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Halloween gives you candy. Purim gives you Hamantaschens. After slowly recovering from the ODing on poppy seed hamantaschens, and getting the noise of groggers out of my head, I look back on this past Purim and describe it in one word: scandalous. Every year, my congregation puts on a Purim Spiel. The play tells the […]
I admittedly know little about Yiddish. My great-grandmother spoke it. My grandma can understand it. I used to get called a chazer (pig) on account of my messy room. But I had to pause when I saw this interview with K. David Harrison. A linguistics professor at Swarthmore College, he had this to say about […]
You don’t know me, but my name is Laura and I’ve found my way here from my everyday blog. We can’t go on until I tell you a secret, though. I’m converting. I hate saying it, not only because it leads into telling my whole life story, but because it’s rather deceptive. It implies that I’m […]
This week, we asked our bloggers, “Purim, St. Patrick’s Day and Spring Break all came around the same time this year. What was your craziest experience from one of the three?” Carly Silver: I ran into a boa constrictor. My craziest spring break experience didn’t involve Purim or St. Paddy’s day, but it did have […]
Sarah Palin is in Israel this week. And she’s shocked, shocked, to find out how hard it is to get to Bethlehem from Jerusalem. [Tikun Olam] Meanwhile, the Republican Jewish Coalition is in tizzy because Palin organized her trip through an organization other than the Republican Jewish Coalition. [JTA] In other bad-for-hasbarah news, Katsav was […]
Baking has always been a huge part of my family’s Jewish identity. In my household, each holiday and Shabbat requires some sort of sugary confection, be it brownies for an ordinary Friday night or sufganiot for Chanukah (P.S. I don’t recommend making these if you don’t like oily doughnuts). Lucky for me, my spring break […]
Over the course of my (nearly) four years attending Hillel services on a near-weekly basis, I have had many different experiences. My first week of college, I was appalled by the un-spirited service-attendees and minimalist ultra-Reform service my Hillel offered. It worked for a few, but not for me. The following year I was thrilled […]
In New Voices’s first installation of the new Bloggers’ Round Table feature (props to Ben and David for this, I think it’s a great idea), I and several other NV bloggers offered our thoughts on the propriety of Brandeis Hillel’s rejection of the campus JVP chapter. You should read it – check out the comments […]
Your concerned New Voices editors enjoy reading Jewish news to find out about issues and events involving our fellow MOTs. But even more than that, we enjoy scouring Jewish publications for the occasional reference to the greatest movie–nay, latter-day holy text–of all time: The Big Lebowski. So now, faithful readers, we challenge you: Can you […]