Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Photo courtesy of Shay Horse, 30 April 2024. UCLA is silencing the voices of Jewish students who are critical of Israel, an Israeli-American student who is suing the university said Thursday. Binyamin Moryosef, a fourth-year English major at UCLA is among more than thirty students, faculty, and community members who have filed a lawsuit against…
“Right at the moment when I felt the least aligned with Judaism, I was cast in the most Jewish musical in existence.”
While major Zionist organizations lobby to change California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, many Jewish students and scholars across California have a different outlook on the issue – and are being overlooked in the debate.
A new play by Ruth Geye paints a critical, intimate portrait of a modern orthodox student Shabbat lunch, asking, “how much are we willing to mutilate our souls in the pursuit of safety?”
On escaping antisemitic violence through community building, not nation building.
We use social media to put aspects of this manifold conflict on trial, yet these sites are not structured to administer justice.
A statement from the New Voices Editor on the current moment in Israel and Palestine.
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.
Rilke’s translated response to an age-old discourse: “What is to be done with the Jews?”
Capturing the tension between a wide-ranging diaspora and conflict-ridden Jewish state in her new book, “The Full Severity of Our Connection,” author Kayla Cohen navigates questions of peoplehood in a contemporary, global context as a Jewish college student.
“While American Jews continue to care about Israel, Israelis do not care as much about America.”
“It can be hard to find comfort in a world where many of the traditional sources of identity are being reexamined and dismantled.”
“By doing our work here…and by recognizing that we are not as strong or as stable as we thought we were, we are building our roots.” Daniel Crasnow reports on his experiences as an English teacher in Israel during a year of pandemic in a series entitled, “Diaspora English”.
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”.