Jewish Currents

Report

Britain’s Labour Antisemitism Controversy, Revisited

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

Shane Burley August 27, 2021

Report

“No One Wants to Listen to the Afghan People”

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

Marya Hannun August 20, 2021

Report

“There’s Plenty of Suffering that Can Be Prevented”

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

David Klion August 13, 2021

Report

Lessons From Defeat

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.

David Klion August 6, 2021

Poetry

Wound is the Origin of Wonder

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

Maya C. Popa July 30, 2021

Report

When Cruelty Builds Community

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

David Klion July 30, 2021

Conversation

Selling the Holocaust

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.

Arielle Angel, Maia Ipp, and Menachem Kaiser July 28, 2021

Analysis

Exporting the Tools of Apartheid

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.

Yousef Munayyer July 26, 2021

Report

Ben & Jerry’s Tests Anti-BDS Laws

Lara Friedman on the wider stakes for free speech.

Mari Cohen July 23, 2021

Report

Avodah Considers Stepping Out on Israel/Palestine

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

Mari Cohen July 22, 2021

Analysis

It’s Time to Name Anti-Palestinian Bigotry

Anti-Palestinianism is as ubiquitous as it is invisible.

Peter Beinart July 16, 2021

The State of the Genre

Jews with Money

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

Josh Lambert July 15, 2021

Fiction

Sick Day

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

Dea Hadar July 12, 2021

Poetry

Birth Certificate

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

Sinan Antoon July 9, 2021

Report

The Yiddish Tote Rankling Glasgow Police

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

Arielle Angel July 9, 2021

Art

Material Conditions

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

Sheila Regan July 6, 2021

Dispatch

Roasting in a Western Washington Prison

Climate change is intensifying the suffering of incarcerated people.

Christopher Blackwell July 2, 2021

Report

The Christian Zionist Group Shaping Holocaust Education in Florida

The state’s new learning standards reflect the influence of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, a right-wing organization that believes Christians have a “Biblical responsibility” to support Israel.

Corey Sherman July 1, 2021

Conversation

What We Talk About When We Talk About “Intermarriage”

The Jewish Currents editorial staff takes on “Jewish continuity.”

Jewish Currents June 30, 2021

Review

The Guilty Conscience of Jewish Empire

In The Wondering Jew, the influential Israeli philosopher Micah Goodman—who has argued for “shrinking” the occupation—contends that liberal Judaism requires maximalist Zionism.

Daniel May June 28, 2021