The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Reich
A new book by historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld traces the persistent idea of a resurgent Nazi regime.
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The Exorcist
Collaborators Aaron Henne and Erith Jaffe-Berg discuss theatre dybbuk’s new performance about a Jewish descent into Hell.
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Just Playing Along
What an antisemitic, Nazi-era board game has to teach us about the nature of complicity.
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An Antisemitic Judge, a White Supremacist System
A Jewish death row inmate in Texas confronts the same forces that kill and incarcerate Black and Brown people daily.
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Jewish Currents
Fatherhood, Insomnia, Imperial Tears
“To love a baby // is to restrain the urge to bury it / inside a wall”
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Becoming Yigal Amir
Director Yaron Zilberman and actor Yehuda Nahari Halevi discuss their new film, Incitement, which reckons with the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Speech Acts
Despite its attunement to the political potential of language, Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School remains trapped in reductive narratives about the Trump era.
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Hillel vs. Academic Freedom
Jewish organizations are siding with the Trump administration in its war on Middle East studies.
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Bari Weiss’s Unasked Questions
In How to Fight Anti-Semitism, a facile approach to history justifies an impoverished ethical stance.
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Italy’s Green Fascists
La Foresta Che Avanza is using environmentalism to make its fascist ideology more palatable to the mainstream.
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Bibiism After Bibi
Israel’s longest-serving prime minister may be out, but his legacy will outlast him
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