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Conversation
Please Go To My Country and Say Salaam
An interview with Gazan painter Malak Mattar.
Emily C. Bell July 24, 2018
Critique
Walking Off a Birthright Trip Isn’t “Stealing”
Walking off the famous free trip to Israel to protest the occupation makes sense—unless you revere Birthright’s political agenda or its monied backers.
Benjy Cannon July 20, 2018
Dispatch
How to Fight the Netanyahu Government (and Win)
To stop deportations of asylum seekers, we needed to build a coalition across racial and economic lines.
Alon-Lee Green July 19, 2018
Report
Israel’s Nation-State Bill and the European Ethnonationalist Wave
Codifying Jewish supremacy further aligns Israel with nativist governments in Hungary, Austria, and elsewhere.
Noah Kulwin July 19, 2018
Conversation
The Best Argument for Socialism
An interview with Keith Gessen about his new novel, A Terrible Country.
Lauren Goldenberg July 18, 2018
Dispatch
Why We’re Launching “The Jewish Vote”
Inspired by our radical past, Jewish activists in NYC announce a new progressive electoral initiative.
Katie Unger July 17, 2018
Essay
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, 1945 – 2018
Remembering one of American Jewry’s most inspiring activists and writers.
Esther Kaplan, Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark, Donna Nevel, and Alisa Solomon July 17, 2018
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Applications Open for the Avodah Justice Fellowship
“Applications are now open for the_Avodah_Justice Fellowship, a selective eight-month program in New York City, Chicago, and Kansas City.”
Avodah July 16, 2018
Poetry
The Miami Beach Series, 1982
Poems by historian Paul Buhle, drawn from interviews with the “Jewish Old Left” in Miami Beach.
Paul Buhle July 16, 2018
Review
Sacha Baron Cohen and the Right’s Imaginary Israeli
The British comedian returns to form with his new show, Who is America?
Noah Kulwin July 16, 2018
Review
Your Curiosity Will Not Be Satisfied
Ambiguity and discomfort in Batsheva Dance Company’s “Naharin’s Virus.”
Maia Ipp July 12, 2018
Dispatch
Jews Rally in Solidarity with Local 217 at the Stamford Hilton
“There is only one boss, and that is God above.”
Avigayil Halpern July 10, 2018
Comic
Dersh Dejected
Artist Eli Valley addresses the saddest boy in Martha’s Vineyard.
Eli Valley July 9, 2018
Conversation
Forgotten Histories: Women of the First Intifada
An interview with Julia Bacha, director of Naila and the Uprising.
Aviva Stahl July 6, 2018
Review
Pope Francis at the Day of Judgment
A new film by Wim Wenders captures the moral splendor of Pope Francis while ignoring the politics.
Andrew Lapin July 6, 2018
Dispatch
Daniel Kahn’s Yiddish Militancy
A concert-goer inspired by Daniel Kahn’s fiercely political Yiddish music asks: how does this tradition inform how we act, here and now?
Jonah S. Boyarin July 5, 2018
Report
The Left is Demanding “Abolish ICE.” But Jewish Groups Are Less Sure.
Left-leaning pillars of the American Jewish community are split on the newest progressive rallying cry.
Alex Kane July 5, 2018
Essay
Good Riddance to Anthony Kennedy—Now #PackTheCourts
A bad judge and a worse writer leaves American democracy with a political organizing crisis.
Ian Samuel June 30, 2018
Review
‘Fauda’ and the Act of Israeli Ventriloquism
The new season of the hit Israeli show Fauda continues in its portrayal of brutish Israelis and cowardly Palestinians.
Mitchell Abidor June 27, 2018
Comic
Kapo, Kapow
Artist Eli Valley wrestles with our history, the Trump administration”s crimes, and the word “kapo.”
Eli Valley June 27, 2018
Review
Not Another Holocaust Book
Sheila Heti’s Motherhood addresses a family’s post-Holocaust grief—without addressing the Shoah outright.
Helen Betya Rubinstein June 26, 2018
Dispatch
Families Occupy ICE Offices in NYC
Dozens of families occupied the Manhattan offices of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday afternoon.
Scott Heins June 23, 2018
Dispatch
The Hometown Resistance to Kirstjen Nielsen’s Border Atrocities
Over 300 students and alumni of Kirstjen Nielsen’s high school alma mater have signed an open letter condemning the DHS chief.
Marc Daalder June 20, 2018
Letters
How One of America’s Great Rabbis Handled Christian Antisemitism
A recently unearthed 1944 correspondence between Joachim Prinz and a Texas army chaplain.
Clifford Kulwin June 20, 2018
