Authors / Arielle Angel

Arielle Angel is the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents.

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How Would You Feel, Senator Rosen?

Jewish responses to a recent event commemorating the Nakba reveal a communal narcissism, which sees Palestinians’ very identity as being first and foremost about Jews.

Arielle Angel May 11, 2023

Beyond Grievance

Though it may be a potent political tool, grievance can also maintain our investment in our own oppression.

Arielle Angel September 6, 2022

Rehearsing Defeat

Rallies won’t save abortion rights. What will?

Arielle Angel May 5, 2022

For Jews engaged in Palestine solidarity work, what might be gained by refusing excommunication from our own communities?

Arielle Angel September 13, 2021

Selling the Holocaust

Three writers and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, including Plunder author Menachem Kaiser, discuss the conventions of the “3G memoir” and the commodification of Holocaust stories.

Arielle Angel, Maia Ipp, and Menachem Kaiser July 28, 2021

Pink Peacock

The Yiddish Tote Rankling Glasgow Police

A co-founder of the queer, anarchist café Pink Peacock discusses recent run-ins with law enforcement and Jewish leftism in the UK.

Arielle Angel July 9, 2021

Shedding Thick Skin

As she exits Jewish Voice for Peace, Rabbi Alissa Wise describes the emotional toll of years of Jewish activism for Palestine.

Arielle Angel April 2, 2021

Are We Post-Sepharadim?

A conversation with scholar Devin E. Naar about what meaningful Sephardic representation might look like in the wake of near-total erasure.

Arielle Angel October 20, 2020

Exodus From Now

Reflections from quarantine on the Jewish commandment to make a calendar.

Arielle Angel April 7, 2020

To respond to the coronavirus crisis, we must fight to replace the logics of capitalism with the logics of care.

Arielle Angel March 18, 2020

Understanding Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis

The new British Jewish left is mobilizing to reframe the narrative around antisemitism in Labour.

Arielle Angel December 6, 2019

Kaddish for David Berman

His albums took up the grand project of Jewishness, to which he came honestly: wrestling with God, playing the stranger.

Arielle Angel and Nathan Goldman August 9, 2019

Picturing Power

Moving protest from performance to disruption.

Arielle Angel July 22, 2019

Art in a State of Emergency

What is the artist’s responsibility in a time of political crisis?

Arielle Angel July 31, 2018

(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