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Poetry
Let The Father Give
A poet reflects on the terror and tenderness of her son’s first bath in light of family separations at the border.
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach June 19, 2018
Report
The Dual Conspiracies of the J20 Prosecution
There’s the conspiracy with which protesters have been charged, and the conspiracy that brought the charges.
Sam Adler-Bell June 15, 2018
Poetry
Poems: Black Hat & Proposal
My hat bobs gaily on her head, / incarnating her as a Hasidic woman / on the extreme edge / of gender confusion.
Robert Hirschfield June 14, 2018
Review
What Went Wrong With Identity Politics?
In a new book, Asad Haider makes the case for coalition-building and a return to universalist radical movements.
Kaila Philo June 13, 2018
Memoir
Transitions in Jewish Time: A Trans Writer Visits the Mikveh
“Going to the mikveh meant giving my body, as it was, a place to be loved and called to holiness.”
Jayce Koester June 12, 2018
Dispatch
San Francisco’s Burgeoning Socialist Movement Scores an Election Day Victory
Twin victories at the polls are a coming-out party for San Francisco socialists. Will more—and more radical—victories follow?
Chris Roberts June 11, 2018
Review
War in the Language of Hope
Writing in Esperanto, Spomenka Štimec offers a harrowing account of war in luscious detail.
Shoshana Olidort June 11, 2018
Report
The Jewish Group Near the Heart of the Canadian Far Right
How the Jewish Defence League found common cause with raging antisemites.
Evan Balgord June 5, 2018
Letters
An Open Letter to NFTY and the Reform Jewish Movement
57 current and former Reform Jewish youth movement leaders take a stand against the Israeli occupation.
IfNotNow June 4, 2018
Review
The American Jewish Army that Never Was
A new work chronicles the attempts by Zionist leaders to raise an American Jewish army to fight Hitler.
Dusty Sklar June 4, 2018
Review
There Will Be Blood: Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum
“His paintings reflect the route from Louvre to butcher shop to studio, a private map of an emigre who belonged to no national movement and who created his own style.”
Dan Grossman May 29, 2018
Poetry
Shehecheyanu at the Old Dolphinarium
New poetry from Julia Knobloch.
Julia Knobloch May 29, 2018
Dispatch
Keep Looking Until You Find It
A surprising encounter with the Book of Ruth at a participatory art ritual in New York.
Maia Ipp May 24, 2018
Essay
Roth Versus The Rabbis
“It was presumptuous of you, Rabbi Rackman, to speak of yourself to me as ‘a leader of his people.’ You are not my leader and I can only thank God for it.”
Josh Lambert May 23, 2018
Review
Indonesia’s Unmourned Communists
A new work addresses the long-neglected mass politicide of communists in Indonesia.
Mitchell Abidor May 23, 2018
Review
Our Hilarious Overlords
What’s so funny about backstabbing, brutality and mass murder? Quite a lot.
Logan Bayroff May 23, 2018
Fiction
Hitchhikers
An excerpt from the novel SADNESS IS A WHITE BIRD by Moriel Rothman-Zecher.
Moriel Rothman-Zecher May 22, 2018
Critique
Intersectionality Is Not a Reason for Jews to Leave Our Movements
The issue with intersectional discourse for many Jews, especially those with economic and skin color privilege, is that it requires us to take a tough look at how some Jews at home and abroad have become oppressors, or enablers of oppression.
Sarah M. Seltzer May 22, 2018
Memoir
“Three More Pieces”
“I don’t recall that those colorful brochures from Israel, sent to Russian Jews like my family, mentioned the Palestinians.”
Sasha Senderovich May 17, 2018
Essay
The Jerusalem Embassy Ceremony Was Liberal Zionism’s Funeral
America and Israel’s Monday celebration made it clear what supporting Israel looks like in practice.
Joshua Leifer May 17, 2018
Essay
Gaza and the Question of Culpability
Hamas did not force Palestinians to march to the fence. Gaza’s desperate situation did.
Noah Kulwin May 16, 2018
Dispatch
IfNotNow Activists Take to the Streets Protesting the ‘Embassy of Occupation’
Young American Jews protested on Washington streets on Monday, as dozens of Palestinian demonstrators were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Noah Kulwin May 14, 2018
Comic
The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Eli Valley laments Trump’s embassy move.
Eli Valley May 14, 2018
Dear Emma Scoldman
Dilemma in Delhi
Advice columnist Emma Scoldman answers letters from a traveler who doesn’t want to harden his heart, and more.
Emma Scoldman May 10, 2018
