All Articles
Review
A Nation Like All Others: Gershom Scholem and the Paradox of Zionism
How one people’s “independence” became another’s catastrophe.
Samuel Earle May 9, 2018
Dispatch
Israel Convicts A Palestinian Poet, NYC Writers Gather In Solidarity
Palestinian poet and photographer Dareen Tatour faces the possibility of years in prison.
Jake Offenhartz May 7, 2018
Review
Revolutionary Love, Revolutionary Heartbreak
Houria Bouteldja’s Whites, Jews, and Us is a useful re-contextualization of antisemitism, but fails as an act of revolutionary love.
Naomi Dann April 26, 2018
Comic
Attack of the Clones
Eli Valley illustrates the fracas over Natalie Portman’s decision to avoid the Genesis Prize ceremony.
Eli Valley April 26, 2018
Dispatch
With a Nod to ’68, Columbia Grad Students Strike
Fifty years after the student occupation, Columbia’s graduate union goes to the picket line in its fight for recognition.
Alex Press April 25, 2018
Europe
Poland’s New Holocaust Law Is Bad, But Not the Worst
The law is an overreaction to some common mischaracterizations of Poland’s role in the Holocaust, but it’s far from the worst example of legal revisionism in Europe.
Dovid Katz April 25, 2018
Review
The Kremlin Ball
Ex-fascist diplomat Curzio Malaparte’s masterpiece blends the real, the improbable, and the impossible in Soviet Russia.
Mitchell Abidor April 24, 2018
Report
Birthright Israel and #MeToo
Jewish Currents spoke with more than 50 Birthright Israel participants and staffers about their experiences with the often-fraught sexual and gender dynamics on the famous free trip to Israel. Here is what we found.
Sarah M. Seltzer April 18, 2018
Review
Revolutionary Bandits
A new history of the revolutionary criminals who rejected any possibility of revolution coming from the degraded masses—and turned their revolt into an individualistic one.
Mitchell Abidor April 17, 2018
Memoir
(Re)Writing Remembrance
Two grandchildren of Holocaust survivors exchange letters on making art and meaning from the Holocaust.
Maia Ipp and Arielle Angel April 17, 2018
Jewdayo Grid
Uncategorized
MGM
Lawrence Bush April 16, 2018
Fiction
Of All Places
Desire, boxing, prayer, and the Holocaust remembered. Bold fiction set in contemporary Berlin by Maia Ipp.
Maia Ipp April 16, 2018
Essay
Culturally Muslim
Growing up Pakistani-American, the first time I recognized myself in the world of a novel was when I read Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.
Shuja Haider April 16, 2018
Responsa
On an Emerging Diasporism
The simultaneous crises of the Trump presidency in America and the ongoing rightward radicalization of Israel are fueling a Diasporic revival. Where might it take us?
Jacob Plitman April 16, 2018
Dispatch
A Guerilla Workshop on Pinkwashing
In the organized LGBTQ community, Jews and Muslims demand discussion of Israel/Palestine.
Emily Strauss April 16, 2018
