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Conversation
Reading for Silence
Idra Novey talks about US intervention through a female gaze, reading silence in literature, and the strange prescience of her new novel, Those Who Knew.
Lauren Goldenberg November 5, 2018
Dispatch
White Nationalism on the Ballot in Brooklyn
Jews protest state senator Marty Golden for unrenounced ties to white nationalists.
Sam Adler-Bell November 5, 2018
Essay
The Long Jewish Relationship with Thomas Jefferson
What explains the long history of Jewish admiration for this particular founding father?
Bennett Muraskin November 3, 2018
Essay
Sunday School After Squirrel Hill: Resources and Reflection
Teachers share thoughts and resources on how to talk to students about antisemitism and intersectional justice in the wake of the Squirrel Hill shooting.
Kayla Ginsburg and Abby Harris-Ridker October 30, 2018
Conversation
The Road to Trans Liberation
Chicago poet H. Melt discusses their new chapbook.
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank and H. Melt October 30, 2018
Essay
After Squirrel Hill
A New York City vigil imagines a path forward.
Noah Kulwin October 29, 2018
Review
What Happened to the Black-Jewish Political Alliance?
Challenging the sanitized history of blacks and Jews during the Civil Rights era.
Rachel Cohen October 25, 2018
Review
The Revolution in Vitebsk
A review in comic form of the Jewish Museum’s exhibit “Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922.”
Julia Alekseyeva October 24, 2018
Essay
Universities Must Reckon With Their Role in the Occupation
A University of Michigan instructor explains why she declined to recommend a student for a study abroad program in Israel.
Lucy Peterson October 23, 2018
Review
Skin in the Game
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman puts stress on the dual threats of white supremacy: antisemitism and racism.
Zack Graham October 19, 2018
Conversation
Sacred Ruins
Performance artist Sacha Yanow speaks with filmmaker Sasha Wortzel about queer and Jewish inheritances in Yanow’s new performance “Cherie Dre,” conceived in the ruins of the Borscht Belt.
Sacha Yanow and Sasha Wortzel October 18, 2018
Excerpt
Never Again?
An occupier at Columbia University in 1968 reflects on the dreams and shortcomings of radical politics.
Michael Steinlauf October 17, 2018
Essay
The Soros Myth
Antisemitism has long been a tool of the right wing to undermine democracy.
Dove Kent October 11, 2018
Art
Charting Power
The artist uses maps from Israel/Palestine and drains them of their political utility.
Amir Guberstein October 9, 2018
Essay
Morality, Fate, Faith, Freedom: Reasons to Revisit Bernard Malamud
“Can a writer write for all men from a position of minority? Malamud’s work convinces me.”
Nellie Hermann October 8, 2018
Review
A Palestinian Filmmaker Asks: What Do Fathers and Sons Owe Each Other?
In Annemarie Jacir’s Wajib, a family considers what it means to build a life.
Naomi Dann October 5, 2018
Report
The American Jewish Establishment’s Sinister Turn
A new report links influential Jewish institutions to a McCarthyite blacklist of pro-Palestinian activists.
Noah Kulwin October 3, 2018
Essay
The DOJ Fired Me For Protesting Family Separation. I Don’t Regret It.
Speaking truth to power is necessary to force political change.
Allison Hrabar October 2, 2018
Holidays
The Local Lulav
In creating our diasporic lulavs, we asked ourselves what a radical, ethical practice of Sukkot looks like in our various homes.
Rakia Sky Brown, Gabi Kirk, Noah Rubin-Blose, and Miriam Saperstein September 28, 2018
Review
By What Law
Israel triumphed in acquiring a large stash of Kafka’s manuscripts. But does Israel—or anyone—really get to to claim Kafka as their own?
Nathan Goldman September 25, 2018
Dispatch
A Bid to Be Seen
On the Palestine Museum US, which opened this spring.
Michael McCanne September 24, 2018
Review
What Marx Got Wrong
A new biography of the philosopher misses the shortcomings of the Marxist tradition.
Mitchell Abidor September 20, 2018
Holidays
Sholem Aleichem’s Revolutionary Chickens, and a Yom Kippur Tradition
The surprising origins of Yom Kippur’s kappores and tashlikh rituals.
Jonah S. Boyarin September 17, 2018
Dispatch
Dobranotch Delights in New York
The St. Petersburg-based klezmer ensemble brings the party to Little Odessa and the East Village.
Samantha Shokin September 17, 2018
