• Skip to main content

New Voices

"A Shanda Since 1971"

  • Magazine
  • About
  • Events
  • Get Involved

Browse by Section

Arts & Culture
Campus & Community
Opinion
Fresh Torah
Investigative Series
Poetry
Fiction

Arts & Culture

View All
Photo Courtesy of Zohare Jacobi

Rejecting Assimilation with Magic: An Interview with Jewitches

By Akiva Colin Haskins | July 4, 2025
In visions of light and liberation, this participatory artist finds the most faith in people.

KOL! Artist Blue Reinhard Imagines a Queer Jewish Future

By Tyler Kliem | June 20, 2025
NV_jewishwriter

A New American Jewish Literature: Rejecting Nostalgia and ‘Authenticity’ for Reckoning and Reflection

By Misha Éanna Schaffner-Kargman | June 9, 2025
Screenshot 2025-05-21 at 8.38.18 AM

“Unholy”: Daisy Friedman Transcends the Student Film

By Mira Simone Kux | May 21, 2025

New Translation: “Monolog in Pleynem Yidish”

By Andy Roshal | May 6, 2025
Graphic by Tyler Kliem

At the Mercy of the Museum: Memory Construction and the Harm of Holocaust Museums

By Ramona Saft | April 25, 2025
Photo by Judy Goldstein

“The Encampments” – Resilience and Free Speech on Campus

By Daniel Kushner | April 11, 2025

October 8 is a Masterclass in American Jewish Narcissism.

By Mira Simone Kux | April 4, 2025
Photo by Lloyd Wolf

Music in Yiddishland – In Conversation with Kleztronica’s Chaia

By Jacob Berman | February 7, 2025
Getty Image

The ‘Feh’ is Coming From Inside the House

By Lauren Hakimi | January 31, 2025

Campus & Community

View All

What’s Next for Jewish Solidarity Organizing with Palestine in the Face of Trump?

By Harlow Raye | May 27, 2025

They’re Good People, I Promise…

By Alex Simón | December 11, 2024

None Of Us Are Safe

By Akiva Colin Haskins | November 6, 2024
Screenshot 2024-10-04 at 12.02.19 PM

Not All Kinds of Jewish

By Dalya Lessem Elnecave | October 4, 2024
Bread & Puppet disciple puppets at Cornell University on the day when Daniel Berrigan escaped from the FBI inside one of them. Via medium.com.

A Call For a Modern Chavurah: Imagining a Future Beyond Hillel

By Jacob Berman | September 13, 2024
Untitled design (10)

10 Articles on Campus Protests, by & for Students

By New Voices Editorial Board | May 22, 2024
Untitled design (9)

Snapshots from Campus

By New Voices Editorial Board | May 15, 2024
1

Snapshots of Campus: Submit Yours

By New Voices | May 13, 2024
Untitled design (8)

A Decade of New Voices Passovers

By New Voices Editorial Board | April 19, 2024
1

“Her memories will become monuments”: On Poland, Irena Klepfisz, and the Search for Home

By Judy Goldstein | April 11, 2024

Opinion

View All
Screenshot 2025-05-04 at 9.44.58 AM

We Are Not Numbers: On recognizing our fellow human

By Eliana Padwa | May 4, 2025
unnamed

Bari Weiss and Jonathan Greenblatt would like you to ignore all those Nazi salutes, thank you very much…

By Akiva Colin Haskins | February 28, 2025
Untitled design (7)

Defying Orthodoxies on Israel/Palestine: A YU Student’s Journey

By Rina Shamilov | April 17, 2024
woman with blue hair flowing to the side, clutching her stomach with closed eyes and a sad face.

Diet Culture Has Permeated the Holiest Spaces of Judaism

By Gila Axelrod | March 21, 2024
Challah and Gumbo Blending my Caju

Saying Hamotzi Over Challah and Gumbo

By Adam Daigle | January 30, 2024
In shaping the Universe, gravity builds a vast cobweb-like structure of filaments tying galaxies and clusters of galaxies together along invisible bridges hundreds of millions of light-years long. This is known as the cosmic web.

The Science of Religion: Observations from a Jewish Astrophysicist

By Victoria Dozer | November 27, 2023
A wooden swing hanging in midair in front of green grass.

I Have Imposter Syndrome and I’m Owning it: A Jewish Media Fellowship Reflection

By Catherine Horowitz | June 13, 2023
Image of a shadowed hand holding a candle against a glowing wall.

Mishpacha: Given and Found

By Elsa Baxter | June 8, 2023
passover-7134802_1920

Jewish Food Rituals in the Age of Diet Culture

By Gila Axelrod | April 3, 2023
a lake and moated house in a snowy woods

A Return to Expression: On Speaking, Misspeaking, and Finding My Voice

By Layla Rudy | March 10, 2023

Fresh Torah

View All
438845953_10159924575038587_1353881889996489136_n

A Seder for Two: Me and Elijah

By Ashton Macklin | April 21, 2024
erjkgbalkejrgnba

“Science is not enough:” How Jewish Tradition Keeps Climate Activists Afloat

By Seth Pollak | April 21, 2024
image of megillah scroll, with a wood grogger, 2 hamentaschen, and a gold mask upon it

Our Adar Hearts

By New Voices Fellows | March 22, 2024
artistic image of shabbat candles, a watch, and a night sky, challah and grass, that says "dream jewish disability justice" and "radical reverent rest"

Shabbat, Chronic Illness, & Radical Rest

By Sophie Hulet | February 15, 2024
IMG_1193

On Covering One’s Eyes

By Julia Hegele | February 7, 2024
moon-4606246_1280

Kislev Dreaming

By New Voices Fellows | December 21, 2023
In shaping the Universe, gravity builds a vast cobweb-like structure of filaments tying galaxies and clusters of galaxies together along invisible bridges hundreds of millions of light-years long. This is known as the cosmic web.

The Science of Religion: Observations from a Jewish Astrophysicist

By Victoria Dozer | November 27, 2023
birkat_kohanim+reverse

Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim): A Vector Collage

By Ashton Macklin | November 10, 2023
lines-6298723_1280

The Wisdom of Tohu V’vohu

By Mx. Mones | October 18, 2023
illustration of a volcanic mountain, blue with yellow fiery splotches, and a small person atop the mountain, holding a sword with white sparks flying from it into a purple sky.

An Environmentalist Attempts a Prayer

By Lauren Elise Fisher | September 29, 2023

Investigative Series

View All
A campfire, glowing yellow and orange and burning atop a pile of woods against a dark background.

The History of Jewish Summer Camp Could Change its Future

By Julia Hegele | June 15, 2023
Queer at Camp

Investigation: How Jewish Summer Camps Are Damaging LGBTQ+ Youth

By Julia Hegele | June 1, 2022
toxic hookup culture lite hatch

Investigation: How Jewish Youth Groups Are Breeding A Toxic Sexual Culture For Teens

By Shira Wolkenfeld | July 13, 2021
Israel 2.6

“Off the Beaten Path,” Part II: At the University of Texas, Ex-Hillel Rabbi Brings Students Where Birthright Won’t Take Them

By Daniel Holtzman | February 6, 2019
UT Austin

“Off the Beaten Path,” Part I: A Campus Rabbi Introduces Students to a Right-Wing Extremist

By Daniel Holtzman | February 4, 2019
rainbow-3662405_1920

Outside Hillel, Northeastern Jewish Students Struggle After Rabbi Leaves

By Hannah Bernstein | December 18, 2018
thunderstorm-3430471_1920

Hillels and Israel, Part II: A Widening Divide at Northeastern

By Hannah Bernstein | November 6, 2018
seagull-768785_1280

Hillels and Israel: How Campus Jewish Communities Are Grappling with Polarizing Politics

By Hannah Bernstein | October 25, 2018

Poetry

View All

Poems from the Encampments

By Anya Kaplan-Hartnett | May 9, 2025

An Ode to Sefarad

By Astera Marcos | April 7, 2025
0-2

New Beginnings: The Haste Land

By Aliza Yona Abusch-Magder | December 9, 2024
Illustration by Orev Kaim

Gufim: Words on Blood, Butches, and Body

By Orev Kaim | June 21, 2024
overheard in the dressing room

Gufim: overheard in the dressing room

By Rebecca Raush | March 28, 2024
Screen Shot 2023-12-19 at 2.38.01 PM

Home Will Not Wait For Us

By Aliyah Blattner | December 19, 2023
Add a heading - 1

Poem in which I am not the sister that kills herself 

By Rebecca Raush | November 22, 2023
illustration of a volcanic mountain, blue with yellow fiery splotches, and a small person atop the mountain, holding a sword with white sparks flying from it into a purple sky.

An Environmentalist Attempts a Prayer

By Lauren Elise Fisher | September 29, 2023

Crests

By Simone Klein | June 30, 2023
An image of two women against a backdrop of three arches, with orange trees behind them. Once of them is wearing a dark purple dress and gold jewelry, with olive skin. The other is wearing a white long sleeve shirt with short brown curly hair. They are sitting with legs intertwined, touching each other's leg and face.

mi kerida / My Beloved

By Astera Marcos | June 27, 2023

Fiction

View All

Geographies of Transgression

By Evan Price | June 28, 2024
8bd1a7c1-5fc0-4aa5-a884-374f1218c228

Bloom

By Rina Shamilov | June 3, 2024
gold

Gold Hysteria

By Clara Goldberg | May 4, 2023
Street Show

Street Show

By Seth Andrew Bearman | October 14, 2022
Jewish Person Binds Their Chest

A Jewish Person Binds Their Chest

By Talia BarNoy | September 1, 2022
Pardes Ten

The Pardes Ten

By Eli Hurwitz | April 29, 2022
muhammad-ruqi-yaddin-7fdkd2_wpXM-unsplash(1)

Women Should Be

By Ella Deutchman | November 4, 2021
jon-tyson-od1pKBU7PKA-unsplash

Waters Of Heaven, Waters Of Earth

By Sophie Hurwitz | September 14, 2021
bird-1541297_1920

Song of Descents

By Adina Singer | May 2, 2019
  • Arts & Culture
  • Campus & Community
  • Fiction
  • Investigative Series
  • Opinion
  • Poetry
  • Fresh Torah
  • Humor
  • Archive
Jewish Service Corps Advertisement
Newsletter
Write for us!

© 2021 New Voices. All Rights Reserved.
Site by Chris Hershberger-Esh, Redesign by Olivia Lee (2025)