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“What if I’d pursued another degree, deserted a friendship, or pursued a great love? Dancing around my skull, my dreams pull these threads out from under my brain and smack onto the page.”
“I once wept outside / a Domino’s in Jerusalem while the buses didn’t run, / parted ways with the child who grew up believing / that somewhere home was waiting for her.”
“I am choosing to allow for my discomfort because dialogue is important to me, and I believe that peace will always begin with a commitment towards understanding.”
Sharing the voices of Jewish organizers behind the November sit-in.
“It is true that we are formed from the ‘dust of the Earth’ – we are descendants of space stuff, whether your origin story starts with an apple or a bang.”
When she calls us to tell us she’s in the hospital / She being my sister / Or She being my homeland / We drive to the hospital / It’s Shabbat / We drive to the hospital
A lifelong peace activist, Vivian began her activism as a founding leader of the Jewish Student Press Service – the organization now known as New Voices Magazine.
New Voices Fellow, Ashton Macklin, shares a collage about our relationships to God in the abstract form.
“Even if we somehow managed to get every member back into that living room in Edinburgh, singing the same songs, it will never feel the same. We will no longer have those same strings of connection, varying in strength but never tenderness, weaving between us.”
“My professors teach that we can either pick up a sign and flag and join the protest, or we can pick up a camera and pen to cover the event as a journalist, but never both.”