New Voices

New Voices stands out as the sole national magazine in the U.S. that is created for and by Jewish college students. Since its inception in 1991, this independent, non-profit publication, managed by the Jewish Student Press Service, reaches over 20,000 students both in the United States and around the world. The magazine is crafted by a recent college graduate based in New York City, along with numerous student writers from various campuses nationwide, all operating on a limited yearly budget.

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"The Encampments" - Resilience and Free Speech on Campus

1 month ago | newvoices.org | Daniel J. Kushner

Photo by Judy GoldsteinOn March 8th 2025, Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident of the U.S., was detained by ICE. He had committed no crime, only exercising his free speech as one of the primary organizers of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. The day before his detention, President Trump cut $400 million in funding to Columbia due to its failure to “combat antisemitism on campus,” pressuring Columbia to eventually capitulate to his demands.
The ‘Feh’ is Coming From Inside the House

Jan 31, 2025 | newvoices.org | Lauren Hakimi

A few years ago, author Shalom Auslander took a weight loss drug so poisonous that later, when he was hospitalized, doctors suspected he had tried to kill himself. Auslander claimed that he hadn’t, but the question remained, what made him hate himself enough to take such a dangerous substance? The answer is the title of Auslander’s latest memoir, Feh, which came out last July from Penguin Random House.
A Year in Retrospect: 'The Gospel According To Chaim' Makes Yiddish Theater History

Dec 23, 2024 | newvoices.org | Sam Shepherd

The Nights Before ChristmasIt was two hours before the Off-Broadway opening of The Gospel According to Chaim, and there was sheiml on the bread: that’s Yiddish for mold. Melissa Weisz, one of three actors in the performance, needed the two slices of rye as part of a prop sandwich for a scene during the play’s second act. But even tucked in paper wrappings and stored in the fridge of the theater lobby, she noticed that time and neglect had turned the slices a bluish-green hue.
New Beginnings: Unfolding

Dec 18, 2024 | newvoices.org | Rina Shamilov

This piece is featured in our New Beginnings series, exploring the emergent ideas, emotions, and social upheavals of a new era of progressive Jewish culture. We are writing for a brighter future, while honoring our past. More to come. Going to graduate school was supposed to be exciting and liberating, but the Indiana-bound-New York train ride with my mother was filled with crying.
Bloom | New Voices

Jun 3, 2024 | newvoices.org | Rina Shamilov

Photography by Yoav Rahamim You could hear the neighbor’s violin strumming from the end of the road. He was always playing at this hour, just as the sun was setting, The quietest part of the day. The usual chatter of Modiin was long dead. People were crawling back into their crevices. I stood on the living room balcony watching the sunset. It had been a few weeks since we got here, and the suitcases stood in unceremonious heaps on the deck. The sky was beautiful. Haunting. The air was cold.
"Science is not enough:" How Jewish Texts Keep Climate Activists Afloat

Apr 21, 2024 | newvoices.org | Seth Pollak

With 2023 being the hottest year ever recorded, our climate reality is beginning to feel fatal. And yet, despite ongoing international efforts, the necessary action for lasting change constantly falls short. In a show of international pressure to pursue climate action, the voices of the strongest environmental organizations around the world are gaining popularity.
Defying Orthodoxies on Israel/Palestine: A YU Student's Journey

Apr 17, 2024 | newvoices.org | Rina Shamilov

High noon in Washington was cold, and I was sitting on the yellow grass, shivering while speaking with my friends. I could barely hear them over the boom of the speakers in Washington’s National Mall. Various students and speakers spoke passionately about the Israeli cause, “Bring Them Home Now” chants filling the air. As a Yeshiva University student, it may have looked like I fit in seamlessly at the march. But inside, I was deeply questioning my place within the conflict.
Diet Culture Has Permeated the Holiest Spaces of Judaism

Mar 21, 2024 | newvoices.org | Gila Axelrod

At 10 years old, I decided it was time for me to start fasting on Yom Kippur. While most people don’t start fasting until age 13, I had a craving for spirituality and wanted to do whatever I could to get closer to God. Based on what I’d heard from adults, fasting seemed to be the most extreme, most valuable way that I could connect to God and Judaism. For a few years, I felt the intended effects.
On Covering One's Eyes

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.
Hebrew School Dropout: One Quarter Capitalist (On My Mom's Side)

Jan 17, 2024 | newvoices.org | Andrew Leonard

At the start of the 2012 Hebrew school term, a seismic shift shook my world. It happened during the break between first and second period. I walked from class to the designated eating area, drool moistening my braces, ready to receive my ration of two pretzel rods. But when I arrived, the old snack cart that elicited this Pavlovian response was missing. Instead, the Sisterhood had rolled a new cart into the corner of the room with neatly organized bags of snacks, donning a sign that read, “$2”.