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Report
Major News Networks Sideline Palestinian Analysts
Leading Palestinian commentators describe canceled appearances and segments pulled from CBS and CNN shows.
Mari Cohen October 18, 2023
Dispatch
Dispatches from Gaza
Three Palestinians describe life under constant Israeli bombardment—and lay out their visions for liberation.
Mohammed Zraiy, Khalil Abu Yahia, and Rania Hussein October 17, 2023
Analysis
A Textbook Case of Genocide
Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?
Raz Segal October 13, 2023
Letter From the Editor
“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”
The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment.
Arielle Angel October 12, 2023
Report
The Hamas Attacks and Israeli Response: An Explainer
A rolling explainer answering readers’ questions about the current situation in Israel/Palestine.
Alex Kane, Mari Cohen, Jonathan Shamir, and Isaac Scher October 10, 2023
Conversation
Recognizing the Roma Holocaust
In his recent book Rain of Ash, historian Ari Joskowicz examines the evolving relationships between Jews and Roma in the struggle for justice.
Daniel Kraft October 5, 2023
Memoir
Gluttony
In an excerpt from her new essay collection Naked, a burlesque performer considers the complications of desire.
Fancy Feast October 5, 2023
Newsletter
A Visa Program Exception for Israel
The US has admitted Israel into the Visa Waiver Program even though the country continues to discriminate against Palestinian American travelers.
Alex Kane October 3, 2023
Conversation
Archives of Israeli Oppression
Akevot Institute founder Lior Yavne on how unearthing government records can illuminate ongoing injustices.
Mitchell Abidor September 29, 2023
Folio
Hélène Cixous
The feminist theorist’s expansive oeuvre turns exclusion into a site of possibility.
Office Hours
Kathy Ottersten
“You take the risk to save lives. Maybe that’s how you love people.”
Hannah Gold September 28, 2023
Fiction
Excerpt from Manhattan
“Who cared about the rest of the world? I had reading for all time.”
Hélène Cixous September 28, 2023
Feature
After the Hit-and-Run
Can restorative justice offer crash victims like me—and the drivers who harmed us—the healing we need?
Mari Cohen September 28, 2023
Conversation
Reading Baldwin After Kanye
A conversation about James Baldwin’s 1967 essay, “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They are Anti-White.”
nyle fort, Marc Lamont Hill, Daniel May, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and Ben Ratskoff September 28, 2023
Art
Porzellan Manufaktur Allach
Robert Russell’s recent exhibition exposes idyllic trinkets as sites of Nazi domination and imagination.
Rotem Rozental September 28, 2023
Essay
Light Among The Nations
For Yoram Hazony, the founder of the National Conservative movement, Israel is an illiberal model for the international nationalist brigade.
Suzanne Schneider September 28, 2023
Comic
Jenin
Eli Valley September 28, 2023
Conversation
A Strangeness Inside Your Self
Hélène Cixous discusses writing as a woman, the meaning of Jewishness, and the impossibility of understanding.
Claire Schwartz September 28, 2023
Review
Staging Resistance
On Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost
Nora Caplan-Bricker September 28, 2023
Essay
Meditations on Cixous
Four writers reflect on the feminist theorist’s work.
Jo Mrelli, aracelis girmay, Sarah Hamerschlag, and Jules Gill-Peterson September 28, 2023
Review
Two Paths for Diasporism
On Daniel Boyarin’s The No-State Solution.
Julie E. Cooper September 28, 2023
Music
Dream I Tell You
“It writes itself unanalyzed / The dream commands my hand”
DAYS September 28, 2023
Analysis
Revaluing the Strike
Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.
Erik Baker September 27, 2023
Poetry
By Such Honorifics, You Attempt to Summon the Old Country You Have Never Seen
“Chosen affliction / Spilt milk / Pool of amnesia / Extreme sport / Terminal psychodrama”
Momtaza Mehri September 22, 2023
