Sara Weissman is the editor in chief of New Voices Magazine.
Sara Weissman
By Sara Weissman
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Community Is Ideological Purity Too Much To Ask Of Intersectional Feminists?
A version of this article originally appeared in New Voices. A green text bubble flashed across my phone. “You should write about the Farrakhan, Women’s March, anti-Semitism, intersectionality thing.” I turned my screen dark. I’d been avoiding this. I know. I’m a Jewish feminist writer. I drink my morning coffee out of an Emma Goldman…
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Community Did Jews For Jesus Get Something Right About Jewish Millennials?
A version of this article originally appeared in New Voices. I know, I didn’t think I’d be writing that headline today either. But a Jews for Jesus study may have actually made an interesting insight about Jewish millennials. What am I talking about? Jews for Jesus recently commissioned a study surveying 599 Jews born from…
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Community Framing Modesty As A Protection For Women Is Incredibly Toxic
This article originally appeared in New Voices. Dear Mayim, Let’s talk — Orthodox feminist to Orthodox feminist. You represent me. You might not mean to but you do. With the exception of Ivanka Trump (oy), you’re probably the most visible Orthodox woman in America today. So, when you imply in the New York Times that…
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Community Don’t Call This A Warzone
A version of this article originally appeared in New Voices. “Where do you go to school?” “UC Berkeley.” “UC Berkeley? Wow, the front line. You students are fighting an important battle over there. Keep it up!” I can’t tell you how many times I had this conversation -– at shuls, Shabbat tables, even half a…
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Community Are You an #AppallingYoungJew?
A version of this article originally appeared in New Voices. This week, social media users witnessed a beautiful onslaught of snark and defiance from the Jewish millennial corner of the Twitterverse. Young Jews took to Twitter appalled by a swiftly deleted tweet – with a quote loosely attributed to Israeli MK Michael Oren suggesting their…
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Community What The Media Gets Wrong About Life For Jewish Students
A version of this article originally appeared on New Voices. Everyone has their morning rituals. I roll over, sleepily grab my phone, and look at my Google Alerts for “Jewish students,” which supplies me with all the day’s news featuring campus Jews. As the editor of New Voices and a nerdy recent grad, this is…
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Community Are Jews White Right Now?
This piece originally appeared in New Voices. After the election, my friend’s younger brother called from Israel. “Are we white?” he asked. Her immediate response was, “Not anymore.” As I listened to my friend talk about this exchange, I wasn’t sure which part was more telling, the question or the answer. The question – how…
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Opinion How Orthodox Jews Can Fight Islamophobia — by Taking a Lesson from Sikhs
Running my habitual ten minutes late (hey, it’s Standard Jewish Time), I tried to slip quietly into a packed Islamophobia seminar on the UC Berkeley campus. I shuffled my way to a seat, attracting a couple of glances — followed by double takes from a few classmates who knew me. I understood the quizzical looks….
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