Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Pity Dmitriy Salita. A Jewish  immigrant from the Former Soviet Union, Salita is now a professional boxer in New York and practices Orthodox Judaism. You’d think this would make him pretty unique, a good story for the Jewish papers. But though Salita has gotten some coverage in his community, Yuri Foreman–also an Orthodox Russian Jewish…
This was previously posted at the Shibboleth blog. Shibboleth, aside from being a great name for a publication, is “an undergraduate journal of Jewish thought at Yale.” We at New Voices had a chance to meet a bit of Shibboleth in person at the National Jewish Student Journalism Conference in May. This post brings to…
The Anti-Defamation League decided on Friday to throw its kippah into the ring by opposing the Cordoba Initiative near Ground Zero, which suggests that the ADL is now working to cause anti-Semitism rather than prevent it.  In a world where Oliver Stone is spewing that “Israel has f*cked up United States foreign policy,” Dutch police are forced to go undercover…
For every critic who disparages hip-hop as being all about “booty-shaking†and liquor, there’s a rapper who defies that stereotype by putting out “conscious rap.†This subcategory of the genre often deals with real life problems that the artist faces, everyday dilemmas that are problems common to the artist’s listeners. As an area with its…
At least there is some good news today. There is obviously no Zionist conspiracy to run the world. Given the division in the Jewish community, it’s unlikely the community can agree on who a Jew even is, and the meaning of Judaism. With assimilation  at an all time high, one would think the Orthodox world…
Adam Sales is a graduate student at the University of Michigan. HaRav Yehuda Amital, one of the great contemporary Jewish leaders and thinkers–and one of my personal heroes–passed away in Jerusalem last Thursday night, July 9, at the age of 86. Rav Amital was born Yehuda Klein in Transylvania in 1924, and survived the Holocaust…
After I got home from work today, I pried my hair off my sweat-soaked neck and flopped down on my bed. Flipping on the air conditioning, I turned my computer on and searched for an episode of Friends that I hadn’t seen yet. Knowing there were none, I settled into a re-run, as happily as…
The recent rebroadcast of the summer camp episode of This American Life has me thinking this week about Jew Camp, which will be my name for the camp where I spent the five summers prior to this one. Jew Camp is an odd Jewish summer camp because all of the campers–participants, as we called them–are…
I last blogged about the controversy surrounding Pride Toronto’s decision to ban the group “Queers Against Israeli Apartheid” from marching in this year’s pride parade. Since then, the controversy has done anything but slow down. After the decision, QuAIA accused the city of censoring their freedom of speech, and organized resistance in an attempt to…
Being a comic book nerd is hard enough when people think you have no social life. But is it un-American? Phyllis Chesler seems to think so. In her latest article, Chesler cites how Wonder Woman’s new costume shows American submission to the evils of globalization. Chesler says Wonder Woman’s getup is “non-American, and therefore anti-American 
People love to show how intellectual they are nowadays by drawing historical parallels between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other seemingly similar past events. Thus, Iraq is Vietnam; no, wait, Iraq is the Tripoli Wars; no, wait, Iraq is the Gulf War gone bad… No, wait, says Christopher Dickey, Iraq and Afghanistan should…
Louis Farrakhan is ridiculous. Let me begin by putting that out there. I first came into contact with Minister Farrakhan when I was about 12, when hip-hop stars Ja Rule and 50 Cent sat down for a special “mediation†with him on MTV. Rule and 50 were interviewed separately about their “beef†with one another,…
A Jewish dance troupe in Germany is attacked by young boys throwing stones. Welsh men bandy racial slurs about and tell the Jews to “go home.†Helen Thomas barks out a similar request. What is all of this hatred doing in today’s world? It’s time to take a stand and nip this racism in the…
Egyptian pop heartthrob Amr Diab has many hits throughout the  Arab world, such as “Nour al Ain” and “Habibi.” The one I’ve watched most on YouTube, however, is “Al Quds De Ardina,” which translates to “Jerusalem is Our Land.” There aren’t any subtitles, but the title and music video make the point pretty clear. See if you…
Crossposted to Jewschool You kill 10 people, you go to Texas, they hit you with a brick, that’s what they do. 20 people, you go to a hospital, they look through a small window at you forever. And over that, we can’t deal with it, you know? Someone’s killed 100,000 people, we’re almost going, “Well…