All Articles
Essay
On a Man’s Greatness
One of Israel’s most esteemed poets celebrates her teacher, scholar Paul Ernst Kahle, for his quiet heroism in Nazi Germany.
Lea Goldberg April 7, 2020
Provisions
Provisions
Provisions
Provisions #1: “languages I didn’t know I wanted to know”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Solmaz Sharif, Mary Karr, and June Jordan.
Momtaza Mehri, Chase Berggrun, and Essy Stone April 3, 2020
Comic
Portrait of the Artist in Quarantine Without a Dishwasher
So. Many. Dishes.
Kayla Ginsburg April 3, 2020
Dispatch
Lessons From Strike University
Coronavirus disruptions have only intensified the resolve of striking UC Santa Cruz grad students fighting for a pay increase.
Delilah Friedler April 2, 2020
Report
Rent Is Due
As tenants face impossible choices, debates emerge over how to organize.
Brendan O’Connor March 31, 2020
Analysis
“The Beginning of Breakdown”
Benny Gantz’s capitulation to Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition has left Israel’s constitutional order more vulnerable to right-wing efforts to undermine it.
Joshua Leifer March 31, 2020
Conversation
A Vote for the Fire
Malcolm Harris, the author of the new essay collection Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit, reflects on a long, dystopian decade.
Joshua Simon March 27, 2020
Poetry
Watching the Twilight
“Painstakingly, the Earth spins, and as it does, / I look out into the world inside an incubator”
Choi Seung-ja March 27, 2020
Conversation
Rest, Build, and Fight
The Jewish Currents editorial staff discusses how its relationship to work and political struggle is shifting in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Editors March 25, 2020
Report
“We Are Sitting Ducks”
As the Covid-19 crisis escalates, incarcerated people across the country describe a climate of fear, uncertainty, and unpreparedness.
Mari Cohen March 23, 2020
Conversation
From Bad to Worse
Ghada Majadle of Physicians for Human Rights fears that Israel’s restrictive policies could exacerbate the effects of a coronavirus outbreak in the West Bank and Gaza.
Alex Kane March 20, 2020
Conversation
The Militarization of Quarantine
Eyal Weizman, director of the interdisciplinary research agency Forensic Architecture, discusses state responses to the Covid-19 crisis and how the “state of exception” might become the norm.
Rosa Schwartzburg March 20, 2020
Responsa
No One Is Well
To respond to the coronavirus crisis, we must fight to replace the logics of capitalism with the logics of care.
Arielle Angel March 18, 2020
Poetry
Before Apocalypse
“what parts of us weren’t inherited from a light / of understandable distance”
George Abraham March 13, 2020
Report
The Making of an Echo Chamber
Benjamin Netanyahu faces criminal charges for the obsessive efforts to reshape Israeli media that have defined his career.
Elisheva Goldberg March 11, 2020
Report
Urgency and Compromise: Progressives Run for the World Zionist Congress
The liberal Zionist Hatikvah slate hopes to win big. But for some critics, participation in the “parliament of the Jewish people” is an unconscionable moral sacrifice.
Josephine Riesman March 9, 2020
Analysis
“The Only Left That Is Left”
After its gains in the latest elections, the Joint List has a chance to become Israel’s true opposition: one rooted in Arab–Jewish partnership.
Joshua Leifer March 5, 2020
Review
Yikhes
The vexing uses of the metaphorical Jew in Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance.
Alisa Solomon March 3, 2020
Conversation
The Polish Government’s War on Jewish History
Dariusz Stola, former head of Poland’s Jewish museum, discusses the far-right national politics that ousted him from his position.
Emma Saltzberg March 2, 2020
Comic
Mayor Mike Vs. the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses
“If we can find a bunch of billionaires around the world to move here, that would be a godsend.”
Joey Perr March 2, 2020
Poetry
Sisterhood
“Sister, when we found the hare, / a wounded emigrant in our yard, / it was already dying—it wasn’t our fault”
Aria Aber February 28, 2020
Analysis
No Time to Waste
The annexation of the West Bank appears imminent. Is the American Jewish peace camp ready to respond?
Mairav Zonszein February 27, 2020
Analysis
The Scarlet B
Bernie Sanders’s use of the word “bigotry” to describe AIPAC is a gamechanger.
Peter Beinart February 26, 2020
