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Dispatch
We Will Protect Each Other
Efforts to scare anti-ICE protesters with extrajudicial violence won’t work.
Eve Condon August 16, 2019
Analysis
This Is the Important Part
Leveraging US military aid to Israel is the only serious path to peace.
Noah Kulwin August 15, 2019
Responsa
Dual Disloyalty
Who do Jewish institutions actually serve?
Jacob Plitman August 13, 2019
Review
Who Needs Social Realism?
As the popularity of social realist cinema wanes, Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers offer possible visions for the genre’s future.
Andrew Lapin August 12, 2019
Obituary
Kaddish for David Berman
His albums took up the grand project of Jewishness, to which he came honestly: wrestling with God, playing the stranger.
Arielle Angel and Nathan Goldman August 9, 2019
Fiction
Happiness, As Such
An excerpt from a 1973 novel by Natalia Ginzburg, newly translated by Minna Zallman Proctor.
Natalia Ginzburg August 8, 2019
Essay
The Right Kind of Continuity
Jeffrey Epstein and the sexual politics of Jewish philanthropy.
Ari M. Brostoff and Noah Kulwin August 7, 2019
Comic
Bayla’s Disease
Bayla worries she’ll die before becoming a famous artist.
Hinda Avery August 5, 2019
Review
Searching for Black Thought in White Antifascism
Natasha Lennard’s otherwise incisive new essay collection fails to adequately address what nonwhiteness might offer antifascist thought.
Zoé Samudzi August 1, 2019
Conversation
The Future of the Forward
New Forward editor Jodi Rudoren discusses what’s next for the 122-year-old institution.
Rachel Cohen July 31, 2019
Report
Gods, Guns, and Country
Trade in weapons and ultra-nationalist ideas is driving an expanding India–Israel alliance.
Carol Schaeffer July 30, 2019
Review
A Diaspora of One
A new biography of Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm downplays his Jewishness and attempts to soften his radicalism.
Gabriel Winant July 29, 2019
Profile
Fear Is Not a Good Principle
A Minnesota school desegregation advocate reflects on a life spent fighting.
Rachel Cohen July 25, 2019
Dispatch
Flirting With Fascism
The National Conservatism Conference in Washington had a very 1930s vibe.
David Austin Walsh July 24, 2019
Review
An Answering Art
What would an English translation of the Hebrew Bible look like if we could take off the Christ-colored glasses?
Justin Taylor July 24, 2019
Report
Challenging Pelosi From the Left
Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and activist, is offering San Franciscans a progressive alternative.
Natascha Elena Uhlmann July 23, 2019
Essay
Picturing Power
Moving protest from performance to disruption.
Arielle Angel July 22, 2019
Analysis
Democrats Fail the Left, Once Again
Trump’s racist attacks on Ilhan Omar have been enabled by her own party.
Noah Kulwin July 19, 2019
Review
Watching the Watchers
A new retrospective documents Julia Scher’s decades-long project of turning surveillance around.
Joe Bucciero July 18, 2019
Report
What Being Jewish Means to Bernie
In the 2016 race, Sanders said little about his Jewishness. Now, in his 2020 campaign, he’s speaking up.
David Klion July 17, 2019
Review
Law of the Land
In a new book, legal scholar Noura Erakat argues that the Palestinian liberation struggle must think beyond statehood.
Amanda McCaffrey July 16, 2019
Essay
The Jewish Case for Open Borders
How center-left immigration proposals lead to far-right policy.
Greg Afinogenov July 15, 2019
Review
Endangered Democracies
A new documentary asks: Has Brazil’s democracy been merely a passing dream?
Mitchell Abidor July 15, 2019
Photo Essay
Fighting Fire with Fire
A photo essay documents the last few weeks of unrest following the police killing of an unarmed Ethiopian-Israeli teenager.
Oren Ziv July 12, 2019
