Dear Jewish Queeries: How Do I Make My Summer Camp More Inclusive?
As Jewish summer camps reopen, one counselor wonders how to make their summer camp more queer-friendly. Jewish Queeries have answers.
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Article Archive
Jewish Queeries Series: The Modern Yentas
Real advice. Real Nice Jewish Queers. Introducing the Jewish Queeries Series.
The Synagogue in Tokyo
Meet the little-known Jews of Japan, thriving in the furthest reaches of diaspora
The Tzimtzum of a Jewish Journal
Acts of solitary creation through Jewish journaling practices have grown among young Jews, isolated in the pandemic.
Not All Time Is For Sale: Keeping Shabbat Under Capitalism
“There are still 25 hours of the week where time holds still, makes room for something quiet and eternal. It is, by its very nature, a world designed to exist outside of capital.”
Foraging for Jews
A romance from the New York Mycological Society blossoms into a trek through the world of Jewish urban foraging
The Medicine In My Jewish Self, The Torah In My Lakota Practice
“When you pray the Lakota way, do you feel like you’re praying to the same God?”
Shabbat Magic
“To my surprise, Shabbat dinners became a predictable and grounding occurrence every week. My mom cooked, I set the table, and my dad and brother cleaned up after the meal. Sometimes it was twenty minutes of near silence then everyone scurried off to their bedrooms again. Sometimes it ended in explosive arguments and someone finishing their plate an hour or two later in the kitchen. But sometimes it worked.”
The Torah of OCD
“The Torah of OCD is simple: it is an important and very serious mitzvah to manage my OCD as skillfully as I am able on any given day, seeking out the support and resources I need to live well and in good health. And it is deeply complicated: I am no longer comfortable theologizing pain.”
The Jewish Educator’s Distance-Learning Handbook
Best-practices gleaned from a new generation of Jewish Educators, making the Zoom makom meaningful.
Diaspora English: First Realizations in Nazareth
I wondered what part of his tour-guide history taught him to step to the back of the group he’s guiding, as he bowed to a religious sight. Was it just a part of getting out of the way— a matter of priorities in which his holy experience need not interrupt our photograph opportunity? Or was there something deeper there— a mutual shame on both our ends.
On This Very Day, One Pesach Later: A Passover Reader
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.
Escape the Plagues & Find Liberation: A Pesach Puzzle Game
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?