Naming the Dead
Novelist Maaza Mengiste discusses the erasure of women’s war stories, photography as a weapon of subjugation, and her new book, The Shadow King.
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The Exorcist
Collaborators Aaron Henne and Erith Jaffe-Berg discuss theatre dybbuk’s new performance about a Jewish descent into Hell.
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Becoming Yigal Amir
Director Yaron Zilberman and actor Yehuda Nahari Halevi discuss their new film, Incitement, which reckons with the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Standing Up to Likud’s Voter Suppression
Raluca Ganea discusses the role of grassroots activism in Israel’s flailing democracy.
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Hope Wrapped in Barbed Wire
Israeli author Etgar Keret discusses translation, mixing pathos with humor, and his new book of short stories, Fly Already.
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There’s No Such Thing as “Free Speech”
Writer P.E. Moskowitz discusses how the left can take back the “technology” of free speech.
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Know Your “Enemy”
Ethiopian Israeli organizer Avi Yalou discusses the usefulness of the occupation to maintaining oppressive systems within Israel.
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The Future of the Forward
New Forward editor Jodi Rudoren discusses what's next for the 122-year-old institution.
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The Price of Living Together
Houria Bouteldja lays out the choice facing the Jewish community: provisional privilege or solidarity.
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Apartheid Is Israel’s “Desired Reality”
An interview with Haaretz journalist Amira Hass about occupation, the diaspora, and what comes next.
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