Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
“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.”
Daniel Crasnow on his visit to the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Haifa.
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 constantly questioning what I think I know, what I think I believe, and who I think my heroes are.”
“Too many young Jews receive the message from our communities that we aren’t Jewish in the right way….That’s why New Voices Magazine’s work to connect young Jewish artists to each other and give our stories and ideas a platform is such a radical project.”
“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.”
“The Rabbis wrote commentaries and we write 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.
An interview with the creators of Judaism On Our Own Terms Hanukkah 5781 Zine.
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.
“While American Jews continue to care about Israel, Israelis do not care as much about America.”
An archival story of how “Summer Children’s Colonies” became known as Jewish diasporic humanitarian aid.
“It can be hard to find comfort in a world where many of the traditional sources of identity are being reexamined and dismantled.”