The Past, Present, and Future of Independent Jewish Student Organizing

By Sarah Wolf May 16, 2022

An unearthed history of the North American Jewish Students Appeal and its legacy of independent, alternative Jewish student life is more colorful than Hillel wants you to know.

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The Internet Of Queer Jewish Girlhood

By Alexa Hulse April 12, 2022

Digital spaces like jGirls+ act vital online communities for an under-researched group of Jewish youth, seeking precious few places to negotiate gender, sexuality, and religion.

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The Continuing Conversation On Jewish Youth Hookup Culture

By Lila Goldstein March 15, 2022

Notes from “New Perspectives on Jewish Youth Hookup Culture,” a panel event hosted by New Voices Magazine, Lilith Magazine, and the Jewish Women’s Archive.

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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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In These Times: A Letter to the New Voices Community

By New Voices Editorial Board May 13, 2021

A statement from the New Voices Editor on the current moment in Israel and Palestine.

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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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