Responsa
Meditations in an Emergency
On climate change, the Holocaust, and messianic time
Ari M. Brostoff
Office Hours
Office Hours: Leny Strobel
“Do you know the mountain? Do you know the river? Do you know the trees?”
Arielle Korman
How To
How to Give Yourself an Abortion
with pills
Arielle Swernoff
Memoir
Immersion
Finding strength in brokenness after a traumatic trip to Israel
Kathleen Rice-Guter
Conversation
Best-Case Scenario
Jewish Currents interviews the authors of A Planet to Win
about the radical potential of the Green New Deal.
Jewish Currents
Obituary
Kaddish for David Berman
His albums took up the grand project of Jewishness, to which he came honestly: wrestling with God, playing the stranger.
Arielle Angel and Nathan Goldman
Poetry
Sisterhood
“Sister, when we found the hare, / a wounded emigrant in our yard, / it was already dying—it wasn’t our fault”
Aria Aber
Poetry
Ladder
“How does / a story break?”
Tom Haviv
Art
Doron Langberg and the New Queer Intimism
An emerging movement in painting depicts everyday queer life with striking intimacy.
Tyler Malone
Fiction
Why We Talk in Images
“Marion takes a deep breath; the air shimmers around her, and the floor wobbles under the bed; and Henry and Dot learn that you cannot prepare yourself, in the face of death, for death.”
Will Heinrich
Review
Bari Weiss’s Unasked Questions
In How to Fight Anti-Semitism, a facile approach to history justifies an impoverished ethical stance.
Judith Butler
Review
Changing the Climate
Naomi Klein’s new collection provides a historical overview of the last decade—one that charts how far the environmental left has come.
Alex Lubben
Review
The Courage and Cowardice of Vasily Grossman
Stalingrad represents yet another effort by the author to elevate the intimately personal over the anonymously political.
Becca Rothfeld
Art
I see a past in ruins and a future in embryo
Mollie Goldstrom
