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A new type of Jewish education is going beyond the halls of Hebrew School and straight to the hearts of young diaspora Jews.
“I cannot ignore these two incidents. I can’t think of them as tragic coincidences.”
“Antiracist action requires more than protests; it requires community education, eliminating poverty & inequality, and abolishing those institutions which perpetuate racism and cannot be reformed.”
Daniel Crasnow on his visit to the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Haifa.
Two New Voices Fellows discuss their year working with Jewish Currents, weaving memory about the Jewish Left through the eyes of the magazine’s lineage of writers and editors.
“Jewish media is constantly questioning what I think I know, what I think I believe, and who I think my heroes are.”
More people are curating their surroundings, framed within a Zoom window. Yet, what lies beyond the edges of the composed picture tells deeper stories of the day-to-day.
“Too many young Jews receive the message from our communities that we aren’t Jewish in the right way….That’s why New Voices Magazine’s work to connect young Jewish artists to each other and give our stories and ideas a platform is such a radical project.”
“Zines are a lot like Torah: passed down from generation to generation, with each text inspiring more texts, more commentaries, more sparks, more light. Jewish Zines are like Torah in another way: only you can reveal what comes next.”
“The Rabbis wrote commentaries and we write zines.”