A Seder for Two: Me and Elijah
“Black Jews like myself can often have a double consciousness about how they may be seen in one space or another, and hold serious reservations about entering predominantly-White Jewish spaces.”
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
“Black Jews like myself can often have a double consciousness about how they may be seen in one space or another, and hold serious reservations about entering predominantly-White Jewish spaces.”
“I learned there is almost no chance that I or any of my peers would be able to create enough near-future change to prevent climate catastrophe. When I left my environmental education, I only had hopelessness.”
“As we read a text about Adar, and one about feeling the pain of those suffering, The Fellows wrote our own Torah as a response.”
“I have seen Jewish wisdom anchor chronically ill and disabled people amidst a society that is built, in many ways, to exclude us.”
Through the story of Malachim, our editor reflects on finding belonging amidst war, love, and loss.
“What if I’d pursued another degree, deserted a friendship, or pursued a great love? Dancing around my skull, my dreams pull these threads out from under my brain and smack onto the page.”
“It is true that we are formed from the ‘dust of the Earth’ – we are descendants of space stuff, whether your origin story starts with an apple or a bang.”
New Voices Fellow, Ashton Macklin, shares a collage about our relationships to God in the abstract form.
“Formless and void, tohu v’vohu is the swirling celestial wilderness, before divinity started forming creation. It feels cosmically significant that we have been brought here, now.”
“Let us dance, feel, celebrate the rarity of this fleeting life before we return to stardust in the cosmos / Let us usher our descendants in for a good time.”
“With this siddur addition, LGBTQ+ young adult Jews get to truly share their voices in religious life.”
“It felt so good to not have to pretend everything is fine. To be able to mourn, to bawl in the presence of community without apologizing for the snot and the sound.”
“This was the moment I realized that I, like everyone else in the world, was not exempt from imposter syndrome.”
“The fact that every natural wonder, from the sight of a rainbow to the smell of a spice, is given a brachah – the fact we are commanded to notice the world for what it is and what it offers – is such an awesome thing.”
“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.”