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“Got Chutzpah?” A note to my mother

By Michele Amira | Comments Off on “Got Chutzpah?” A note to my mother

February is Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month. Since kindergarten, due to my learning disabilities, social anxiety, and battle with anorexia, I’ve had to have a lot of chutzpah. With anxiety, one needs to be a fighter. I’ve had the most amazing coach in my corner, worthy of Joe DiMaggio. My mother, a guardian angel: […]

Why I choose to be queer — and why that’s inseparable from being Jewish

By Amram Altzman | Comments Off on Why I choose to be queer — and why that’s inseparable from being Jewish

I am queer — and my decision to be queer is a conscious decision. There were times in my life when I wasn’t queer, but it’s been a process through which I have grown into my identity as someone who identifies not as gay, but primarily as queer. And, as I’ve grown into it, that […]

What Kitty Genovese teaches us about Donald Trump

By Samantha Levinson | Comments Off on What Kitty Genovese teaches us about Donald Trump

When my Rabbi first told me about Kitty Genovese, it was my sophomore year of high school. After that, he would often invoke the story of how she was murdered while witnesses stood by. He would use Kitty to make a point about personal responsibility, or accent a story about not standing idly by, or […]

Stop analyzing Bernie Sanders’ Jewishness

By Amram Altzman | Comments Off on Stop analyzing Bernie Sanders’ Jewishness

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Bernie Sanders makes the decision to talk about his Jewishness, specifically how it contrasts starkly with the ways in which Donald Trump talks about Jewishness. Since then, Bernie Sanders has gone on to nearly tie the Iowa caucus with Hillary Clinton and, last week, defeat her in […]

Radio Jewce’s second episode tells an artist’s story in audio form

By Chloe Sobel | Comments Off on Radio Jewce’s second episode tells an artist’s story in audio form

  In the Pacific Northwest, Radio Jewce has turned its looking glass from a goat farm to a young artist. The second episode of Radio Jewce, a podcast focused on Jewish life in the Pacific Northwest, was released three weeks ago and is the first in a “Student Short Series.” It focuses on Elizabeth Goldsmith, […]

Racism isn’t just for fraternities

By Amram Altzman | Comments Off on Racism isn’t just for fraternities

Here at New Voices, we’re no strangers to the questions of Jews and race. And while it seems like we’ve done a good job of beginning a very much needed conversation on the complicated relationship that we American Jews have with race, ethnicity, and privilege — and we’re nowhere near the end of this conversation […]

At Brown, Alpha Epsilon Pi becomes Beta Rho Pi over dissatisfaction with treatment of non-Jews, sexual assault

By Chloe Sobel | 1 Comment

On Nov. 3, 2015, near the end of a year in which rape on college campuses became a national conversation, the members of Brown University’s Alpha Epsilon Pi chapter voted to disaffiliate, in part due to the national fraternity’s handling of sexual assault education. After the disaffiliation vote and expulsion from the international fraternity — […]

Mourning Alan Rickman: It’s not complicated

By Hannah Rozenblat | Comments Off on Mourning Alan Rickman: It’s not complicated

On January 14th, I woke up to a slew of notifications on my phone. Two friends had re-shared on Facebook an old picture a few of us had taken with Alan Rickman at the stage door after seeing him perform in Seminar in January 2012. Another couple of friends had messaged me condolences, saying they […]

Talking about not talking about Israel: Or, addressing the Israel problem

By Amram Altzman | Comments Off on Talking about not talking about Israel: Or, addressing the Israel problem

  We, the American Jewish community, have an Israel problem, and we need to talk about it. It’s not the fact that Israel exists. It’s not the fact that it’s a politically fraught topic to discuss — although that’s certainly part of it. It’s the mere fact that Israel and Zionism as abstract concepts are […]

“If not us, then who:” ‘Nana’ aims to help millennials relate to the Holocaust

By Alexa Kempner | Comments Off on “If not us, then who:” ‘Nana’ aims to help millennials relate to the Holocaust

From a young age, Serena Dykman, a young European filmmaker, has known about the Holocaust. As the granddaughter of three survivors, she not only received a school education on the Holocaust, but a very personal one as well. She has witnessed the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe with the attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium […]

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