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As I said yesterday, there will be Kol Nidrei at Zuccotti Park among the Occupy Wall Street folks tomorrow night. By way of an update on the logistics, here is a message that went out to everyone who has RSVPed to the Facebook event (all links and strikethroughs inserted by me): Thank you for joining us…
Today in New Voices, Geoffrey Edelstein reviews “Bad for Jews,” a new book about Jewish celebrities by Scott Sherman, a “Colbert Report” staff writer. The book has illustrations of each celebrity it deals with by New Yorker cartoonist Andy Friedman. If you go read the review, you’ll see a great likeness of Seth Rogen. The…
My three-week academic study trip to Poland withnine other graduate students set off on Thursday, June 30. We were going, as students of history and the Holocaust, to look at modern issues concerning Jewish-Polish relations. We arrived in Krakow, smack in the middle of the Jewish Culture Festival, which as we learned pretty quickly, is…
The realization that my office is a five-minute walk from Zuccotti Park, home base of Occupy Wall Street, combined with my excitement about the plan that was announced yesterday to hold Kol Nidrei in the park convinced me to spend my morning among the protesters. There’s plenty you can read about Occupy Wall Street out…
Including responses to recent on-campus agitation, tales of Jewish campus life back in the day and more, there is plenty to digest this week about college Jewry. J Street U leader Logan Bayroff has an op-ed in the Forward calling for a more open, less polarized dialogue about Israel on campus in response to Hillel‘s…
Greetings, readers of New Voices, my name is Alan Borenstein and I am a part of the Israel Teaching Fellows program. There are several ITF groups sprinkled about the country. My group, based in Rehovot, has Israeli counterparts with whom we will work and learn with throughout the year. My ITF group is administered by…
Daniel Sieradski is organizing a Kol Nidrei minyan in at Zuccotti Park, home base of the Occupy Wall Street folks, at 7 p.m. this Friday night. I don’t believe it’s set in stone yet, but Rabbi Arthur Waskow may be delivering a devar and or leading the service. Sieradski is looking for knowledgeable service leaders….
To be perfectly honest, I had to Google the term “Traditional Egalitarian” when I decided to write this piece. If admitting that hasn’t robbed me of all of my credibility, allow me to make it worse: the results were sparse and mostly unhelpful, so I had to then call my own personal Google, my dad….
As former New Voices editor Josh Nathan-Kazis rightly points out, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg oddly implied a common Jew/New Yorker identity in his Rosh Hashanah message: MAYOR BLOOMBERG WISHES NEW YORKERS A SHANAH TOVAH U’METUKAH “When shofars sound in synagogues and community centers across our city on Rosh Hashanah, New Yorkers customarily say ‘Hayom…
So we have this new blog coming out soon called the Global Jewish Voice. And we have this little problem… It doesn’t have an editor. If you or someone you know is a college student with experience editing a blog, especially a college blog, drop me a line at david@newvoices.org for more information. We gonna…
On Friday – the second day of Rosh Hashanah – United States Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) announced the birth of his first child: a son, weighing in at a healthy 8 lbs. and 12 oz. According to a short notice posted on the Boulder Weekly, Polis joked that the boy – named Caspian Julius –…
Does Justin Timberlake look Jewish to you? The Tennessee-born hitmaker might not be a member of the Tribe, but he’s set to play one in Spinning Gold, an upcoming biopic about Neil Bogart. The late founder of Casablanca Records, Bogart was a Jew from Brooklyn who introduced the world to musical acts like KISS. The…
During my interview with Kosha Dillz, he mentioned how rappers often portray Jews as “record label executives and lawyers who hoard rappers’ cash.” I decided to do a bit of research, and it turns out that he’s right – pretty much all the references to Jews in hippity-hop are as lawyers or rich kids—in fact, Jewishness…
My name is Amanda Winer and I am a Jew. Sounds like I’m in an AA meeting or something, eh? The reason I introduce myself as such is twofold. Firstly, I fully acknowledge that this is an important part of my identity. Secondly, I helps to put this entire blog in context. This is who…
The Irvine 11 were convicted on Friday of conspiring to disrupt and then disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at UC Irvine. Our own Gabe Schivone interviewed one of them, Taher Herzallah. Making the rounds online: a nifty graphic showing which countries will support the PA’s statehood bid at the U.N. Finally, Jewish…