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Escape the Plagues & Find Liberation: A Pesach Puzzle Game
Can an escape room be a spiritual endeavor? Can play help us feel connected to the people around us? Can games be holy work? Can puzzles help us engage with the challenging social justice themes of the Passover story?
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: The Torah of Zines
“Zines are a lot like Torah: passed down from generation to generation, with each text inspiring more texts, more commentaries, more sparks, more light. Jewish Zines are like Torah in another way: only you can reveal what comes next.”
A Love Letter to “Timtum: A Trans Jew Zine”
“The Rabbis wrote commentaries and we write zines.”
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: Doykeit Zine Series
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.
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines: Ushpi(zine) by Linke Fligl
“Diasporism offers a path to that future, one of teshuvah (return) and remembering.”
Eight Nights of Jewish Zines
New Voices Magazine has a different kind of light to bring to each night of Hanukkah: Jewish zines. Our Editor is excited to spotlight a series of their favorite independently published zines throughout the holiday, featuring a new zine each day to increase the indie-publishing light alongside the growing glow of the chanukkiah.
Post-Soviet Jews & A Radical Future
“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.
Besamim for Heartbreak: A New Jewish Zine
What happens when two people in an interwoven community break up? A confessional glimpse into ritual and relationships, “Besamim for Heartbreak” braids together archival research, poetry, ritual practice, collage, embroidery, illustration and personal narrative, in a new zine centered around Besamim, the Jewish practice of smelling spices.
“Multitudes of Who I am”: Queer Jewish Songwriting with Syd Bakal
In a day and age of DIY Judaism and Jewish innovation, Syd’s Queer Jewish music is modern revelation: a Jewish practice that draws from tradition and is refreshed with new melodies and media. New Voices has a conversation with Syd to talk about composition, spirituality, queer identity, and creativity in a time of quarantine.
Erev Tu b’Av
New Voices Fellow Miriam Saperstein’s poem on the evening before Tu b’Av, the Jewish celebration of love.
“Youth to Power” Offers Activism 101 for Students
Would reading “Youth to Power” have changed many of my decisions for the good or bad? I’m not sure. But I do know it would’ve made me feel less alone.
Do Jews Believe in Ghosts?: A Jewish Women’s Archive Fellowship Reflection
As I sit around the shabbos table with my friends, my family, I imagine there are others there with us, pulled there out of the past.
“Truth, Self, and Belonging”: A Judaism Unbound Fellowship Reflection
We are very much in the wilderness, traveling together through the desert. This fellowship has revealed to me how much all Jews need Torah – and how much the Torah needs all Jews, especially those who feel most at the edges of the camp.
“The Itch to Create”: A Jewish Currents Fellowship Reflection
I rediscovered the power of art and creativity from the other New Voices fellows; when I write the next niggun, I will send it to them first.