Julia Hegele

Feb 7, 2024 | newvoices.org | Julia Hegele

Elijah is told to wait for G-d on the mountain side. A great wind whips down the side of the mountain and shatters ancient stones like glass. An earthquake rips the land into pieces, and a great fire smelts the earth into ashes. Elijah watches, terrified. G-d is in none of these awesome feats, emerging only after the carnage, in the still, small voice that compels Elijah to cover his eyes and emerge from his hiding place to hear G-d’s wisdom. I’m afraid to say I’ve never felt completely Jewish.

Nov 3, 2023 | newvoices.org | Julia Hegele

On the third of October, the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan hummed with contentment as Havurah launched its first ever Short Short Film Festival. A vibrant collective of college-aged Jewish creatives, Havurah is dedicated to the notion of reconnecting contemporary Jewish life with the tradition of artistic and spiritual expression.

Oct 25, 2023 | newvoices.org | Julia Hegele

Fancy Feast is giving you exactly what you paid for. Whether you’re seeking a velvety, intimate peak behind the curtains of New York nightlife, a stark illustration of the treatment of sex-retailers, or a poignant treatise on pleasure’s place in activism, the Jewish burlesque icon delivers a scintillating, blisteringly funny, intimate collection of stories that stick in your brain like hard candy on teeth.

Oct 13, 2023 | newvoices.org | Julia Hegele

The Golem is an entity that many view as defensive, created in a response to centuries of violence as a being that removes the culpability of reciprocal violence from human hands. A watchdog, a know-nothing, a pawn. I, however, have always viewed the matter and make-up of the Golem as a personified accumulation of suffering.

Jun 15, 2023 | newvoices.org | Julia Hegele

In 2022, New Voices Magazine conducted an investigation that broke open a conversation on how Jewish summer camps are damaging LGBTQ+ youth. A year later, we return to this urgent topic as the camp season begins. New Voices sat down with Sandra Fox, the author of The Jews of Summer for a conversation about gender, sexuality, cultural production, and how camp history can inform the present and future.