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Michael Shulan, the museum’s former creative director, on the 20-year legacy of the attacks and his unrealized vision.

For religious Zionist settlers in the South Hebron Hills, attacks on Palestinians have become a Shabbat afternoon pastime.

“This pebble here is a monument to someone. / So is a cloud a stub a poppy a dog—”

An abortion fund worker in Texas on how their efforts will shift now that the state has effectively banned abortion after six weeks

Hannah Wilke, whose vaginal sculptures from the 1960s and ’70s are undergoing a revival, eschewed political stagecraft for feminist indeterminacy.

An interview with British socialist historian David Renton on lessons from Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as Labour leader.

A conversation with scholar Mejgan Massoumi on how Afghans have experienced the war between the United States and the Taliban.

Climate journalist Kate Aronoff on how to process the UN climate report.

Jewish Currents staff discuss the relationship between political feelings and therapy.

Reporter Daniel Marans on Nina Turner’s loss, the role of Jewish organizing and the Israel lobby, and what it all means for the left.

Adam Serwer discusses his collection of writings on the Trump era.

“Do you hear our onceness / beating at the door? How the past / outlasts on either end”

Three writers and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, including Plunder author Menachem Kaiser, discuss the conventions of the “3G memoir” and the commodification of Holocaust stories.

Jewish Currents staff discuss the sparsely attended “No Fear” rally, the surprising results of the Jewish Electorate Institute poll of American Jewish voters, and the announcement that Ben & Jerry’s will stop selling ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories.

NSO Group, the Israeli firm that sells its spyware to authoritarian regimes around the world, emerged from a military unit that perfected its surveillance techniques on Palestinians.

Lara Friedman on the wider stakes for free speech.

Under pressure from constituents, progressive domestic Jewish groups may break their silence on the occupation.

Anti-Palestinianism is as ubiquitous as it is invisible.

Last year, a number of American Jewish novels tackled the fraught subject of Jewishness and wealth.

Jewish Currents staff and their non-Jewish partners discuss the meaning of Jewishness in their homes and relationships.

“Being young with a broken heart, it’s not the same as being old with a broken heart.”

A co-founder of the queer, anarchist café Pink Peacock discusses recent run-ins with law enforcement and Jewish leftism in the UK.

“I saw a knife covered with dirt and blood. I picked it up. I held the cherub by its wings.”

Rachel Breen’s textile work connects the garment industry to the suffering that sustains it.