Revisiting The Campus Archives
How student activists use the power of archives to serve the local cause they’re fighting for.
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Rena Yehuda Newman
D’var Torah: How To Protect Our Queer Jewish Kids
“Growing up as a people means facing frightening frontiers – including the intimate landscapes of our own bodies. Yet, we can build a safer, more loving Jewish gender and sexual future.”
Consolations For the Self-Hating Jew
“Little Jew, you have no / power but the blame / takes the edge off.” A poem for T’sha b’av.
The Jewish Educator’s Distance-Learning Handbook
Best-practices gleaned from a new generation of Jewish Educators, making the Zoom makom meaningful.
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: The Torah of Zines
“Zines are a lot like Torah: passed down from generation to generation, with each text inspiring more texts, more commentaries, more sparks, more light. Jewish Zines are like Torah in another way: only you can reveal what comes next.”
A Love Letter to “Timtum: A Trans Jew Zine”
“The Rabbis wrote commentaries and we write zines.”
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines
New Voices Magazine has a different kind of light to bring to each night of Hanukkah: Jewish zines. Our Editor is excited to spotlight a series of their favorite independently published zines throughout the holiday, featuring a new zine each day to increase the indie-publishing light alongside the growing glow of the chanukkiah.
Jewish Students Buckle Down for Lingering Election
Though litigation, demonstrations, and civil unrest seem likely, many Jewish students are focused on the pursuit of democracy. “The most important thing to remember is that everything we do is political.”
How Jewish Students Prepare for the 2020 Election
Part one of New Voices Magazine’s 2020 Election coverage, reporting on Jewish student responses to this historic event.
Two Editors on Revelation and Transition
In July 2020, Rena Yehuda Newman became the second transgender Editor of New Voices magazine. As Rosh Hashana approaches and the year changes, Rena Yehuda sits down with their predecessor Daniel Holtzman to reflect on writing, yearning, revelation, and transitioning on the job.
Up All Night: A Shavuot Zine for 5780
Staying up all night to learn Torah for Shavuot is an old tradition – so why not print out a zine to enhance your at-home, quarantined learning experience?
“Truth, Self, and Belonging”: A Judaism Unbound Fellowship Reflection
We are very much in the wilderness, traveling together through the desert. This fellowship has revealed to me how much all Jews need Torah – and how much the Torah needs all Jews, especially those who feel most at the edges of the camp.
Learning Torah While the World is Burning
Returning from a short break, after sitting in a small lawn outside between classes and reading the New York Times’s inside look at the squalid conditions in an American concentration camp in Texas, complete with maps demarcating where children are held in cinderblock cells and auxiliary tents for overcrowding, I stare at the wall of prayerbooks and wonder: How can I learn Torah while the world is burning?
Revelation and Renovation: A Shavuot Zine
This zine was created by Rena Yehuda Newman, who is a 2019 fellow with New Voices and Judaism Unbound. It was originally published on Judaism Unbound’s website.