About

Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture on the Jewish left and the left more broadly.

As an award-winning magazine of politics, culture, and ideas, we publish quarterly in print and daily online. We have received acclaim for our in-depth reporting, trenchant analysis, and rigorous cultural criticism, and for our attention to literary quality and style.

Issues we cover include antisemitism and its weaponization, the inner workings of Jewish communal organizations, the politics of Israel/Palestine on the ground and internationally, race and racialization, strategies and horizons of American left movements, the global rise of the far right, diasporic cultural expression, labor, climate, incarceration, immigration, and feminism. Since relaunching in 2018 with a new staff and design, we have established ourselves as an essential voice in the contemporary conversation.

Publisher
Daniel May
Deputy Publisher
Naomi Gordon-Loebl
Managing Director
Cynthia Friedman
Managing Editor
Allison Brown
News Director
Josh Nathan-Kazis
Senior Editors, Culture
Nathan Goldman
Claire Schwartz
Senior Editors, Politics
Mari Cohen
A. Gopalan
Senior Reporter
Alex Kane
Editors-at-Large
Arielle Angel
Peter Beinart
Assistant Editor
Maya Rosen
Program Coordinator
Noa Azulai
Operations Coordinator
Sean Pergola
Contributing Editors
Ari M. Brostoff
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Maia Ipp
David Klion
Ben Ratskoff
Contributing Writers
Mitchell Abidor
Jess Bergman
Christopher Blackwell
Solomon Brager
Elisheva Goldberg
Linda Kinstler
Raphael Magarik
Rebecca Pierce
Helen Betya Rubinstein
Zoé Samudzi
Isaac Scher
Jonathan Shamir
Alisa Solomon
Eli Valley
Board of Directors
Kathleen Peratis, Co-Chair
Mark Egerman, Co-Chair
Carrie Shapiro, Treasurer
Zoë Friedman-Cohen, Secretary
Dana El Kurd
M. Gessen
Naseem Haffar
Benjamin Korman
Sarah Anne Minkin
Jacob Plitman
Nadia Saah
Marshall Steinbaum
Tali Stolzenberg-Myers
Advisory Board
Kate Aronoff
Judith Butler
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Anne Germanacos
Susannah Heschel
Joy Ladin
Devin E. Naar
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Dahlia Scheindlin
Omar Shakir
Simone Zimmerman
JC Council
Alice Radosh, Chair
Anthony Arnove
Mia Bagneris
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Helen Engelhardt
Dick Flacks
Esther Leysorek Goodman
Stephanie Greenwood
Judee Rosenbaum
Shaiya Rothberg
Mitchell Silver
Editor Emeritus
Lawrence Bush
Founding Editors
Louis Harap, (1904-1998)
Morris U. Schappes, (1907-2004)