“Her memories will become monuments”: On Poland, Irena Klepfisz, and the Search for Home

By Judy Goldstein April 11, 2024

“It was on the plane to Warsaw that Irena Klepfisz’s writing began to feel less like poetry and more like prophecy.”

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The New Jewish Daddy

By Tyler Kliem April 9, 2024

From fashion to music to culture, an exploration of popular past and contemporary Jewish masculinities.

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L’dor V’dor: The Resilience of Ethiopian Jewish Practice

By Ashton Macklin February 21, 2024

“More than one group has a pencil for the Book of Life.”

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Epilogues and Edges

By Relly Robinson November 10, 2023

“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.”

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An image of two women against a backdrop of three arches, with orange trees behind them. Once of them is wearing a dark purple dress and gold jewelry, with olive skin. The other is wearing a white long sleeve shirt with short brown curly hair. They are sitting with legs intertwined, touching each other's leg and face.

mi kerida / My Beloved

By Astera Marcos June 27, 2023

“My beloved’s hair is the color of coffee /
And she drinks from the finest waters in Sefarad.”

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Jewish Futurisms: More Predictions

By New Voices Fellows January 4, 2023

In 5797, there will be a ninth day of Channuka.

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Jewish Media Is Failing Sephardic & Mizrahi Communities. Fixing It Starts Here.

By Lauren Hakimi December 22, 2022

Writers say representation won’t be enough to fix outlets’ coverage of non-Ashkenazi Jewish life.

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We Are What We Will Be: Jewish Media Fellowship Reflection

By Mirushe Zylali June 9, 2022

“What could any of us have done to deserve conquest, genocide or war? How could you possibly try to draw lines on land? Why can’t we be everything that we are?” Mirushe Zylali reflects on a year with New Voices and the Jewish Women’s Archive.

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Precious Sound

By Mirushe Zylali February 21, 2022

Finding healing with ADHD, stimming, and Sephardic kabbalistic musician Victoria Hanna.

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Introducing Yente: Oxford’s Hottest Queer Jewish Zine Collective

By Lily Sheldon February 10, 2022

As we all know, all the best decisions are decided around a cramped gossipy Friday night table.

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Everything Is The Holocaust

By Drew Perkoski January 6, 2022

In a world ruled by Godwin’s Law, how can we reclaim the memory of the Holocaust to fight against today’s real atrocities?

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The Jews Who Celebrate Christmas

By Catherine Horowitz December 20, 2021

As the assimilation dilemma grows, an obsession with “continuity discourse” may be creating more barriers for Jews often shamed for multi-traditional upbringings.

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Decolonizing Through Doykeit: Zine Review

By Miranda Sullivan December 16, 2021

Reviewing the anti-Zionist queer and Jewish “yearbook” series that’s made many diaspora Jews feel less alone.

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I’m A Jew & I Couldn’t Celebrate Rosh Hashanah This Year

By Anonymous September 27, 2021

For young working-class Jews stuck in abusive living situations, ritual observance can become difficult or impossible – a struggle often erased in American Jewish communities, where classism and assumptions of wealth pervade.

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Diaspora English: On A Year of War, Plague, and Turning

By Daniel Crasnow September 9, 2021

Looking back on a year of teaching English in Tel Aviv and Nazareth during a resurgence of violence and a global pandemic.

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