YU’s Basketball Stardom Can’t Dazzle Away Assault Allegations
Yeshiva University’s win-streak is overshadowing the team’s assault allegations. Jewish Press coverage is complicit.
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Yeshiva University’s win-streak is overshadowing the team’s assault allegations. Jewish Press coverage is complicit.
Many young Jews are growing critical of arguments for Jewish continuity that demonize their families or futures.
As North American Jews have struggled to come to grips with #MeToo era questions of consent, continuity, heteronormativity, and harm, four writers have come forward to share their personal experiences within Jewish youth spaces’ pressure-based sexual culture at camps and youth groups.
A conspicuous Jewish presence at an elite university has some side effects
While mainstream Jewish Australian institutions remain right-wing, Jewish communist, anti-fascist, and anti-colonial movements – and memories of them – are bubbling back into awareness for many young Australian Jews.
The 120-year Workers Circle has a fresh branch: a student hub for advocacy, ideas and culture.
More people are curating their surroundings, framed within a Zoom window. Yet, what lies beyond the edges of the composed picture tells deeper stories of the day-to-day.
How Jewish students across America are struggling to keep kosher at COVID colleges.
“I used to feel so ostracized, so stigmatized and isolated because of my leftist beliefs…but I don’t feel like a pariah anymore. The network of support I’ve found with other young Persian Jews is small, but it’s really made an immediate difference in our lives. It feels like there’s been a shift in the ground I’m standing on.”
Though litigation, demonstrations, and civil unrest seem likely, many Jewish students are focused on the pursuit of democracy. “The most important thing to remember is that everything we do is political.”
Part one of New Voices Magazine’s 2020 Election coverage, reporting on Jewish student responses to this historic event.
“Four years after my entry into youth groups, I’ve finally been able to process the harmful culture I was subjected to. Now, I’m more than ready to join a discussion about consent and power in Jewish spaces; there is still much work to be done, and we need participation from the community as a whole in order to create a healthier culture for every Jewish teen.”