All Articles
Review
Savior Story
The Red Sea Diving Resort treats Ethiopian Jews as hapless victims, rather than political agents.
Hannah Borenstein November 14, 2019
Analysis
Netanyahu’s Last Stand
The embattled prime minister hopes a strike on Gaza will help him form a unity government.
Edo Konrad November 13, 2019
Conversation
Best-Case Scenario
Jewish Currents interviews the authors of A Planet to Win
about the radical potential of the Green New Deal.
Jewish Currents November 12, 2019
Opinion
How to Fight Antisemitism
The forces fomenting antisemitism are the forces arrayed against oppressed people around the world, including Palestinians.
Bernie Sanders November 11, 2019
Responsa
Meditations in an Emergency
On climate change, the Holocaust, and messianic time
Ari M. Brostoff November 7, 2019
Dispatch
How Far Is J Street Willing to Go?
Its annual conference has become a space for left-wing criticism of Israel, but the organization remains cautious.
Arianna Skibell November 6, 2019
Photo Essay
Ruins of the Israeli Bund
A photo essay documents the remnants of the shuttered home of the Arbeter Ring in Tel Aviv.
William Pimlott and Ethan Schwartz November 5, 2019
Report
How Jewish Organizations Are Responding to the Kurdish Crisis
Jews and Kurds share histories of exile and persecution, but the US and Israel’s geopolitical interests complicate solidarity.
Daniel Boguslaw November 4, 2019
Conversation
“Our Solidarity Will Defeat White Nationalism”
Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc, describes getting arrested protesting Trump in Pittsburgh a year after the massacre.
David Klion October 30, 2019
Conversation
Fighting for Rojava
A Jewish American anarchist who fought alongside the Kurds against ISIS reflects on his experiences and the current state of the region.
Michael McCanne October 29, 2019
Dispatch
Don’t Call It an Anniversary
One year after the Tree of Life attack, the Jewish community of Pittsburgh is still trying to make sense of what happened.
C.A. Pinkham October 28, 2019
Poetry
Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018
“The laws of the bomb and the laws of the armistice are the same”
Daniel Borzutzky October 25, 2019
Essay
Washing the Dead in Pittsburgh
Our burial practices offer more than a way of dealing with the dead; they are antifascism in action.
Jordana Rosenfeld October 24, 2019
Review
Self-Hater
In Nadav Lapid’s new film, Synonyms, a young Israeli attempts to outrun his own Israeliness.
Mitchell Abidor October 23, 2019
Review
Cancer and Its Metaphors
Anne Boyer’s The Undying seeks a new form for the cancer memoir.
Nancy K. Miller October 22, 2019
Report
From the Ashes of the Old
Can DSA transform the labor movement?
Alex Press October 21, 2019
Poetry
The Goat
“This bleating was the twin / of my own sorrow. And I answered”
Umberto Saba October 18, 2019
Conversation
Naming the Dead
Novelist Maaza Mengiste discusses the erasure of women’s war stories, photography as a weapon of subjugation, and her new book, The Shadow King.
Lauren Goldenberg October 17, 2019
Review
Facing Reality
In The Lions’ Den, Susie Linfield studies eight Jewish leftists’ views on Israel but fails to confront her own liberal Zionist preconceptions.
Shaul Magid October 15, 2019
Report
What Really Happened at Bard College?
A Forward editor alleges she was protested for being Jewish. Witnesses tell a different story.
Mairav Zonszein October 14, 2019
Review
The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Reich
A new book by historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld traces the persistent idea of a resurgent Nazi regime.
Noah Berlatsky October 10, 2019
Conversation
The Exorcist
Collaborators Aaron Henne and Erith Jaffe-Berg discuss theatre dybbuk’s new performance about a Jewish descent into Hell.
Leora Blum October 8, 2019
Essay
Just Playing Along
What an antisemitic, Nazi-era board game has to teach us about the nature of complicity.
Eric Thurm October 7, 2019
Essay
An Antisemitic Judge, a White Supremacist System
A Jewish death row inmate in Texas confronts the same forces that kill and incarcerate Black and Brown people daily.
Rebecca Pierce and Isaac Brosilow October 4, 2019
