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New Voices | The only Jewish magazine by and for college students .rll-youtube-player, [data-lazy-src]{display:none !important;} Skip to main contentNew VoicesJournalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.Magazine Magazine Browse by Section Archive About About Us Opportunities Jewish Student Press Service Directory JSPS Historical Papers Newsletter Conference Fellowships Write For Us Donate New Voices Summer 2022 Fundraiser Home A Yiddish Camp Saga Tyler Kliem 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. Read More Explore Sections Arts & CultureCampus & CommunityFictionInvestigative SeriesOpinionPoetryFresh Torah CONNECT WITH US Search this website EDITOR'S PICKS Poetry Home Will Not Wait For Us “I once wept outside / a Domino’s in Jerusalem while the buses didn’t run, / parted ways with the child who grew up believing / that somewhere home was waiting for her.” By Aliyah Blattner | December 19, 2023 Read More Campus & Community, Israel-Palestine Past Informs Present as Brown University Arrests 20 Students Sharing the voices of Jewish organizers behind the November sit-in. By Talia LeVine | December 1, 2023 Read More Fresh Torah, Opinion 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.” By Victoria Dozer | November 27, 2023 Read More About New Voices Published since 1991 by the independent non-profit Jewish Student Press Service, New Voices is the only Jewish and justice-focused magazine by and for college students. Get New Voices in Your Inbox Get a weekly newsletter of our latest investigations, opinions, and news coverage. Name Please enter your name. Email Address Please enter a valid email address. Subscribe! Thanks for subscribing! Please check your email for further instructions. Something went wrong. Please check your entries and try again. Browse by topic: Queer Jewish JoyQueer Jews Hillel Israel-PalestineJews of Color Independent Jewish Communities Anti-Semitism Zionism Anti-Zionism Civil Disobedience Immigrant Justice Disability Justice Grief Podcasting Mizrahi Ritual Talmud Diaspora Jews by Choice Interfaith Gender Food Kashrut Yiddish Sex Student Organizing #MeToo AnxietyShoahHalacha A “Die-In” at Bard College By Misha Schaffner-Kargman | December 28, 2023 Campus & Community, Israel-Palestine “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.” Kislev Dreaming By New Voices Fellows | December 21, 2023 Fresh Torah “What if I’d pursued another degree, deserted a friendship, or pursued a great love? Dancing around my skull, my dreams pull these threads out from under my brain and smack onto the page.” Poem in which I am not the sister that kills herself  By Rebecca Raush | November 22, 2023 Israel-Palestine, Poetry When she calls us to tell us she’s in the hospital / She being my sister / Or She being my homeland / We drive to the hospital / It’s Shabbat / We drive to the hospital  Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim): A Vector Collage By Ashton Macklin | November 10, 2023 Fresh Torah New Voices Fellow, Ashton Macklin, shares a collage about our relationships to God in the abstract form. Epilogues and Edges By Relly Robinson | November 10, 2023 Campus & Community “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 By Julia Hegele | November 3, 2023 Arts & Culture 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.  An Environmentalist Attempts a Prayer By Lauren Elise Fisher | September 29, 2023 Fresh Torah, Poetry “Let us dance, feel, celebrate the rarity of this fleeting life before we return to stardust in the cosmos / Let us usher our descendants in for a good time.” Our Yesterdays And Our Tomorrows By Elizabeth S | August 8, 2023 Other “To love is to gamble on the promise that our todays will envy our tomorrows.” © 2021 New Voices. All Rights Reserved. Site by Chris Hershberger-Esh