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Our very own Lex Rofes — New Voices opinions editor and student representative on the board of Hillel — has joined forces with J Street U President Simone Zimmerman for a truly cracking op-ed at JTA about Hillel’s pluralism shortcomings: (JTA) — Throughout our four years in college, Hillel as been our home on campus….
I just read this terrific piece in Tablet about Yityish Aynaw, the newest Miss Israel — and the first Ethiopian woman to win the pageant. (“Asked by judges why she deserved the title, Aynaw said it was about time that a black woman wore the crown.”) Very moving, you should go read it, etc. The article…
New Voices has been around since 1991, but the organization that publishes New Voices, the Jewish Student Press Service, has been around since 1970. In the 70s, as I wrote for last Monday’s edition of Jewniverse, there were hundreds of independent Jewish student publications on campuses all over the country. JSPS was founded as a…
Get excited. This is a special behind-the-scenes-at-New-Voices blog post. It’s also an excuse to post the above video here on The Conspiracy. You excited? You ready? This how the sausage gets made at New Voices: I saw something on Facebook about how Sarah Silverman’s sister, Rabbi Susan Silverman, was arrested at the Western Wall in the…
Seeking recent college grad for full-time position: Editor in Chief of New Voices Magazine New Voices Magazine and the Jewish Student Press Service have a full-time job opening for the editor of an online magazine and director of a small non-profit. The start date is flexible, somewhere around late spring/early summer 2013. Applicants will have…
By way of following up on yesterday’s post on a new report about Israeli and Palestinian textbooks: (via quickmeme)
The first ever scientific study of whether Palestinian textbooks actually vilify Israelis as badly as a long-standing pro-Israel narrative claims they do — and vice versa — has poked a big hole in both sides’ version of the argument. In case you were worried anyone might react unpredictably to this news: Palestinian Authority Prime Minister…
The Global Jewish Voice is hiring a new Editor. The position of GJV Editor is for an undergraduate university student, preferably based in the U.S. It lasts for approximately one semester and begins ASAP. The position reports to the Editor in Chief of New Voices. The GJV Editor receives a $500 stipend and has the opportunity to publish…
Actually, if fewer than 1/3 of the people who visit this website this week gave $5, we would raise $5,000 in a week. Or, if fewer than half of this week’s visitors gave just $3. The point is that we’re a lean and scrappy organization with a budget under $100,000. That’s all it takes to engage Jewish college students…
If every visitor to newvoices.org this week gave $5, you would all collectively be donating about one fifth of our annual budget. Click here to make this Chanukah happier for New Voices and the Jewish Student Press Service. You might have noticed we changed the theme of this Chanukah blog post onslaught halfway through the holiday. We just…
That’s all it costs for us to send you our weekly e-newsletter, to put the best thoughts campus Jewry has to offer in your inbox. When one of our emails makes you think, think about this too: It only costs $50 a month to do that. You can help these emails go out in January. Click…
For the low, low price of $25 Jewish college students create the unique, wholly independent journalism you come to us for. Next time your eyes are opened by an article you read at New Voices, just think: It only cost $25 to make that happen. You can make the next one happen. Click here to make this…
A blog post costs us $15. That’s all. Just $15. When you read a blog post here at New Voices and get something out of it, remember this: It only cost $15 to make that happen. How about helping us make it happen again? Click here to make this Chanukah a happier one for New Voices. In an…
When I heard that the rabbi of a Chabad house on a university campus was in trouble for providing alcohol to students, I assumed that I didn’t need to hear any further details to understand what the story was. That led me to write this post. I approached the subject with prejudice and without a…
Sometimes contemporary American is terrifying. And sometimes it’s wonderful. I’ve just discovered that a man called Upendra Chivukula, born in Nellore, India, is running for the U.S. House of Representative in the New Jersey 7th Congressional District. On the home page of his website, one of the images in the rotating banner is this: You’ll…