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Call of Duty
An app called Act.IL has adapted IDF communications strategy into a massive multiplayer online game.
Daniel Lark August 10, 2020
Poetry
Anniversary
“I keep quiet // but the wind still stumbles through the psalm // we wrote together.”
Carina del Valle Schorske August 7, 2020
Analysis
Cori Bush’s Message From the Grassroots
Bush’s victory in a St. Louis congressional primary escalates an insurgency from the Democratic Party’s left wing.
Joshua Leifer August 5, 2020
Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition
Exodus: Tetzaveh
What are sacred objects for?
Pratima Gopalakrishnan August 4, 2020
Office Hours
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
“If we want to heal the world, we have to be aware of our own grief.”
Sarah Barasch August 3, 2020
Conversation
An Act of Pure Presence
Justin Taylor discusses his new memoir, writing about his father, and depression as a failure of narrative.
Joshua Cohen July 31, 2020
Report
The Settlers’ Man in Florida
The Republican Party in the era of Trump has become the party of the Israeli settler right, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis its most devoted champion.
Alex Kane July 30, 2020
Review
Revolution in the First Person Plural
In Social Poetics, Mark Nowak reclaims the poetry workshop as a space to imagine social transformation.
Philip Metres July 29, 2020
Conversation
Till Bibi Goes Home
An activist in Israel’s anti-Netanyahu protests discusses the movement to unseat the prime minister.
Mairav Zonszein July 28, 2020
Report
The First Draft of Biden’s Israel Policy
Pro-Israel advocacy groups and progressive operatives are each claiming policy victories in the battle over the Democratic Party platform.
David Klion July 27, 2020
Poetry
Invasive Species
“Little song years remastering truth / now begins its own truth”
Carl Phillips July 24, 2020
Analysis
The Real War on Free Speech
Some of the Harper’s letter signatories use their defense of “free speech” to silence support for Palestinian rights.
Mari Cohen and Joshua Leifer July 23, 2020
Art
A Journey Into the Heart of Whiteness
For more than 50 years, Rosalind Fox Solomon has sought to understand whiteness from its margins.
Zoé Samudzi July 22, 2020
Essay
In the Dark
Covid-19 has illustrated the stakes of a lack of access to information in prisons.
Stephen Wilson and Michael Ness July 21, 2020
Provisions
Provisions #8: “If I could just leave the old things to their trembling”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Canisia Lubrin, Wisława Szymborska, and Kenyan Freedom Fighters.
Christina Sharpe, Angel Nafis, and Ken Chen July 20, 2020
Report
Jewish Agency Threatens Habonim Dror Over Anti-Annexation Petition
The Israel-based organization has demanded that the Labor Zionist youth movement purge members advocating a boycott of Israel programs.
Mari Cohen July 17, 2020
Report
Israel/Palestine Looms Large Over Minnesota Primary
Pro-Israel groups are spending big to help Antone Melton-Meaux unseat Ilhan Omar. But the Congresswoman appears poised for re-election.
Rachel Cohen July 17, 2020
Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition
Exodus: Terumah
Does the Tabernacle represent God’s effort to institutionalize the energy of a riot?
Carina del Valle Schorske July 16, 2020
Review
Unorthodox Bodies
Through its unusually nuanced look at vaginal pain, the acclaimed Netflix series is a show about a Hasidic woman radicalized by disability.
Mari Cohen and Hannah Srajer July 14, 2020
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor: Yavne
Readers respond to Peter Beinart’s call for an equal, binational state in Israel-Palestine.
Jewish Currents July 13, 2020
Memoir
The Bookworm
When Yiddish books are destroyed, who will miss them?
Isaac Brosilow July 13, 2020
Conversation
Q & A with Peter Beinart
Our editor-at-large discusses the background of his essay on the end of the two-state solution, and responds to its critics.
David Klion July 10, 2020
Poetry
Dybbuk
“They say a dislocated dead soul pumps out curses / like a t-shirt cannon.”
Ruth Madievsky July 10, 2020
Analysis
The Resilient Fiction of the Two-State Solution
The lack of a viable two-state solution doesn’t mean liberal Zionists will stop believing in one.
Joshua Leifer July 9, 2020
