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The Right to Grieve
To demand the freedom to mourn—not on the employer’s schedule, but in our own time—is to reject the cruel rhythms of the capitalist status quo.
Erik Baker
March 13, 2023
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The Trap of Palestinian Participation
An open letter considers the impossible choice facing Palestinians: Participate as a token in conversations premised on their oppression, or be branded rejectionists.
Tareq Baconi
February 10, 2023
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Edifice Complex
Restoring the term “burnout” to its roots in landlord arson puts the dispossession of poor city dwellers at its center.
Bench Ansfield
January 3, 2023
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Understanding Apartheid
Embracing a radical critique of Israeli apartheid is a precondition for bringing it to a just end.
Noura Erakat and John Reynolds
November 1, 2022
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Point of No Return
Palestinians cannot turn back the hands of time. But we might still imagine a world beyond exile.
Dylan Saba
October 24, 2022
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The Embattled Edward Said
Facing attacks on multiple fronts, Said nevertheless continued to challenge Israel’s monopoly on representations of Palestine.
Nubar Hovsepian
September 21, 2022
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Answering Said’s Call
While discourse on Israel-Palestine has shifted for the better since 1989, meeting Said’s challenge will require American Jewish intellectuals to recognize that Palestinian equality and Jewish safety are ultimately intertwined.
Peter Beinart
September 21, 2022
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Therapy Was Never Secular
Reclaiming the religious roots of mental healthcare.
hannah baer
September 14, 2022
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Refusing to Bury the Living
Emigrating from the USSR to the US meant fleeing one system of mass incarceration for another.
Egina Manachova
May 9, 2022
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Bela’s Pilgrim
The story of my salvation
Bela Shayevich
April 25, 2022
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Darkness in the Holy Land
An introduction to the Haggadah of the Black Panthers in Israel.
Reuven Abergel
April 13, 2022
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חושך מצרים בארץ הקודש
מבוא להגדת הפנתרים השחורים
Reuven Abergel
April 13, 2022
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The Soul of the Worker
A mid-century Chabad writer protests the “shidduch” between socialism and secularism.
Eli Rubin
April 11, 2022
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A Lesson in Arabic Grammar by Toni Morrison
On the syntax of relation
Adania Shibli
March 21, 2022
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The Education of Desire
On putting the world back together
Dionne Brand
March 21, 2022
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The Matter of Who’s Who
On solving for race
Lauren Michele Jackson
March 21, 2022
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Handle with Care
On invisible ink and archival imagination
Simone Browne
March 21, 2022
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Reading Otherwise
On kinship, racial pedagogy, and reading as revision
Claire Schwartz
March 21, 2022
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A Sound Without a Source
Ghédalia Tazartès undermined any assumptions of origins, creating music, and living a life, proper to his diasporic condition.
Joe Bucciero
February 14, 2022
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From Minneapolis to Jerusalem
On Black–Palestinian solidarity
Hannah Black
October 25, 2021
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Reclaiming the Covenant of Fate
As American Jewry’s Zionist consensus crumbles, we must learn to address one another across communal divides.
Peter Beinart
September 20, 2021
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The Nakba Demands Justice
Reckoning with the ongoing Palestinian catastrophe means giving the land back.
Kaleem Hawa
May 14, 2021
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Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return
Given our history, how can Jews deny another people the right to return to their homeland?
Peter Beinart
May 11, 2021
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This Is Not a #YomHaShoah Instagram Post
If I give you my grandparents’ stories, what will you do with them, dear “followers,” and friends, and “friends”?
Helen Betya Rubinstein
April 8, 2021
