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Pity Dmitriy Salita. A Jewish  immigrant from the Former Soviet Union, Salita is now a professional boxer in New York and practices Orthodox Judaism. You’d think this would make him pretty unique, a good story for the Jewish papers. But though Salita has gotten some coverage in his community, Yuri Foreman–also an Orthodox Russian Jewish […]
This was previously posted at the Shibboleth blog. Shibboleth, aside from being a great name for a publication, is “an undergraduate journal of Jewish thought at Yale.” We at New Voices had a chance to meet a bit of Shibboleth in person at the National Jewish Student Journalism Conference in May. This post brings to […]
The Anti-Defamation League decided on Friday to throw its kippah into the ring by opposing the Cordoba Initiative near Ground Zero, which suggests that the ADL is now working to cause anti-Semitism rather than prevent it.  In a world where Oliver Stone is spewing that “Israel has f*cked up United States foreign policy,” Dutch police are forced to go undercover […]
Maya Beiser went from the kibbutz to Yale to the soundtracks of big-budget movies. Now she’s released an album with tracks ranging from a cello rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” to modern takes on 15th-century Spanish songs. New Voices has the interview
For every critic who disparages hip-hop as being all about “booty-shaking†and liquor, there’s a rapper who defies that stereotype by putting out “conscious rap.†This subcategory of the genre often deals with real life problems that the artist faces, everyday dilemmas that are problems common to the artist’s listeners. As an area with its […]
At least there is some good news today. There is obviously no Zionist conspiracy to run the world. Given the division in the Jewish community, it’s unlikely the community can agree on who a Jew even is, and the meaning of Judaism. With assimilation  at an all time high, one would think the Orthodox world […]
The Israeli government, along with the Jewish National Fund, has unveiled several extensive projects to bring a larger supply drinking water into Israel. But, says Danielle Barmash, those projects do not address the core issue of the Israeli water shortage: ever-increasing demand.
Adam Sales is a graduate student at the University of Michigan. HaRav Yehuda Amital, one of the great contemporary Jewish leaders and thinkers–and one of my personal heroes–passed away in Jerusalem last Thursday night, July 9, at the age of 86. Rav Amital was born Yehuda Klein in Transylvania in 1924, and survived the Holocaust […]
What began as a research appointment in the Agricultural Ministry of Malawi turned into a conversation about life, family and why such different people can also be so similar
After I got home from work today, I pried my hair off my sweat-soaked neck and flopped down on my bed. Flipping on the air conditioning, I turned my computer on and searched for an episode of Friends that I hadn’t seen yet. Knowing there were none, I settled into a re-run, as happily as […]