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Poetry
Taxi Poems
Four poems from the manuscript Today in the Taxi.
Sean Singer February 21, 2019
Essay
Bad Faith
The dogpile on Ihan Omar reinforces the double-standard for women of color.
Nylah Burton February 14, 2019
Conversation
Finding Jewish Community in Tattoos
An interview with Toronto-based tattoo artist Joey Nicholson.
Isaac Brosilow February 13, 2019
Comic
A Moral Outrage
On telling friend from foe.
Eli Valley February 12, 2019
Essay
Where’s the Lie?
Calling out the Israel lobby is not ipso facto antisemitism.
Noah Kulwin February 11, 2019
Essay
American Uses and Misuses of the Holocaust
Wielding Holocaust memory to make America look good is an American tradition.
Mari Cohen February 8, 2019
Essay
On Accompaniment
The migrant caravan brings solidarity practices with them on their journey north.
Rachel Ida Buff February 7, 2019
Essay
Only a Green New Deal Can Save Us
The crisis of climate change is too important to leave in the hands of billionaires.
Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Alyssa Battistoni, and Thea Riofrancos February 5, 2019
Report
The Schism is Here
The bipartisan gloss on Israel is finally cracking.
Noah Kulwin January 31, 2019
Dear Emma Scoldman
Hummus Thief
A letter-writer asks whether it’s cultural appropriation to take a job at an Israeli hummus joint, and more.
Emma Scoldman January 29, 2019
Dispatch
The NYC Women’s March Careens Into a Debate About Zionism
The Women’s March Alliance and Zioness co-hosted an event last Thursday.
Toby Irving January 22, 2019
Conversation
Making History, Blintzes, and Trouble
Longtime leftist activists Dick and Mickey Flacks reflect on their lives, their work, and their new memoir.
Jacob Plitman January 21, 2019
Conversation
Who’s Trying to Kill BDS on Campus?
An interview with Forward reporter Josh Nathan-Kazis.
Rachel Cohen January 21, 2019
Essay
Ocasio-Cortez’s Jewish Heritage Isn’t About You
AOC’s announcement of Jewish heritage needs to be read in the context of Sephardic and Latin American history.
Max Greenberg and Max Modiano Daniel January 18, 2019
Poetry
Chain Migration
A poetic meditation on migratory inheritances.
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller January 17, 2019
Conversation
The Lost World of Yiddish Anarchists
It’s more than just Yom Kippur Balls.
Claire Ehrlich January 15, 2019
Responsa
Toward a Candid Confrontation
On the Women’s March, antisemitism, and accountability.
Jewish Currents Editorial Board January 14, 2019
Essay
What Ocasio-Cortez’s Jewish Heritage Means
Claiming Jewish heritage is fundamentally different than claiming Jewishness. But it still matters.
Shaul Magid January 8, 2019
Comic
The President Responds to Rashida Tlaib
Is it really Rep. Tlaib’s language that’s a “disgrace”?
Eli Valley January 8, 2019
Review
Mission Not Quite Accomplished
“Vice” is a flawed but valuable corrective to liberal Bush era amnesia.
Brendan James January 7, 2019
Poetry
Lot’s Wife Speaks
Laura Eve Engel’s debut poetry collection, Things That Go, uses the biblical story to contemplate the act of looking and its ethics in an age of clickable tragedy.
Jessica Kirzane January 2, 2019
Essay
Jack Kirby’s Golem
Ben Grimm’s Jewishness has been hiding in plain sight for decades.
Ben Schwartz December 26, 2018
Review
The Past Is Not Past
The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude interrogates his country’s antisemitic history and its echoes in the present.
Mitchell Abidor December 25, 2018
Review
What to Do When a Nazi Runs for President
A recent documentary revisits the 1986 election of a former Nazi to the Austrian presidency and the activists who sought to shut him down.
Deborah Krieger December 24, 2018
