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It is the miSinai, conventional wisdom in media that the future is in convergence. Convergence is the idea that you produce content that can be repackaged in a variety of media. For instance, let’s imagine that we at New Voices still have our print edition, but we also have a podcast and regular video pieces. Then, […]
J Street U got confirmation that its Birthright trip was good to go. Then Birthright found out about it. Was the trip proposed and declined, approved and cancelled or shut down due to political pressure? And what does it mean for the Zionist conversation on campus?
Some pray, some preach and others paint. Organized by UF Hillel, Rosh Chodesh was given an artistic touch. Do Art, an interactive art and pottery shop in Gainesville, Fla., held the first Rosh Chodesh event of the semester by bringing together amateur and professional artists alike. The two hour, girls-only event was paid for up-front […]
I never had a genuine snow day before I came to college. My school district prided itself on never delaying the power of education because of wind or weather. My childhood found me schlepping to school in spite of the whirling white flakes. So, you can imagine my girlish delight when it was declared that […]
J Street U issued a statement yesterday that its Birthright trip had been cancelled, but today Birthright issued a statement of its own saying that it never approved the J Street U trip in the first place, and that J Street U cannot facilitate a Birthright trip because J Street has an overt political stance […]
New Voices has just confirmed that the planned J Street U Birthright trip has been canceled. On Jan. 25, J Street U, the campus arm of J Street — the pro-Israel, pro-peace lobby in Washington, announced that it would be leading a Birthright trip called “Explore Israel: Progressive Zionism and Social Justice” this summer. The […]
Shyne received some much deserved love from the New York Times a while back. And at this point, I would guess that virtually everyone knows Matisyahu. But not everyone knows of Y-Love. A convert to Orthodox Judaism, Y-Love first gained an interest in the faith after seeing a commercial for a Jewish festival on television […]
Are you a senior in college? Are you looking for a Jewish job? If so, we want to hear about you! New Voices is partnering with the Jewish Daily Forward to report on Jewish students looking for work in the Jewish world. If you or a college student you know wants a job with a […]
What if Helen of Troy was Jewish? Is it possible that Greek myth’s most legendary beauty was an MOT? That proposition is a bit far-fetched, but ancient sources record that the Spartans and Jews may have been related. Is that tale even true, though, or is it a product of later political impositions? According to […]
Yesterday, we published a story about the final semester of Yiddish classes at the University of Maryland, College Park, and about the general decline of Jewish communal interest in academic study of Yiddish. We have just confirmed with Director Hayim Lapin, however, that the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies there recently secured $120,000 in funding […]