Second Generation Survivors
Are the kids alright? How the parenting styles of Holocaust survivors transmitted trauma to the next generation and beyond.
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Article Archive
Revisiting the Jewish Question
Rilke’s translated response to an age-old discourse: “What is to be done with the Jews?”
Diaspora English: Saying Goodbye to Students in Tel Aviv
“I’ll never forget seeing the kids light up as they are given the chance to work with me. I’ll never forget hearing them repeat new words under their breaths in order to memorize them. And I’ll never forget having to say ‘hello’ to twenty kids between the time I walked into school, and the moment I reached my classroom.”
Diaspora English: The Youth Village
Daniel Crasnow on his visit to the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Haifa.
Living Memory of the Jewish Left: A Jewish Currents Fellowship Reflection
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.
“Jewish Media Is…”: An Unsettled Fellowship Reflection
“Jewish media is constantly questioning what I think I know, what I think I believe, and who I think my heroes are.”
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: The Torah of Zines
“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.”
A Love Letter to “Timtum: A Trans Jew Zine”
“The Rabbis wrote commentaries and we write zines.”
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines
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.
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: The JOOOT Hanukkah 5781 Zine
An interview with the creators of Judaism On Our Own Terms Hanukkah 5781 Zine.
Illuminating the Diaspora in “The Full Severity of Our Connection”
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.
Diaspora English: An American Election in Israel
“While American Jews continue to care about Israel, Israelis do not care as much about America.”
Arts & Crafts, Bonfires, and USDA Flour Sacks: The Little-Known History of Global Jewish Summer Camps
An archival story of how “Summer Children’s Colonies” became known as Jewish diasporic humanitarian aid.