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Essay
Against Analogy
To build solidarity in this moment, white Jews should resist the impulse to highlight similarities between histories of antisemitism and anti-Blackness.
Ben Ratskoff June 9, 2020
Report
Waging Lawfare
Trump’s executive order on antisemitism caps a decades-long
fight to make Palestine solidarity activism all but illegal.
Natasha Roth-Rowland June 8, 2020
Dispatch
Taking Care
In the Twin Cities over the past week, protesters refused the state’s mythic monopoly on care, and thus its thin alibi for its violence.
Nathan Goldman and Claire Schwartz June 5, 2020
Essay
Translating Black Lives Matter into Yiddish
Amid an eruption of protests over police brutality, a Black performer of Yiddish music reflects on an attempt to “touch Blackness from inside Yiddish.”
Anthony Russell June 5, 2020
Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition
Exodus: Yitro
What does it mean that we do not consent to our ethical obligations?
Jacob Plitman June 4, 2020
Review
Police State Procedural
The new season of Fauda takes the denigration of Palestinians to new depths.
Mitchell Abidor June 2, 2020
Conversation
Living the Unlivable
Jasbir K. Puar on the Great March of Return and the perils of exceptionalizing the Gaza blockade.
Samuel Holleran June 1, 2020
Analysis
Jews of Color and the Policing of White Space
The infamous 911 call in Central Park has hard lessons for Jewish communal spaces.
Rebecca Pierce May 29, 2020
Provisions
Provisions #5: “tarnished, / problematic, and certainly uneven—a we”
Meditations in a crisis on writing by René Ménil, Ari Banias, and Andrea Rexilius.
Saretta Morgan, Samuel Ace, and Carolina Ebeid May 29, 2020
Conversation
All Epidemics Are Social
The historical memory of those who lived through and organized during the AIDS crisis offers an invaluable resource in the struggle for a just response to the coronavirus emergency.
Ari M. Brostoff May 28, 2020
Memoir
Honoring the Dead From a Distance
A socially distant taharah is an oxymoron that underscores the particular agony of this moment.
Jordana Rosenfeld May 27, 2020
Report
Accounting for Jews of Color
Critics say a new article challenging the number of Jews of color undermines the slow progress Jews of color have made in securing communal funding for inclusivity efforts.
Mairav Zonszein May 26, 2020
The State of the Genre
Who Speaks in the Jewish Novel?
In 2019, American Jewish fiction took a renewed interest in the question of who gets to write about whom.
Josh Lambert May 25, 2020
Poetry
[unfinished draft]
“when fucking, I frequently mistake cries of pleasure for cries of faith”
Rachel Mennies May 22, 2020
Report
No Bark, No Bite
Senate Democrats’ watered-down letter on annexation is an object lesson in how Biden’s candidacy is already letting Israel off the hook.
Peter Beinart May 21, 2020
Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition
Exodus: Beshalach
For the enslaved, the formerly enslaved, and the otherwise surveilled, wandering is not simply unproductive movement; it is self-possessed, erratic, wayward action.
Omari Weekes May 20, 2020
Review
A Stranger in Silicon Valley
Anna Wiener’s memoir of her time in San Francisco tech subtly skewers the industry, but its elegantly disaffected style has its limits.
Jess Bergman May 19, 2020
Provisions
Provisions #4: “here in a foreign place, my thoughts of you sharpen”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Wang Wei, Enheduanna, and Ross Gay.
Wendy Xu, Kaveh Akbar, and Ashon T. Crawley May 15, 2020
Comic
Portrait of the Artist in Quarantine: Day 14, Post-Grocery Run
What can you make with matzah meal and some old potatoes?
Kayla Ginsburg May 15, 2020
Conversation
Q & A with Gabi Kirk
An interview with the author of our recent feature on California’s ethnic studies curriculum.
David Klion May 14, 2020
Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition
Exodus: Bo
How do you read a plague?
Briallen Hopper May 13, 2020
Fiction
In a Crowded Place
“Strangers warmed each other, breathing down each other’s necks and in each other’s faces.”
Jonah Rosenfeld May 12, 2020
Feature
The Capitalist’s Kibbutz
WeWork sold Wall Street a fantasy of Israeli communal living with an entrepreneurial twist—until it collapsed.
Sam Adler-Bell May 11, 2020
Poetry
Far Rockaway
“The war was not over / in my grandmother’s mind.”
Judith Harris May 8, 2020
