Review
Trick of the Light
Adrienne Brown
Conversation
For the Sake of Truth
Poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd discusses his debut collection, the vexed meanings of visibility, and the long history of Palestinian freedom struggles.
Claire Schwartz
Report
How Israel Advocates Shut Down a Union’s Motion to Endorse BDS
Isaac Scher
Poetry
Ode to the Security Woman
Mona Kareem
Photo Essay
Portraits of Resistance in Masafer Yatta
Emily Glick
Office Hours
Office Hours: Vitaly
“If I can’t come into the classroom ready to listen, it’s not an abolitionist space.”
Richie Reseda
Feature
Ritchie Torres Is the Future of “Pro-Israel” Politics
Alex Kane
Essay
From Minneapolis to Jerusalem
Hannah Black
From the Archives
The Israeli Far Right’s Man in Princeton
How did Im Tirtzu founder Ronen Shoval end up promoting Israel’s judicial overhaul at one of the US’s most prestigious universities?
Dahlia Krutkovich and Sarah Rosen
National Plan Reflects the Debate Over Antisemitism
While generally promising more of the same, the Biden plan signaled in multiple ways that progressive groups have succeeded in making Jewish politics a contested space.
Mari Cohen
Reform Judaism Needs an Identity Beyond Israel
A major conference proposes to “re-charge” the movement by strengthening ties to the Jewish state, neglecting an opportunity to develop its unique religious vision.
David Regenspan
The Strange Hours
Finding a new relationship with rest in early motherhood
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
Essay
To Grieve the World Like a Dying Friend
Cynthia Friedman
Essay
Looking for a Lineage in the Lusk Archive
The records of a New York surveillance committee from the time of the First Red Scare document a radical world—and its demise.
Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova
Editor‘s Picks
West Bank
A Prison Break Liberates the Palestinian Political Imagination
Six detainees’ dramatic escape from a maximum-security Israeli prison has sparked demonstrations across the occupied territories and shifted Palestinians’ sense of what is possible.
Dalia Hatuqa
“They Want To Kick Us Out of This Land”
An interview with journalist and activist Basil al-Adraa about covering settler violence
Mari Cohen
Shabbat Terror in the West Bank
For religious Zionist settlers in the South Hebron Hills, attacks on Palestinians have become a Shabbat afternoon pastime.
Maya Rosen
Book Launch: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart
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Report
Inside the Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters
Theia Chatelle
Review
Sonic Bloom
Sanders Isaac Bernstein
Review
No Exit
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Report
Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?
Mari Cohen
Comic
Hey Chubbs!
Christopher Blackwell
Poetry
Translation
Hayan Charara
Letters from Our Readers
On “Florida Is Everywhere”
As I read Arielle Angel’s letter from the editor in Jewish Currents’s Florida issue, I thought about how Florida may be best understood simply as one of the northernmost parts of the Global South. Situating the state in this context, we can see it for what it is: a space... more
William Shoki
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
On “Bodies of Water”
I wanted to express my appreciation for “Bodies of Water,” a conversation between the artist Sasha Wortzel and the photographer Shoog McDaniel in the recent Florida issue of Jewish Currents. It is so rare to see fat voices and fat bodies represented positively, or even neutrally. In leftist media, depictions... more
Phoebe Wahl
Bellingham, WA
Bellingham, WA
