Jewish Currents

Conversation

Listening to Wampanoag Law

jessie little doe baird of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe discusses what’s at stake this week in the federal ruling regarding the tribe’s land and sovereignty.

Ray Levy-Uyeda May 5, 2020

Analysis

An Argument Among Friends

The muted Haredi response to Bill de Blasio’s comments reflects a longstanding relationship.

Joshua Leifer May 1, 2020

Provisions

Provisions #3: “Pain was everywhere. Sprang out of everything”

Meditations in a crisis on poems by Else Lasker-Schüler, beyza ozer, and Gregg Bordowitz.

Wayne Koestenbaum, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Lara Mimosa Montes May 1, 2020

Analysis

A New Cold War Threatens Chinese Americans

The previous cold wars exacted a terrible toll on American Jews. The new cold war will do the same for Chinese Americans.

Peter Beinart April 30, 2020

Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition

Exodus: Vaera

For Freud, “chosenness” was a psychopathological fantasy in need of explanation.

Len Gutkin April 30, 2020

Analysis

Let the Right Have the Conference of Presidents

Liberal groups have an opportunity to reassess their membership in a body designed to rubber-stamp right-wing policy.

Noah Kulwin April 29, 2020

Report

Amazon Workers Say Warehouse Health Precautions Are Insufficient

A recent survey of hundreds of Amazon warehouse employees gives new insight into the conditions that are prompting worker revolt.

Alex Press April 28, 2020

Comic

Portrait of the Artist in Quarantine: Staying Clean

Same outfit, different day.

Kayla Ginsburg April 27, 2020

Poetry

Middle Life Money

“I cannot outstare the bill faces”

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram April 24, 2020

Conversation

The Yiddishist Neocon

Nancy Sinkoff discusses her new biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, a Holocaust historian whose role in the neoconservative movement is often forgotten.

Hadas Binyamini April 23, 2020

Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition

Exodus: Shemot

What if, through this crack in the text, older gods return?

Dan Sinykin April 22, 2020

Fiction

An Excerpt from Rejwach

“What it is about you, you Jews, that whatever anyone says about you, it’s never a neutral subject?”

Mikołaj Grynberg April 21, 2020

Conversation

A Conversation with Mikołaj Grynberg

“I think the figure of the Jew is always used in times of crisis.”

Sean Gasper Bye April 21, 2020

Obituary

Remembrances: Michael Sorkin, Helène Aylon, Maurice Berger

Reflections on lives lost to Covid-19.

Samuel Stein, Clare Kinberg, and Ariel Goldberg April 21, 2020

Report

Nurses Everywhere Are Organizing

With or without a union, nurses in harm’s way are turning to collective action to demand better protections.

Mari Cohen April 20, 2020

Provisions

Provisions #2: “The world begins at a kitchen table.”

Meditations in a crisis on poems by Donika Kelly, Joy Harjo, and Nâzim Hikmet.

Cameron Awkward-Rich, Ariana Katz, and Claire Schwartz April 17, 2020

Analysis

Orbán’s Illiberalism Tests the EU

After a dramatic power grab by the Hungarian prime minister, will the European Union finally stand up against the nation’s slide into autocracy?

Joshua Leifer April 16, 2020

Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition

Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition

Exodus: An Introduction

The Bible is long and the length of our self-isolation uncertain, so we decided to read the Book of Exodus.

Ari M. Brostoff, Sarah Chihaya, and Dan Sinykin April 15, 2020

Fiction

The Prophet of Mt. Mitchell

“It’s not what they called maggid, a voice. It’s not even a yearning. It’s a sense of loss, and of wanting what’s ahead or behind but not where we are.”

Daniel Torday April 13, 2020