Jewish Currents

Report

Rent Is Due

March 31, 2020Brendan O'Connor

As tenants face impossible choices, debates emerge over how to organize.

Analysis

“The Beginning of Breakdown”

March 31, 2020Joshua Leifer

Benny Gantz’s capitulation to Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition has left Israel’s constitutional order more vulnerable to right-wing efforts to undermine it.

Conversation

A Vote for the Fire

March 27, 2020Joshua Simon

Malcolm Harris, the author of the new essay collection Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit, reflects on a long, dystopian decade.

Poetry

Watching the Twilight

March 27, 2020Choi Seung-ja

“Painstakingly, the Earth spins, and as it does, / I look out into the world inside an incubator”

Conversation

Rest, Build, and Fight

March 25, 2020The Editors

The Jewish Currents editorial staff discusses how its relationship to work and political struggle is shifting in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Report

“We Are Sitting Ducks”

March 23, 2020Mari Cohen

As the Covid-19 crisis escalates, incarcerated people across the country describe a climate of fear, uncertainty, and unpreparedness.

Conversation

From Bad to Worse

March 20, 2020Alex Kane

Ghada Majadle of Physicians for Human Rights fears that Israel’s restrictive policies could exacerbate the effects of a coronavirus outbreak in the West Bank and Gaza.

Conversation

The Militarization of Quarantine

March 20, 2020Rosa Schwartzburg

Eyal Weizman, director of the interdisciplinary research agency Forensic Architecture, discusses state responses to the Covid-19 crisis and how the “state of exception” might become the norm.