Translating Black Lives Matter into Yiddish
Amid an eruption of protests over police brutality, a Black performer of Yiddish music reflects on an attempt to “touch Blackness from inside Yiddish.”
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Living the Unlivable
Jasbir K. Puar on the Great March of Return and the perils of exceptionalizing the Gaza blockade.
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Jews of Color and the Policing of White Space
The infamous 911 call in Central Park has hard lessons for Jewish communal spaces.
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Police State Procedural
The new season of Fauda takes the denigration of Palestinians to new depths.
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Accounting for Jews of Color
Critics say a new article challenging the number of Jews of color undermines the slow progress Jews of color have made in securing communal funding for inclusivity efforts.
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All Epidemics Are Social
The historical memory of those who lived through and organized during the AIDS crisis offers an invaluable resource in the struggle for a just response to the coronavirus emergency.
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Provisions #5: “tarnished, / problematic, and certainly uneven—a we”
Meditations in a crisis on writing by René Ménil, Ari Banias, and Andrea Rexilius.
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Honoring the Dead From a Distance
A socially distant taharah is an oxymoron that underscores the particular agony of this moment.
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[unfinished draft]
“when fucking, I frequently mistake cries of pleasure for cries of faith”
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Who Speaks in the Jewish Novel?
In 2019, American Jewish fiction took a renewed interest in the question of who gets to write about whom.
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A Stranger in Silicon Valley
Anna Wiener’s memoir of her time in San Francisco tech subtly skewers the industry, but its elegantly disaffected style has its limits.
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