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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 […]
“With all the languages you learn, Akiva,” he told me, “you can’t let yourself forget your mother tongue.”
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 […]
I. Looking “The right to look is not about merely seeing. It begins at a personal level with the look into someone else’s eyes to express friendship, solidarity, or love. That look must be mutual, each inventing the other, or it fails.” – Nicholas Mirzoeff, “The Right to Look” Growing up, I hated davening. The […]
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, […]
As long as I remember, I have maintained a belief in the Evil Eye. To me, this boils down to the simple idea that the way you speak, whether about yourself, other people, or future events, can have an effect on what comes to pass. In addition to this, I believe in the power of […]
“God willing—בְּעֵזְרַת הַשֵׁם—ان شاءالله—they all have homes to return to, and dolls to dig out of the mud.”
“We’d been flirting for over a week now, but being in an Orthodox Jewish seminary made it hard for us to actually do anything.”
Student journalists have worked tirelessly to report on campus protests and related events. As the school year comes to a close, we’ve combed through student papers to bring you 10 articles that tell stories from the ground – through student testimonies, digital archives, live reports, and photography.