Not All Time Is For Sale: Keeping Shabbat Under Capitalism

By Ezra Lebovitz April 29, 2021

“There are still 25 hours of the week where time holds still, makes room for something quiet and eternal. It is, by its very nature, a world designed to exist outside of capital.”

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Shabbat Magic

By Gali Davar April 16, 2021

“To my surprise, Shabbat dinners became a predictable and grounding occurrence every week. My mom cooked, I set the table, and my dad and brother cleaned up after the meal. Sometimes it was twenty minutes of near silence then everyone scurried off to their bedrooms again. Sometimes it ended in explosive arguments and someone finishing their plate an hour or two later in the kitchen. But sometimes it worked.”

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Diaspora English: First Realizations in Nazareth

By Daniel Crasnow April 7, 2021

I wondered what part of his tour-guide history taught him to step to the back of the group he’s guiding, as he bowed to a religious sight. Was it just a part of getting out of the way— a matter of priorities in which his holy experience need not interrupt our photograph opportunity? Or was there something deeper there— a mutual shame on both our ends.

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Second Generation Survivors

By Tara Silberg March 10, 2021

Are the kids alright? How the parenting styles of Holocaust survivors transmitted trauma to the next generation and beyond.

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The “Ish” In Jewish

By Jillian Crocetta February 16, 2021

Wrestling with a multi-faith identity.

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Shouting “I am a Jewish Educator!”: A Judaism Unbound Fellowship Reflection

By Rebecca Lubow December 22, 2020

“Too many young Jews receive the message from our communities that we aren’t Jewish in the right way….That’s why New Voices Magazine’s work to connect young Jewish artists to each other and give our stories and ideas a platform is such a radical project.”

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A Love Letter to “Timtum: A Trans Jew Zine”

By Rena Yehuda Newman December 15, 2020

“The Rabbis wrote commentaries and we write zines.”

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Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: Doykeit Zine Series

By New Voices Editorial Board December 14, 2020

For the fifth night of Hanukkah, New Voices presents this interview about the Doykeit zine series with JB Brager, the editor of a now four-part collection of writing on themes of queerness, anti-zionism, and diaspora.

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Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: Ushpi(zine) by Linke Fligl

By New Voices Editorial Board December 13, 2020

“Diasporism offers a path to that future, one of teshuvah (return) and remembering.”

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The Antisemite’s Ashtray

By Chaya Holch November 27, 2020

Should we bury our shame or laugh at it?

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Arts & Crafts, Bonfires, and USDA Flour Sacks: The Little-Known History of Global Jewish Summer Camps

By Rebecca Tauber November 11, 2020

An archival story of how “Summer Children’s Colonies” became known as Jewish diasporic humanitarian aid.

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The Enneagram as Jewish Holidays

By Rebecca Lubow September 24, 2020

Do you know your enneagram type? Find out which Jewish holiday celebrates you best!

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Diaspora English: Quarantine in Israel

By Daniel Crasnow September 18, 2020

Part one of an ongoing correspondence with New Voices Magazine, Daniel Crasnow reports on his experiences as an English teacher in Israel during a year of pandemic in a new series entitled, “Diaspora English”.

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The Bunk Tales Project: Jewish Camp Counselor Stories

By New Voices Editorial Board August 17, 2020

Read New Voices Magazine’s new series, “Bunk Tales: Jewish Camp Counselor Stories” for reflections from camp counselors across the Jewish camping world.

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Erev Tu b’Av: Annotated

By Miriam Saperstein August 4, 2020

Erev¹ Tu b’Av² twilight where flesh and sorrow tumble in fields not sure the end of each or where beginnings tremble moonlight scoops my armpits arches my back hands reach down to lift me from a shallow grave³ then I help another out of theirs we promise to return some night leave the longing earth…

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