Authors / Raphael Magarik
Raphael Magarik is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a contributing writer for Jewish Currents.
Analysis
A Dangerous Alliance
UCLA students arguing that Zionism is a First Amendment-protected religious belief have joined a powerful right-wing legal project.
Raphael Magarik September 13, 2024
Chevruta
(How) Should We Vote?
An investigation through Jewish text on the ethics of choosing the “lesser of two evils.”
Raphael Magarik August 1, 2024
Conversation
The Complicity of Israeli Academia
Scholar Maya Wind discusses Israeli universities’ longstanding role in Palestinian subjugation.
Raphael Magarik May 23, 2024
Conversation
Can Tourism Be Liberatory?
In Invited to Witness, scholar Jennifer Lynn Kelly discusses the political possibilities of Palestinian solidarity tourism.
Raphael Magarik July 27, 2023
Review
The Prophet with Eyes
In Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob, based on the real life of a self-proclaimed Jewish messiah in 18th-century Poland, theological energy competes with the liberal novel’s finely wrought machinery.
Raphael Magarik November 28, 2022
Conversation
Meir Kahane’s Long Shadow
The far-right activist and politician died in disgrace, but Shaul Magid’s new book argues that his ideas have shaped mainstream American Judaism.
Raphael Magarik November 24, 2021
Review
Who Owns American Judaism?
Lila Corwin Berman’s new book traces the explosion of the American Jewish philanthropic sector over the past 70 years—and its corrosive effect on contemporary Jewish life.
Raphael Magarik June 1, 2021
Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition
Exodus: Vayakhel
After a political rupture, rituals of repetition can attempt to restore normalcy—or throw it into question.
Raphael Magarik March 12, 2021
Analysis
Brexit Is Bad for the Jews
A Labour win is Britain’s best chance of staying in the European Union—a guard against far-right nationalism.
Raphael Magarik December 4, 2019
