Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
The Reading List is back! Albeit with less regularity. And it’s the summer. So it’s Summer Reading. Israel has a hockey team? Ice hockey? And they win things? [Tablet] Once again, republicans are predicting Jews are going to leave the Democratic party in droves–for real this time! And once again, they’re dead wrong. [Philadelphia Inquirer] Once…
Earlier this week, in my video eulogy for JDub Records, I wrote about the impending loss of JDub as a loss of some measure of honestly come by culturally Jewish coolness: Perhaps the saddest thing about it is that the official Jews try so hard–and fail so spectacularly–to market Jewishness to us as the epitome…
I actually gasped out loud when I read the press release this morning: I’m writing to let you know that after almost 9 years in operation, JDUB’s Board of Directors has decided to wind down the organization. There are Jews all over the place creating brand new pieces of Jewish art and culture, but very few…
This story may sound familiar: On a free summer trip to Israel, a group of college students visited the Western Wall, drank in Tel Aviv, met with Israeli soldiers and had an encounter with a group of Bedouin in the Negev. But this story has a twist: This trip was not funded or organized by Birthright–this trip was provided by J Street U, the college arm of J Street, a lobby that describes itself as, “The political home of pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans.”
J Street U’s first summer Israel trip ran from June 13-23, taking its 14 participants to many of the standard stops for a Birthright trip, but also gave participants a look at a side of Israel that Birthright trips are barred from seeing.
Summer means less for you to read at New Voices. But it also means more for you to write. Or edit. Or take pictures of. Or blog about. Or…
A couple of days ago, in Putting a Crimp in the Hookah, the New York Times wrote about increasing concerns about the health risks that hookah smoking poses. Several states and college campuses have recently introduced or are considering new rules about hookahs and hookah bars. But the Jewish corner of the blogosphere’s friendly neighborhood…
By now, we’ve all heard about how the hyper-orthodox “newspaper” Der Tzeitung photoshopped Hillary Clinton out of a photo because it would be immodest to see women existing in reality or some such…. And most people have responded with total outrage. I skipped right past the outrage and onto the laughter because these guys are…
New Voices blogger Max Moncaster recently discovered the Hitler YouTube parodies. He sent me one and suggested we might make it the subject of the Round Table this week. The one that caught his fancy was this one, in which Hitler can’t find Waldo: For those whose heads aren’t as firmly planted in the internet…
Those crazy West Bank settlers have created a video game for us young people so we can have fun while learning to agree with the settlers. Right. [Tablet] The greatest bracket you will ever see is the annual Name of The Year competition, which I take very seriously. So let’s all give Shalom Dreampeace Compost…
We at New Voices have become a little obsessed with Jewish college a capella recently. With all of the buzz/hate/fascinated disgust that Rebecca Black’s Friday video has been getting, we’ve been wondering, WHERE’S THE SHABBOS PARODY VIDEO?! Not that there no parody videos out there, but they’re all beyond terrible. They’re just more painful than the…
The Conservative movement recently unveiled its new strategic plan. The Reform movement recently announced the identity of its new leader. The Conservative strategic plan’s original draft would have killed Koach, the Conservative college group. Thanks to the efforts of a group of Koach members, the new version preserves it. Two years ago, a round of…
Ben Smith at Politico has spotted the Jew in the Obama reelection launch video! Watch the video below to see if you can find it, then click through to Politico for Smith’s answer. [Politico] Oscar Goodman, the mayor Las Vegas is a gin-swilling gambler with showgirls at his campaign events. And now his wife is…
Crossposted to The Reform Shuckle JewishBoston.com, the genius website that every other federation in the country should be clamoring to imitate, has created a new haggadah, “The Wandering is Over Haggadah.” Much to the delight of people who get bored during the seder, they claim that this haggadah’s version of the seder should take only…
How did Rahm Emanuel become mayor of Chicago? Maybe it was all because of the efforts of the Jewish media conspiracy, which has apparently completely overrun TV news in the Windy City. This cover story from the Chicago Jewish News–cleverly headlined, “And in local news, JEWS”–points out that no less than three Chicago television stations…
Facebook removes page calling for third intifada… and a new page saying the same thing appears. [Haaretz] If you haven’t read Jeffrey Goldberg’s defense of J Street in the face of the McCarthy Knesset investigation of the group, you should. And manages to critique them at the same time. [The Atlantic] Time is all over–kind of–Eliezer, the…