Essay Archives – Jewish Currents

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How to Fight Antisemitism

November 11, 2019Bernie Sanders

The forces fomenting antisemitism are the forces arrayed against oppressed people around the world, including Palestinians.

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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.

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Just Playing Along

October 7, 2019Eric Thurm

What an antisemitic, Nazi-era board game has to teach us about the nature of complicity.

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An Antisemitic Judge, a White Supremacist System

October 4, 2019Rebecca Pierce , Isaac Brosilow

A Jewish death row inmate in Texas confronts the same forces that kill and incarcerate Black and Brown people daily.

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Italy’s Green Fascists

September 18, 2019Erica X Eisen

La Foresta Che Avanza is using environmentalism to make its fascist ideology more palatable to the mainstream.

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Where Did the Past Go?

August 26, 2019Ben Lorber

Revisiting an iconic pamphlet about antisemitism and the left.

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On Being a Fetish

August 20, 2019Fancy Feast

Is identity-based kink ever kosher?

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The Right Kind of Continuity

August 7, 2019Marissa Brostoff , Noah Kulwin

Jeffrey Epstein and the sexual politics of Jewish philanthropy.

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Picturing Power

July 22, 2019Arielle Angel

Moving protest from performance to disruption.

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The Jewish Case for Open Borders

July 15, 2019Greg Afinogenov

How center-left immigration proposals lead to far-right policy.

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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Category Archives: Essay

Essay

How to Fight Antisemitism

Essay

Washing the Dead in Pittsburgh

Essay

Just Playing Along

Essay

An Antisemitic Judge, a White Supremacist System

Essay

Italy’s Green Fascists

Essay

Where Did the Past Go?

Essay

On Being a Fetish

Essay

The Right Kind of Continuity

Essay

Picturing Power

Essay

The Jewish Case for Open Borders

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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