A Yiddish Camp Saga

By Tyler Kliem January 5, 2024

The weeklong trip to Camp Kinder Ring has been around, formally, for 14 years. But, for the first time, yunge mentshn (“young people”) would fill the bunks, and meet the generations that came before.

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Jewish Futurisms: Predictions For The Next Half Century

By New Voices Fellows March 9, 2022

Inspired by Rabbi Joshua Bolton’s poem “Jewish Futurisms,” New Voices Fellows composed their own set of poetical predictions for the next 56 Jewish calendar years.

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How To Search For An Ancestral Shtetl

By Samantha Tener December 8, 2021

For Ashkenazi lineages, what does it take to go beyond Anatevaka and into often-unrecorded personal history?

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The Synagogue in Tokyo

By Oren Oppenheim June 10, 2021

Meet the little-known Jews of Japan, thriving in the furthest reaches of diaspora

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The Jewish Educator’s Distance-Learning Handbook

By Rena Yehuda Newman April 9, 2021

Best-practices gleaned from a new generation of Jewish Educators, making the Zoom makom meaningful.

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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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Post-Soviet Jews & A Radical Future

By New Voices Editorial Board October 2, 2020

“Remember, post-Soviet Jews are here and we are writing our own stories.” Kolektiv Goluboy Vagon’s zine explores post-Soviet queer Judaism, envisioning a transformative diasporic world.

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Two Editors on Revelation and Transition

By Rena Yehuda Newman September 9, 2020

In July 2020, Rena Yehuda Newman became the second transgender Editor of New Voices magazine. As Rosh Hashana approaches and the year changes, Rena Yehuda sits down with their predecessor Daniel Holtzman to reflect on writing, yearning, revelation, and transitioning on the job.

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Spotlighting Unsettled: Deep Reporting From a New Series on Gaza

By Ariella Markowitz March 26, 2019

Media representation of Gaza usually falls into one of two categories. There are programs covering the facts and figures: KALW’s “Gaza Corner” comes to mind, a weekly news program reported by foreign correspondents. The second category is the generalizing documentary project: think Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow, which employs Gaza as a metaphor in a more…

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“Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered” Drew Me in as a Young Jew

By Lev Gringauz April 10, 2018

Jerusalem has long been the center of the world in Jewish life, but not since the time of King David has the city felt so personal and laid bare as it is in Sarah Tuttle-Singer’s new book “Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered.” Interwoven with the fighting, love, loss, and the longing of a mother, it speaks…

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No, Israel, You Can’t Have My Number

By Sarah Asch November 1, 2017

This is how I imagine the Israeli government making the decision to collect the contact information for 350,000 American Jewish college students: I imagine that Naftali Bennett and Bibi met in a dark basement under the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and, in the light of a single candle, recommitted themselves to their a secret plan…

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The Jewish Students of Sumud Freedom Camp

By Sarah Asch June 22, 2017

In Sarura, a village in the West Bank, a group of Jewish and Palestinian activists worked together to raise the first tent in the Sumud Freedom Camp on May 19. The group, which included a number of Jewish students, constructed the camp in the same location where Palestinians were evicted in the 1990s. They did…

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More Inclusive Jewish Spaces Are Possible

By Derek M. Kwait May 27, 2015

Everyone is awkward when they start college. Eventually, most students find a group they feel comfortable with, build a community, and the awkwardness goes away. For students with special needs, however, that awkwardness can become a social stigma with aftereffects that can last a lifetime. People with special needs often report feeling invisible to others,…

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White Whine and South African Jews – A Jew in the Motherland

By Jonathan Katz February 17, 2015

One familiar thing about the United Kingdom for me is that I frequently hear South African accents. Here in the colonial heartland, I have met a lot of folks like me: born to South African [Ashkenazi] Jewish parents abroad, raised abroad, and with varied ties to South Africa. Some, like me, maintain citizenship in South…

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Improving Israel Comes at a Cost: $5

By Derek M. Kwait January 29, 2015

Are you a Jewish student? Are you fed up with the state of American Zionism? Have $5? Good. Click here before April 30, pay the $5, then vote to change things. I can’t explain the process, the necessity, or the candidates better than J.J.Goldberg did in two articles in the Forward, so I won’t try….

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