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Review
Speech Acts
Despite its attunement to the political potential of language, Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School remains trapped in reductive narratives about the Trump era.
Dilara O’Neil October 1, 2019
Report
Hillel vs. Academic Freedom
Jewish organizations are siding with the Trump administration in its war on Middle East studies.
Mari Cohen September 27, 2019
Office Hours
Avram Finkelstein
“Ethics are irrelevant if they’re coming for you.”
Dan Fishback September 26, 2019
Dispatch
Tradition Compels Us to Respond
Religious communities are confronting the threat of climate change with activism.
Arianna Skibell September 25, 2019
Review
Bari Weiss’s Unasked Questions
In How to Fight Anti-Semitism, a facile approach to history justifies an impoverished ethical stance.
Judith Butler September 23, 2019
Analysis
Bibiism After Bibi
Israel’s longest-serving prime minister may be out, but his legacy will outlast him.
Etan Nechin September 20, 2019
Poetry
Separation Wall
“We would like the babies not to find out about / the failures waiting for them.”
Naomi Shihab Nye September 19, 2019
Essay
Italy’s Green Fascists
La Foresta Che Avanza is using environmentalism to make its fascist ideology more palatable to the mainstream.
Erica X Eisen September 18, 2019
Report
Poll: Democratic Voters Support Cutting Aid to Israel
A new report from Data for Progress shows that there’s room for the primary candidates to move left.
Emma Saltzberg September 16, 2019
Fiction
Am I a Jew or a Pole?
“Quietly, he whispered in my ear, ‘Assimilation has gone bankrupt.’ ”
Hersh Dovid Nomberg September 13, 2019
Conversation
Standing Up to Likud’s Voter Suppression
Raluca Ganea discusses the role of grassroots activism in Israel’s flailing democracy.
Libby Lenkinski September 12, 2019
Report
The Making of Andy Ngo
The right-wing provocateur’s grift exposing “the tyranny of the left” worked—until it didn’t.
Hannah Gais September 11, 2019
Report
The Ecological War on Gaza
Israel’s use of herbicides on the border with Gaza has killed crops on the Palestinian side.
Rob Goyanes September 9, 2019
Conversation
Hope Wrapped in Barbed Wire
Israeli author Etgar Keret discusses translation, mixing pathos with humor, and his new book of short stories, Fly Already.
Bradley Babendir September 5, 2019
Art
Shirley Wegner’s Unsettled Landscapes
In Wegner’s photographs, we are looking not at historic events but at collective memories.
Michael McCanne September 4, 2019
Review
No Heroes
Mr. Klein stands out among Holocaust films for refusing easy paths of pure villainy and simple redemption.
Mitchell Abidor September 3, 2019
Poetry
There Is Hope
“Men engineered a line over water to connect / two futures.”
Natalie Eilbert August 30, 2019
Review
Yiddish Fiddler’s Unseen Triumphs
Fidler afn Dakh opens new possibilities for reading the iconic play, but it’s not clear who’s noticing.
Jonah S. Boyarin August 29, 2019
Review
Remaking the Canon in Our Image
This emerging canon of American Jewish poets imagines Jewishness anew in its true complexity and multiplicity.
Lynn Melnick August 28, 2019
Essay
Where Did the Past Go?
Revisiting an iconic pamphlet about antisemitism and the left.
Ben Lorber August 26, 2019
Analysis
Trump’s “Disloyalty” Comments Are What the Jewish Right Believes
The idea that Jews must be loyal to Israel doesn’t originate with the president.
David Klion August 22, 2019
Conversation
There’s No Such Thing as “Free Speech”
Writer P.E. Moskowitz discusses how the left can take back the “technology” of free speech.
Sophia Steinert-Evoy August 21, 2019
Essay
On Being a Fetish
Is identity-based kink ever kosher?
Fancy Feast August 20, 2019
Conversation
Know Your “Enemy”
Ethiopian Israeli organizer Avi Yalou discusses the usefulness of the occupation to maintaining oppressive systems within Israel.
Libby Lenkinski August 19, 2019
