year fellowship in independent magazine publishing and non-profit management, responsible for editing, fundraising, and running fellowships & conferences for New Voices. The Editor in Chief is overseen by the JSPS Board of Directors.

Julia Hegele

Editor in Chief, New Voices
Executive Director, Jewish Student Press Service

Julia is a writer, researcher, editor, and zine maker – with six years of experience in publishing under her belt. In a youthful attempt to expatriate, she started her career in student publishing as an Arts and Culture Editor at the Glasgow Guardian, later serving as a columnist for Glasgow University Magazine. Her time in Scotland developed a passion for spotlighting Jewish populations in unorthodox locations, sharing their stories and art through her publication, Golem Zine, which is currently in its fourth iteration. She also served as as Arts and Culture Editor to the indomitable feminist collective, Clitbait Blogs, and contributed to Yente Zine, Potluck Zine, Coin Operated Press, Jewish Zine Archive, and more.

In 2022, Julia penned New Voices Magazine's most-read article ever: an investigation into Jewish summer camps and the treatment of LGBTQ+ youth. A long time New Voices fan, she had the honor of serving as Associate Editor in Fall 2023. Julia has received an MA in Arts and Public Policy from NYU Tisch, and works in her very little spare time as a dramaturg and performance artist.

If she is not behind the editor's desk, you can find Julia somewhere in Brooklyn reading, kvetching, or baking for her friends.

Reach out (and pitch!) to editor@newvoices.org

Board of Directors

The Jewish Student Press Service is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit organization. Our Board of Directors is composed of previous Press Service editors and writers who remain passionate about the future of Jewish journalism and independent media, and others whose lives have been touched by the educational mission of the Jewish Student Press Service.

President: Derek Kwait

Ilana Sichel

Samuel Norich

Benjamin Sales

Janet Heetner

Mik Moore

Sandy Edry

Living memory on the Jewish Left

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