Editorial
Toward a Candid Confrontation
January 14, 2019
On the Women’s March, antisemitism, and accountability.
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Essay
Ocasio-Cortez’s Jewish Heritage Isn’t About You
January 18, 2019
AOC’s announcement of Jewish heritage needs to be read in the context of Sephardic and Latin American history.
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Conversation
The Lost World of Yiddish Anarchists
January 15, 2019
It's more than just Yom Kippur Balls.
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Review
Mission Not Quite Accomplished
January 7, 2019
“Vice” is a flawed but valuable corrective to liberal Bush era amnesia.
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One Year of
Jewish Currents
Review
Is 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' in on the Joke?
December 7, 2018
For all the affection Mrs. Maisel showers on Jewish comedy, it doesn't seem to understand its function.
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Essay
What Ocasio-Cortez’s Jewish Heritage Means
January 8, 2019
Claiming Jewish heritage is fundamentally different than claiming Jewishness. But it still matters.
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Comic
The President Responds to Rashida Tlaib
January 8, 2019
Is it really Rep. Tlaib’s language that's a “disgrace”?
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Poetry
Lot’s Wife Speaks
January 2, 2019
Laura Eve Engel’s debut poetry collection, THINGS THAT GO, uses the biblical story to contemplate the act of looking and its ethics in an age of clickable tragedy.
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