Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
In Friday’s Required Reading, we featured a short article by Gavriella Lerner on “ex-frum” stories and the implications they have for Orthodox Jews. The article follows the publication of “Unorthodox,” the story of a young woman who flees a Satmar Chasidic community. The book is gaining momentum in the public eye. But Lerner’s not sure…
Does the Catholic Church ‘demonize’ Israel? [YNet] Has the Catholic Church drawn a line between Judaism and Zionist thinkers, to the detriment of the current discourse over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? In this piece from YNet, Giulio Meotti argues that the Church is embracing a dangerous notion of anti-Zionism. Could this temper further Jewish/Catholic interreligious dialogue?…
Israeli security detain Harvard students… wait, what? [The Harvard Crimson] 55 Harvard students were detained Tuesday by Israeli border security during a trip to the West Bank. The students were visiting a Palestinian town. Afterwards, the trip’s guide was apparently arrested. And for what? That’s all a bit unclear. The Harvard Crimson reports: “‘There was…
Jewish food is making a comeback with the help of Gefilteria, which brings Old World food into New York of the twenty-first century. The minds behind this start-up – Jacqueline Lilinshtein, New Voices alum Elizabeth Alpern, and Jeffrey Yoskowitz – aim to help revive a tradition that, when done right, doesn’t remain in the 1800s,…
Though the popular perception of a rapper usually includes a a humongous diamond necklace (see: Rick Ross’ chain with a pendant depicting his own face), tattoos covering every visible inch of one’s body, and a trace of marijuana smoke trailing up behind one’s head. In the past few years, though, many new faces have popped…
Outing, after Admission [New York Times] College diversity programs are looking to expand and bring outreach to another historically discriminated against minority – the LGBT community. In the past, a handful of colleges, either overtly or covertly, have targeted gay students as part of their diversity outreach programs. Now, the University of California system proposes, admitted…
Exactly what they sound like. “Obama yarmulkes.” This year, “Jewish Students Wear Their Politics on Their Heads” (clever, PR-guy-who-sent-me-this-press-release. Very clever) with the reemergence of kippot branded with the Obama’s campaign logo. Don’t be confused, the Obama campaign actually has nothing to do with this. Though the story goes Obama got a real kick out…
What can you do in 15 seconds? You can listen to the intro of a song, or take a sip of your soda. You can scan the morning headlines, kiss your loved ones good bye. Or, you could live in Sderot, and in 15 seconds you can watch your whole world fall apart. Sderot is…
Holocaust survivor, female rabbi remembered with Anne Frank anecdote [Tablet] Following the passing last week of Rabbi Helga Newmark, famed for being the first female survivor of the Shoah to be ordained, Tablet Magazine shares this anecdote about Newmark’s experience with Anne Frank (who she knew growing up). Newmark leaves behind a legacy of Jewish…
You’ve waited all year for it. And now it’s finally time to register for the National Jewish Student Journalism Conference! Get excited. It’s on Facebook. This year’s conference will take place May 20-22, 2012 at the NYU Bronfman Center in New York City. It’s sponsored by New Voices Magazine, the Jewish Student Press Service and The Jewish Daily…
It’s not always immediately obvious to the casual observer what the real difference is between Orthodox and Modern Orthodox Judaism. Actually, even to me, the two communities, on the surface, seem pretty similar. So one of us likes to think we’re modern. We’re cutting edge. But when you walk into shul on Hoshana Rabba and…
41 years ago today, the Jewish Student Press Service (the wire service that preceded New Voices Magazine and the name of the organization that still publishes New Voices) was front page news in The New York Times. Yesterday morning, I went by the American Jewish Historical Society, with the current JSPS board chair, Mik Moore….
I shudder to think that violence is being hailed as a legitimate and necessary solution to any problem, much less the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has been through far too much bloodshed already. But Rabbi Donniel Hartman disagrees. So maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I don’t have the torah expertise that he has, maybe I don’t…