“Her memories will become monuments”: On Poland, Irena Klepfisz, and the Search for Home
“It was on the plane to Warsaw that Irena Klepfisz’s writing began to feel less like poetry and more like prophecy.”
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
“It was on the plane to Warsaw that Irena Klepfisz’s writing began to feel less like poetry and more like prophecy.”
“More than one group has a pencil for the Book of Life.”
“I watched as the sheep lined up to buy their Famous Amos cookies and Herr’s sour cream and onion chips. While they forked up dollar after crumpled dollar, my grandfather’s wet lips whispered in my ear: sell.”
The ultranationalist rabbi whose successors are now at the helm of Israel’s government had an intimate history with Maryland’s Jewish community — one which has been long-since forgotten.
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.
“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.”
“I am choosing to allow for my discomfort because dialogue is important to me, and I believe that peace will always begin with a commitment towards understanding.”
Sharing the voices of Jewish organizers behind the November sit-in.
“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.”
“In declaring that the only way for Jews to be safe is for Israel to be safe, the safety of Jews everywhere else has effectively been compromised.”
“The Yiddish word haymishe comes to mind… It immediately made sense to me as an equal-parts ironic and sincere evocation of the joy and warmth of Midwestern Jewishness.”
“At this moment of heightened conflict, we must remember, and draw inspiration from the Mizrahi legacy of intersectional activism through the Mizrahi Black Panther Party in Israel.”
Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s graduation address is the latest chapter in a complicated story about Zionism, antisemitism and free speech at one of New York City’s most important universities.
“My grandpa was in the Hitler Youth—now I’m doing a very different thing.”
In June 2023, New Voices published a series of micro-stories about “Queer Jewish Joy”. As hostility toward trans and queer people persists across the country, we can derive strength from the moments that remind us how beautiful it is to be part of the LGBTQIA+ community. As we continue to fight for justice, stories of…