All Articles
Review
A Compendium of Severance
Susan Taubes’s Divorcing traces the separation of a wife from her husband, a family from their homeland, and a people from their God.
Jess Bergman October 27, 2020
Analysis
Israel’s Repressive Diplomacy
The recent normalization agreements with Arab states rely on—and contribute to—growing authoritarianism.
Peter Beinart October 26, 2020
Roundtable
When You Can’t Stay Home
Roundtable
On Homes for All
In the short term, we need to cancel rent and mortgages. In the longer term, we need to decommodify housing.
Ilhan Omar October 23, 2020
Roundtable
On Avoiding the New Foreclosure Crisis
Avoiding another foreclosure crisis means pressuring lawmakers to put the brakes on speculative behavior.
Oksana Mironova October 23, 2020
Roundtable
On Preventing Pandemic Displacement
We must improve the housing that helps illness spread—without displacing the people who live there.
Samuel Stein October 23, 2020
Roundtable
On Redistributing Vacant Housing
It’s never been more urgent to turn our cities’ vacant living spaces into housing for the homeless.
Jenny Akchin and Lynn Lewis October 23, 2020
Conversation
Calling a Nazi a Nazi
Journalist Talia Lavin discusses the imperative—and the dangers—of covering the far right.
Nina Zweig October 21, 2020
Conversation
Are We Post-Sepharadim?
A conversation with scholar Devin E. Naar about what meaningful Sephardic representation might look like in the wake of near-total erasure.
Arielle Angel October 20, 2020
Translation
Residents of all of the neighborhoods: Unite!
The full translation of the Manifesto of the First Congress of the Federation of the Residents of all the Popular Neighborhoods of Salonica, 1924.
Residents of the Popular Neighborhoods of Salonica October 19, 2020
Report
Can the Reform Movement Stand Up to the Settler Right?
The movement’s leadership role in Israel’s Jewish National Fund puts it in charge of evicting a Palestinian family, whether it wants to or not.
Mari Cohen October 19, 2020
Poetry
From “When the World Stopped Touching: Mothers’ Letters Through Pandemic”
“Help, / still something / we refuse we need.”
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan October 16, 2020
Report
The New Heimish Populism
The protests in Borough Park reflect a shift in Orthodox communities, long in the making, toward a Trumpian style of politics.
Joshua Leifer October 15, 2020
Review
Blueprint for Feminism
Feminist City helps us dream up alternative futures, even if it doesn’t do the dreaming itself.
Kristen Ghodsee October 14, 2020
Poetry
For Louise Glück
A triptych honoring Louise Glück’s Nobel win
Gabrielle Bates October 12, 2020
Responsa
Justice You Shall Pursue
The religious tenor of public mourning for RBG reveals a conflation of Jewishness with American liberalism, which forecloses the possibility of reckoning with either.
The Editors October 9, 2020
Conversation
Degrees of Separation
Playwright David Adjmi discusses his estrangement from the Syrian Jewish community, his ambivalence about identity politics, and his new memoir Lot Six.
Alisa Solomon October 8, 2020
Analysis
It’s Time to Re-Radicalize the Abortion Movement
As the prospect of a solidly conservative Supreme Court threatens Roe v. Wade, we must return the abortion movement to its neglected radical roots.
Jenny Brown October 7, 2020
Report
Welcome to Lammville
How the Hasidic housing crisis led to the largest case of federal voter fraud in modern American history
Britta Lokting and Sam Adler-Bell October 5, 2020
Poetry
Music Practice
“What could a tongue remember after loss and hunger?”
Valzhyna Mort October 2, 2020
Report
Searching for a Strategy
As Arab states normalize relations with Israel, Palestinians are struggling to build consensus around a new way forward.
Mairav Zonszein September 30, 2020
Translation
Rent Strike
A dramatization of the Lower East Side rent strikes of 1908.
Morris Rosenfeld September 29, 2020
Responsa
The Struggle Begins at Home
Reimagining housing as the ground shifts under our feet
The Editors September 29, 2020
Analysis
The Myth of Rabin the Peacemaker
The Oslo Accords were not derailed by his death; they achieved exactly what Rabin wanted.
Amjad Iraqi September 27, 2020
