Love Letter To Antisemites
“because I feel most like myself when I start stroking my nose / & projecting my insecurities / onto some tiny piece of land”
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The Pardes Ten
In 5815, ten unconnected Jews in disparate locations will have concurrent experiences of arriving at gan eden.
Queen Esther’s Second Seder
The Talmud says the story of Purim happened over Passover. Who says second night seder isn’t special?
Review: “The Rational Passover Haggadah” by Dennis Prager
Published this week by a conservative Christian media group, New Voices sat down to read Dennis Prager’s new haggadah.
The Goylem, Angels, and Ghosts of “Shmutz”: Zine Review
From EveLilith and shtetl stories to Claude Cahun, Jess Goldman’s “Shmutz” zine dreams up modern Ashkenazi midrashic fiction for today’s Jewish Left.
When The Women Sang Shema
One of the oldest Jewish prayers takes on a new unified meaning early in the morning, with Women Of The Wall
Dear Jewish Queeries: I’m Religiously Observant & My Partner’s An Atheist. Can We Make It Work?
How do I balance a romantic relationship where it’s hard to find common ground in any discussion about religion?
How To Search For An Ancestral Shtetl
For Ashkenazi lineages, what does it take to go beyond Anatevaka and into often-unrecorded personal history?
Start Preparing Early for An Anti-Nationalist Hanukkah: A Zine Review
Reviewing eight nights of radical Hanukkah mini-zines
I’m A Jew & I Couldn’t Celebrate Rosh Hashanah This Year
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.
Yom Kippur As A Call-In Moment
Our day of atonement is Judaism’s built-in ritual for calling ourselves in.
Curating Digital Diaspora
The Editor of UChicago’s undergraduate journal for Jewish studies is changing the format for a many-tongued, virtual Jewish world.
The Synagogue in Tokyo
Meet the little-known Jews of Japan, thriving in the furthest reaches of diaspora
The Tzimtzum of a Jewish Journal
Acts of solitary creation through Jewish journaling practices have grown among young Jews, isolated in the pandemic.
The “Halakhically Curious” Phenomenon
Jewish law has often problematically been taught as a set of dogmatic rules, but a new generation of Jews and Jewish educators are calling for a more intentional vision of halakha.