YU’s Basketball Stardom Can’t Dazzle Away Assault Allegations

By Dylan Caine January 18, 2022

Yeshiva University’s win-streak is overshadowing the team’s assault allegations. Jewish Press coverage is complicit.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Intermarriage

By Drew Perkoski November 17, 2021

Many young Jews are growing critical of arguments for Jewish continuity that demonize their families or futures.

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Stories From The Toxic Sexual Culture of Jewish Teen Spaces

By New Voices Editorial Board August 5, 2021

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.

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What’s New With The Workers Circle College Network

By Noa Baron and Brit Zak June 16, 2021

Two student activists on the politics and vision behind a new Jewish socialist youth collective.

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A Closer Look at WashJew

By Micah Sandman June 7, 2021

A conspicuous Jewish presence at an elite university has some side effects

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Peeling Back the Mythology of the Australian Jewish Left

By Mika Benesh May 25, 2021

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.

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Student Organizers Form The Workers Circle College Network

By Noa Baron and Brit Zak January 27, 2021

The 120-year Workers Circle has a fresh branch: a student hub for advocacy, ideas and culture.

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The New Jewish Educator-Activists of Instagram

By Ellanora Lerner January 20, 2021

A new type of Jewish education is going beyond the halls of Hebrew School and straight to the hearts of young diaspora Jews.

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The Spaces We Zoom From

By New Voices Editorial Board December 29, 2020

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.

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In Pursuit of a Kosher Campus

By Dionna Dash November 9, 2020

How Jewish students across America are struggling to keep kosher at COVID colleges.

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Meet the Young, Progressive Voter Constituency Budding in Los Angeles’ Persian Jewish Community

By Sophie Levy November 5, 2020

“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.”

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Jewish Students Buckle Down for Lingering Election

By Rena Yehuda Newman November 4, 2020

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.”

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How Jewish Students Prepare for the 2020 Election

By Rena Yehuda Newman November 3, 2020

Part one of New Voices Magazine’s 2020 Election coverage, reporting on Jewish student responses to this historic event.

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Beyond Continuity: Speaking Out Against Toxic Hookup Culture in Jewish Youth Groups

By Lila Goldstein October 30, 2020

“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.”

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A Strike Against Despair

By Miriam Saperstein September 21, 2020

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, a University of Michigan undergraduate reflects on the sense of possibility unleashed by the grad student strike.

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