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Report
Ethiopian-Israelis Protest Police Violence in a Divided Israel
The police killing of an unarmed black teenager has brought racial tensions to the surface. But solidarity is in short supply.
Arianna Skibell July 12, 2019
Report
Making “Never Again” More Than a Slogan
How Jewish and immigrant rights activists organized against Trump’s border camps.
Arielle Gordon July 11, 2019
Essay
What Could Have Been
On Father of the Bride, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig speaks to the crisis of Jewish identity in the shadow of Zionism’s broken promises.
Sophia Steinert-Evoy July 9, 2019
Essay
Here Anyone Can Live Free
The Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale raises uncomfortable questions about who should make social practice art.
Samuel Holleran July 8, 2019
Review
One of Us
A new documentary portrays outgoing Knesset member Dov Khenin as a lone, heroic figure in a hopeless political landscape.
Mairav Zonszein July 5, 2019
Report
Red Line Rebellion
Hillel International has long controlled the campus conversation on Israel. A new network of independent Jewish student groups presents an inclusive alternative.
Jess Schwalb July 3, 2019
Report
IfNotNow’s Primary Strategy
The anti-occupation group is holding the 2020 contenders accountable on Israel/Palestine.
Alex Kane July 3, 2019
Essay
Lessons From Across the Pond
What British Jews can learn from the American Jewish left.
Emily Hilton July 2, 2019
Review
The Illustrated Kafka
Peter Kuper’s latest collection mines Kafka’s scenes of anxiety, authoritarianism, and the anomie of modern life.
Nicholas Jahr June 28, 2019
Report
Trump’s Orthodox Whisperer
How Jeff Ballabon steered a community’s turn to the nationalist right.
Joshua Leifer June 27, 2019
Conversation
The Price of Living Together
Houria Bouteldja lays out the choice facing the Jewish community: provisional privilege or solidarity.
Isabel Frey June 26, 2019
Review
Murder Ballads
In Szilárd Borbély’s theological poetry, death is the one true God.
Daniel Kraft June 24, 2019
Essay
Policing the Borders of Suffering
When it comes to concentration camps and other carceral spaces, the debate over vocabulary lays bare the inconsistencies in our fights for justice.
Zoé Samudzi June 21, 2019
Analysis
Whose Concentration Camps?
AOC is drawing the correct lessons from Holocaust history, unlike mainstream Jewish institutions.
Noah Kulwin June 19, 2019
Review
A Divorce Story, from “Both Sides”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel reflects the irrelevance of Jewishness to the most pressing concerns in many American Jews’ lives.
Josh Lambert June 19, 2019
Essay
If You Prick Watto, Does He Not Bleed?
Twenty years after The Phantom Menace, an antisemitic caricature reconsidered.
Aaron Freedman June 14, 2019
Review
Atrocity in the Off Hours
What can we learn from photographs of cross-dressing Nazi soldiers?
Jordan Teicher June 13, 2019
Conversation
Apartheid Is Israel’s “Desired Reality”
An interview with Haaretz journalist Amira Hass about occupation, the diaspora, and what comes next.
Mari Cohen June 12, 2019
Report
Anti-Choice Activists Have Invented an “Abortion Holocaust”
New legislation codifies an insidious comparison.
Jennifer Gerson June 10, 2019
Analysis
The Congressional Black-Jewish Caucus Is a Sham
Linking arms with allies of white supremacists to fight white supremacy won’t work.
Noah Kulwin June 6, 2019
Dispatch
UChicago Wildcat Strike Empties Classrooms
The grad student union’s three-day work stoppage was a demonstration of power.
Chloe Watlington and Lee Harris June 6, 2019
Memoir
An Infinite Deal
Blocking the Damascus Gate on Jerusalem Day.
Ari Shahn June 5, 2019
History
New York’s First-Time Women Voters
A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.
Miriam Karpilove June 4, 2019
Poetry
CHAPTER XXII
In an erasure poem from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a trans poet confronts the book’s disdain for femininity.
Chase Berggrun May 31, 2019
