A Yiddish Camp Saga

By Tyler Kliem January 5, 2024

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.

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The Wisdom of Tohu V’vohu

By Mx. Mones October 18, 2023

“Formless and void, tohu v’vohu is the swirling celestial wilderness, before divinity started forming creation. It feels cosmically significant that we have been brought here, now.”

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Young Queer Jews are Adding Their Voice to the Siddur

By Eden Rosenfeld September 14, 2023

“With this siddur addition, LGBTQ+ young adult Jews get to truly share their voices in religious life.”

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The Moss Maidens, a play about teen girls seducing and killing Nazis, is making history

By Gila Axelrod August 4, 2023

“There’s this catharsis in getting to kill Nazis on stage, knowing they would have wanted to kill you.”

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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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Mishpacha: Given and Found

By Elsa Baxter June 8, 2023

“Zadie’s fork clatters on the table, startling me. So, he says, taking a breath to steady himself, I have been told that you are gay.”

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A sketchbook laid out on a green background with two images of a transmasculine individual, one looking to the right and colored with blue and orange, the other facing away, toward a circle of light that emanates in blue and orange around the paper.

Born Again in the Bathroom Mirror: a Transmasculine Euphoric Poem

By Levi Metzger June 2, 2023

“I didn’t know what G-d looked like until I met Him this afternoon in the bathroom mirror.”

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Gold Hysteria

By Clara Goldberg May 4, 2023

I could see it all through a foggy haze, Kit and I forming a new life built up from the rotten wood and busted stone, broken pieces melded together to be whole again.

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Tattoos / Freedom

By Riley T March 24, 2023

“It felt so right, I could almost understand why God said no; no human should be allowed to experience the amount of joy and love from such a simple interaction.”

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Why Did “Indecent” Become An Overnight Classic?

By Catherine Horowitz January 12, 2023

The play by Paula Vogel became an immediate theater phenomenon. It hasn’t stopped captivating audiences and gracing student stages. What explains its unusual success?

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Jewish Queeries: Summer Frolic Compendium

By Nat El-Hai July 8, 2022

The Jewish guide to the love, lust, and everything undefinable that comes with the summertime gaiety of 5782.

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D’var Torah: How To Protect Our Queer Jewish Kids

By Rena Yehuda Newman July 6, 2022

“Growing up as a people means facing frightening frontiers – including the intimate landscapes of our own bodies. Yet, we can build a safer, more loving Jewish gender and sexual future.”

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#SaveSadeh: Europe’s Only Jewish Farm Faces Eviction

By New Voices Editorial Board June 15, 2022

The potential closure of Sadeh Farm puts the future of a global Jewish farming movement at stake – especially for Jewish youth.

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Falling in Love, Disabled and On Screen

By Daisy Friedman May 5, 2022

The student filmmaker behind the upcoming short film “Unconditional” tells the story of an interabled lesbian couple’s first intimate evening – and the experiences at Jewish summer camp that inspired her script.

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“God of Vengeance”: A Seminal Script in the Fight to Reclaim Jewish Identity

By Noga Levy-Rapoport May 3, 2022

A play written by Sholem Asch in 1906 hasn’t stopped being relevant to questions of Jewish identity – especially for queer Jews.

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