Jewish Currents

Essay

The Soul of the Worker

A mid-century Chabad writer protests the “shidduch” between socialism and secularism.

Eli Rubin April 11, 2022

Conversation

Waiting on the French Left to Decolonize Itself

Houria Bouteldja and Françoise Vergès on the French Presidential Elections.

Claire Schwartz April 8, 2022

Illuminations

The Beloved Defiles the Hands

virgil b/g taylor’s Minor Publics, on display at Artists Space through April 23rd, 2022

Solomon Brager April 8, 2022

Conversation

The Limitations of the Scream

Filmmaker Nadav Lapid discusses the difficulty—and dangers—of attempting to cast off his Israeli identity.

Corey Atad April 6, 2022

Newsletter

“The Right of Return is Landback”

In a new report, the Indigenous group NDN Collective links Palestinian and Native American struggles against settler colonialism.

Isaac Scher April 5, 2022

Fiction

Baruch Hashem

I’m white trash. Jew trash. Immigrant trash. Girl-boy trash. I’m a Casanova without a cause.

Yelena Moskovich April 5, 2022

Report

What the Fossil Fuel Industry Learned from Anti-BDS Laws

Attacks on Israel’s critics have become the template for efforts to suppress climate activism, gun control advocacy, and other progressive movements.

Alex Kane April 4, 2022

Newsletter

On Ukraine, Israel’s Communists Choose Not to Choose

Some left-wing politicians are reluctant to condemn Russia’s invasion because of deep historic links between the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Israel.

Joshua Leifer March 31, 2022

Newsletter

How the War in Ukraine Is Changing Israel’s Refugee Policies

Rules are changing in a hurry for non-Jewish Ukrainian refugees, but refugees from other regions haven’t yet benefited.

Alex Kane March 29, 2022

Dispatch

The Passion of 964 Park Place

A standoff between tenant organizers and yeshiva students over the fate of a Black family’s home summoned the specter of the Crown Heights riots, and provided an object lesson in housing activism at the end of the Covid eviction moratorium.

Ari M. Brostoff March 29, 2022

Editors' Note

We Need New Stories of Post-Soviet Jews

A letter from the issue committee

Julia Alekseyeva, Tova Benjamin, Oksana Mironova, and Sasha Senderovich March 28, 2022

Poetry

The Bone Museum

“I approached the bones— / the skeleton mounted / an echo of kinship”

Donika Kelly March 25, 2022

Newsletter

The Dangers of a “New Cold War” with Russia

A conversation with the historian and foreign policy expert Stephen Wertheim.

David Klion March 24, 2022

Newsletter

Facing Questions About Its Israel Trips, the Sierra Club Falters

Under pressure first from Palestinian and then from Israel advocates, the environmental group has struggled to navigate travel to the region.

Isaac Scher March 22, 2022

Analysis

The Wrong Way to Boycott

In contrast to ineffective—or even unethical—actions targeting Russian culture and individuals, the Palestinian BDS campaign is a model of how to use boycott and divestment efforts strategically.

Yousef Munayyer March 22, 2022