Jewish Currents

Review

Remaking the Canon in Our Image

August 28, 2019Lynn Melnick

This emerging canon of American Jewish poets imagines Jewishness anew in its true complexity and multiplicity.

Essay

Where Did the Past Go?

August 26, 2019Ben Lorber

Revisiting an iconic pamphlet about antisemitism and the left.

Essay

Trump’s “Disloyalty” Comments Are What the Jewish Right Believes

August 22, 2019David Klion

The idea that Jews must be loyal to Israel doesn't originate with the president.

Conversation

There’s No Such Thing as “Free Speech”

August 21, 2019Sophia Steinert-Evoy

Writer P.E. Moskowitz discusses how the left can take back the “technology” of free speech.

Essay

On Being a Fetish

August 20, 2019Fancy Feast

Is identity-based kink ever kosher?

Conversation

Know Your “Enemy”

August 19, 2019Libby Lenkinski

Ethiopian Israeli organizer Avi Yalou discusses the usefulness of the occupation to maintaining oppressive systems within Israel.

Dispatch

We Will Protect Each Other

August 16, 2019Eve Condon

Efforts to scare anti-ICE protesters with extrajudicial violence won’t work.

Essay

This Is the Important Part

August 15, 2019Noah Kulwin

Leveraging US military aid to Israel is the only serious path to peace.

Responsa

Dual Disloyalty

August 13, 2019Jacob Plitman

Who do Jewish institutions actually serve?

We Will Protect Each Other

Dual Disloyalty

Kaddish for David Berman

On Being a Fetish

The Right Kind of Continuity

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