Jewish Currents

Report

How Jewish Organizations Are Responding to the Kurdish Crisis

November 4, 2019Daniel Boguslaw

Jews and Kurds share histories of exile and persecution, but the US and Israel’s geopolitical interests complicate solidarity.

Conversation

“Our Solidarity Will Defeat White Nationalism”

October 30, 2019David Klion

Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc, describes getting arrested protesting Trump in Pittsburgh a year after the massacre.

Conversation

Fighting for Rojava

October 29, 2019Michael McCanne

A Jewish American anarchist who fought alongside the Kurds against ISIS reflects on his experiences and the current state of the region.

Dispatch

Don’t Call It an Anniversary

October 28, 2019C.A. Pinkham

One year after the Tree of Life attack, the Jewish community of Pittsburgh is still trying to make sense of what happened.

Poetry

Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018

October 25, 2019Daniel Borzutzky

“The laws of the bomb and the laws of the armistice are the same”

Essay

Washing the Dead in Pittsburgh

October 24, 2019Jordana Rosenfeld

Our burial practices offer more than a way of dealing with the dead; they are antifascism in action.

Review

Self-Hater

October 23, 2019Mitchell Abidor

In Nadav Lapid’s new film, Synonyms, a young Israeli attempts to outrun his own Israeliness.

Review

Cancer and Its Metaphors

October 22, 2019Nancy K. Miller

Anne Boyer’s The Undying seeks a new form for the cancer memoir.

Report

From the Ashes of the Old

October 21, 2019Alex Press

Can DSA transform the labor movement?

Poetry

The Goat

October 18, 2019Umberto Saba

“This bleating was the twin / of my own sorrow. And I answered”

Don’t Call It an Anniversary

What Really Happened at Bard College?

An Antisemitic Judge, a White Supremacist System

Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018

Bari Weiss’s Unasked Questions

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Report

How Jewish Organizations Are Responding to the Kurdish Crisis

Conversation

“Our Solidarity Will Defeat White Nationalism”

Conversation

Fighting for Rojava

Dispatch

Don’t Call It an Anniversary

Poetry

Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018

Essay

Washing the Dead in Pittsburgh

Review

Self-Hater

Review

Cancer and Its Metaphors

Report

From the Ashes of the Old

Poetry

The Goat

Further Reading

Don’t Call It an Anniversary

What Really Happened at Bard College?

An Antisemitic Judge, a White Supremacist System

Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018

Bari Weiss’s Unasked Questions

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