Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Crossposted to The Reform Shuckle I received an email today asking about siddurim for Hillels. I’ve anonymous-ized the email here: “I’ve followed your blog for a while–love it, by the way!–and read your post about Mishkan T’filah for Travelers. Right now, I’m working for the Hillel at the [University of XYZ], and this is one…
The new Reform Judaism Magazine just arrived and it’s got a big section called the Insider’s Guide to College Life. Let’s parse some of it! The first section, a Q&A with Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro, is about the economics of financing college. Their first question is, “Why is college tuition so expensive–up to $50,000…
As a follow-up to our link yesterday to the story of the Israeli solider posing on Facebook with prisoners, Breaking the Silence points out that photos like that are not only commonplace, but far from the worst they’ve seen. [Haaretz] Here’s a novel idea: Israel wants the US to sell weapons Arabs, because everyone in…
It’s a funny world we live in when reviews get reviewed by the creators of that which they review. Which is not a criticism of anyone. It’s just an observation. Yesterday, New Voices published three reviews of the revised edition of “Jewish U,” a book for Jews about to enter college about what to expect from…
In this take on “Jewish U,” the reviewer–a student at the small Drew University in New Jersey–takes the author to task for focusing too much on Hillel and talking down to students.
On more of a college note than a Jewish note, the votes are in! Forbes has their annual report on college rankings available. My beloved Drew University came in at #91. [Forbes] The ossified Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations has issued a call for everyone to stick out their tongues and say nanny…
Ramadan Mubarak! Ramadan, the Muslim month of sunrise-sundown fasting, began earlier this week. I am always intrigued by the ways that non-Muslims interact with such a profound and seemingly extreme period of self-denial. So for this week’s Sunday Brunch edition of The Reading List, we’re looking at how Jews–and other non-Muslim Americans (I’m suddenly wishing…
Crossposted to Jewschool Riddle: What is neither a mosque nor located at Ground Zero, but is on Twitter? Answer: Park 51! (This can be confusing though. It’s called the Ground Zero Mosque by people using it as en election wedge issue and by those who buy into their rhetoric. The institution itself, once its built will…
Crossposted to Jewschool Despite Women of the Wall leader Anat Hoffman being banned from the Kotel plaza for 30 days, Rosh Chodesh services proceeded today in the plaza and concluded, as usual, with a Torah service at Robinson’s Arch. And they live-tweeted the whole thing! Among other things, they tweeted: Proof that police + rules…
The ad above has been approved by the MTA to run on New York City buses and subways after the ad’s creator threatened a law suit. [Gothamist] With suspect reasoning, here’s a claim that childless Jewish women are less engaged with their Jewish identity and the Jewish community. The best part: “I don’t know any…
Good morning, class. Here is your reading list. Haaretz reports that the Israeli government tried to cover up the Waqf’s secret excavations on the Temple Mount. Did Senator Lindsey Graham go against Abe Lincoln and the Bible in advocating the repeal of the 14th Amendment? asks Rabbi Andy Bachman. An American university president and Clinton-era…
As noted in Ben’s pre-Shabbat post, we’re starting a new feature here at the New Voices blog called The Reading List, a daily round-up of links from around the Jewier corners of the interblogotwitsphere. Our goal is to do a beefier edition on Sundays, for your Sunday brunch reading pleasure. This Sunday section will feature…
Man, like two minutes after I posted below about the J Street U internships, I see Tablet has an internship this fall too. It’s just that time of year. Anyway, Tablet is looking for a paid design intern for the fall, accepting undergrad juniors and seniors as well as grad students. Full info here. Happy…
Yo. I’m generally opposed to unpaid internships. But if you’re into them and you’re into J Street, their fall internships might be worth taking a look at. They’re looking for interns for their Boston, LA, DC, NYC and Chicago operations. Full info here.
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…