Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Even though I’m a Zionist and a Jewish woman, I’m also an eternal Pollyanna. I truly believe that all people are good. I have spent a lot of my ink here begging people not to hate on the Cordoba Project, a lot of my free time pleading with my fellow Jews to remember many happy…
Dear Mr. Vick, It is my understanding that you live in Jerusalem and act as correspondent for Time Magazine. Based on what you wrote in your last article in the September 13 issue of Time, I find this hard to believe. How can you live in Israel and insist that Israelis are not interested in…
Gmail. Facebook. Twitter. University of Florida e-mail. I’ll admit it, I’m addicted. As a student at the University of Florida, Monday through Friday I see students plugged in, tweeting, texting, spacing out and status updating (for what has to be the fifth time in an hour). On the bus or at the Southwest Recreational Center,…
Maybe, says Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC). Citing their activities in South America, She has called for a US task force on the issue–to no avail. [Charlotte Observer] That’s not the only problem in Washington. Obama has long faced criticism from the Jewish right on his stance toward Israel, but a James Besser says that his…
When I first began my college search, or perhaps it’s better to say when my mother started suggestively leaving college pamphlets on my desk, I refused to acknowledge a life after high school. The prospect of recreating myself and re-establishing my Jewish identity in a foreign environment frightened me enormously, but I needn’t have worried….
Those readers who have been following the daf yomi (“Daily Page” – a popular global Talmud study initiative) will have been having a good time recently. The program is currently working on the middle of Tractate Avodah Zarah, which deals with relationships between Jews and non-Jews generally, but has a lot of other good stuff…
Haaretz reported today that in the best example of “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” one in three Spaniards is anti-Semitic. Jeff Goldberg insightfully points out that one in five Spaniards is actually of Jewish descent. [Jeff Goldberg] But while they may be hating on us in Madrid, there’s nothing but…
What do a fictional British agent and Jewish men have in common? Two words: androgenic hair. For non-science majors, and those who never searched “body hair” on Wikipedia, androgenic hair is a fancy word for the hair that develops during and after puberty. If, after the preceding lines, you are scared to read on, rest…
It’s been just a week since I returned from a Hillel Leadership Retreat with a sore back, campfire-smoke in my hair, and a beaded bracelet (well, a piece of string with four beads) on my wrist. But it feels like it’s been a lot longer than that–those of you in college realize the time warp…
In shades of the Abbie Hoffman tradition, TPM has alerted us that Brandeis students are fighting back against the anti-Muslim words of New Republic editor Martin Peretz, a 1959 Brandeis alum (who is Jewish). Peretz wrote: And among those Muslims led by the Imam Rauf there is hardly one who has raised a fuss about…
My rabbi made a bold move during his d’var Torah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah services this year. After a brief word on Park 51 earlier in the service, in which he condemned the bigoted opposition in the strongest terms I could have imagined, I wasn’t expecting too much more fire and brimstone, especially on…
A basket in the Lower East Side’s Bialystoker Synagogue chronicles a century of weddings, as recorded in the kippot. [NYT] Less than half of all Israelis see themselves as secular. “8% of Jewish Israeli adults define themselves as ultra-Orthodox, 12% as religious, 13% as traditional-religious, and 25% as traditional but ‘not very religious,’ according to…
Today is the Fast of Gedaliah, traditionally observed because Yishmael ben Netanyah, a Jewish extremist, murdered Gedaliah ben Ahikam, the final Jewish Babylonian-appointed governor of the Land of Israel, and the last Jew to govern the land before 1948. I think, though, that the rabbis instituted the fast because they needed a cool-down period after…
Looking at a map of the United States, one notices a clustering of Jewish populations at the corners. The well-known nucleus is New York City. But Jewish settlement extends throughout the Northeast, even creeping north of the border, to Toronto and Montreal. In South Florida, Miami and the beaches and cities that surround it host…
I’m a new face here at New Voices. None of you know me, and I don’t know any of you yet.The first thing I want to do is say that I hope your New Year has been sweet so far. Because let’s face it, shall we? For some of us, 5770, in many ways, totally…