Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Two new machzors, one from the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the other from a professor at Rutgers University, have come out just in time for the High Holy Days. New Voices Editor at Large David AM Wilensky reviews them both,
Elle Weiss reviews Michelle Lang’s “Lady Lazarus,” which features a title character who leaves pre-war Budapest to fight a Nazi army of imps, demons and werewolves–all to save Eurpoe’s Jews
Maya Beiser went from the kibbutz to Yale to the soundtracks of big-budget movies. Now she’s released an album with tracks ranging from a cello rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” to modern takes on 15th-century Spanish songs. New Voices has the interview
In “The Prophet’s Wife,” his unfinished work, Milton Steinberg delves into the tortured lives of Hosea and his harlot wife Gomer, brining obscure Biblical figures to life with vivid emotion.
For Joel Chasnoff, a native of the Chicago suburbs, serving in the Israeli Army seemed like a good way to give back to the Jewish state. What followed was a year of inspiration, disillusionment, danger and revelation. Miriam Mogilevsky reviews Chasnoff’s “The 188th Crybaby Brigade.”
Etgar Keret, an acclaimed Israeli author and filmmaker, talks with New Voices about potheads, politics and levitating in love.
In his “Empowered Judaism,” Elie Kaunfer writes that the independent minyan movement has the power to save American Judaism. But will it become yet another denomination, or will it have the capacity to transform American Jewish life?
Rich Jews and Me: A short fiction piece about a day in Jewish Pleasantville.
The success of the Shoah movie and what “Inglorious Basterds” is doing to it
Redrawing the very good book