“Her memories will become monuments”: On Poland, Irena Klepfisz, and the Search for Home
“It was on the plane to Warsaw that Irena Klepfisz’s writing began to feel less like poetry and more like prophecy.”
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
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The New Jewish Daddy
From fashion to music to culture, an exploration of popular past and contemporary Jewish masculinities.
Gufim: overheard in the dressing room
“Survival is shattering the mirror / trusting the tree to support you.”
Diet Culture Has Permeated the Holiest Spaces of Judaism
Is it possible to disentangle fasting from the connotations of weight loss and dieting, and maintain its religious value?
Saying Hamotzi Over Challah and Gumbo
The mission to turn my family’s Cajun recipes Kosher went much deeper than just the food.
The Ins and Outs of 2024 (by the Jewish Media Fellows)
One unhinged writing session later, after great deliberation, and quite possibly spitting out water onto our computers, we bring you… the definitive in/out guide for 2024.
When Kahane Came to Campus
The ultranationalist rabbi whose successors are now at the helm of Israel’s government had an intimate history with Maryland’s Jewish community — one which has been long-since forgotten.
A Yiddish Camp Saga
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.
A “Die-In” at Bard College
“As the war continues, students search for an outlet for their grief, and ways to do something that feels meaningful. But constraints like social anxiety, institutional pressure, and blacklisting have made activism difficult.”
Opinion: Demonizing Each Other Hurts Us All
“I am choosing to allow for my discomfort because dialogue is important to me, and I believe that peace will always begin with a commitment towards understanding.”
Past Informs Present as Brown University Arrests 20 Students
Sharing the voices of Jewish organizers behind the November sit-in.
The Science of Religion: Observations from a Jewish Astrophysicist
“It is true that we are formed from the ‘dust of the Earth’ – we are descendants of space stuff, whether your origin story starts with an apple or a bang.”
Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim): A Vector Collage
New Voices Fellow, Ashton Macklin, shares a collage about our relationships to God in the abstract form.
Epilogues and Edges
“Even if we somehow managed to get every member back into that living room in Edinburgh, singing the same songs, it will never feel the same. We will no longer have those same strings of connection, varying in strength but never tenderness, weaving between us.”
Review: Havurah’s First Jewish Short Film Festival
The films ranged from poignant renderings of love and loss of faith to high energy concepts toying with the forms of Judaism and film alike.