Revisiting the Jewish American Princess Zine

By Miranda Sullivan July 26, 2021

“While the Jewish American Princess has been weaponized by non-Jews for antisemitic purposes, intracommunally it’s often been used as a caricature to make fun of classist and racist Jewish people.” Welcome to the Jewish Underground Press.

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Welcome to the Jewish Underground Press: Zine Review Series

By Miranda Sullivan July 13, 2021

Our zine review columnist Miranda Sullivan introduces herself — and the Jewish zine-scene of summer 2021.

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The Tzimtzum of a Jewish Journal

By Lila Goldstein May 27, 2021

Acts of solitary creation through Jewish journaling practices have grown among young Jews, isolated in the pandemic.

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I Put a Ring in Your Nose

By Mirushe Zylali May 24, 2021

SCWANA and Balkan Jewish Adornment Today

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Most Decorated Women

By Mirushe Zylali May 14, 2021

SCWANA and Balkan Jewish Stories of Adornment

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Foraging for Jews

By Maya Faerstein-Weiss April 27, 2021

A romance from the New York Mycological Society blossoms into a trek through the world of Jewish urban foraging

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The Jewish Educator’s Distance-Learning Handbook

By Rena Yehuda Newman April 9, 2021

Best-practices gleaned from a new generation of Jewish Educators, making the Zoom makom meaningful.

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On This Very Day, One Pesach Later: A Passover Reader

By Sofia Freudenstein March 25, 2021

After a year of pandemic, one Pesach later, four Jewish students and thinkers have assembled a Passover Seder companion, filled with reflections on a year of plague and visions of redemption.

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Escape the Plagues & Find Liberation: A Pesach Puzzle Game

By Lisa Stein March 18, 2021

Can an escape room be a spiritual endeavor? Can play help us feel connected to the people around us? Can games be holy work? Can puzzles help us engage with the challenging social justice themes of the Passover story?

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Revisiting the Jewish Question

By Jonah Lubin February 25, 2021

Rilke’s translated response to an age-old discourse: “What is to be done with the Jews?”

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Living Memory of the Jewish Left: A Jewish Currents Fellowship Reflection

By Chaya Holch and Miriam Saperstein January 11, 2021

Two New Voices Fellows discuss their year working with Jewish Currents, weaving memory about the Jewish Left through the eyes of the magazine’s lineage of writers and editors.

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Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: The Torah of Zines

By Rena Yehuda Newman December 17, 2020

“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.”

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Eight Nights of Jewish Zines

By Rena Yehuda Newman December 10, 2020

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.

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Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: The JOOOT Hanukkah 5781 Zine

By New Voices Editorial Board December 8, 2020

An interview with the creators of Judaism On Our Own Terms Hanukkah 5781 Zine.

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Illuminating the Diaspora in “The Full Severity of Our Connection”

By Kayla Cohen December 8, 2020

Capturing the tension between a wide-ranging diaspora and conflict-ridden Jewish state in her new book, “The Full Severity of Our Connection,” author Kayla Cohen navigates questions of peoplehood in a contemporary, global context as a Jewish college student.

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