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Magazine / Fall/Winter 2024

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Merle Favis
“There are cracks that exist in our communities, and we need to build from them.”
Maya Schkolne
Report
Defunding Dissent
Philanthropists have quietly withdrawn funding from grassroots groups that spoke out for Gaza, imperiling a broad range of social justice movements.
Will Alden
Essay
The Algeria Analogy
We must turn to histories of decolonization not in order to predict outcomes, but to expand our sense of how to fight without knowing the future.
Arthur Asseraf
Report
Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?
A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”
Mari Cohen
Art
Things Not Seen
Since October 7th, 2023, fault lines around Palestinian solidarity have changed the landscape of visual art.
Hyperallergic x Jewish Currents
Comic
Hey Chubbs!
Christopher Blackwell
Fiction
Rochelle
“Our friendship was the ideology of my life.”
Lily Meyer
Poetry
Closer
“A perfect day // Can be a backdrop so calm”
Farid Matuk
Poetry
Translation
“he says I want to get the get out of here / By here he means your world / not his”
Hayan Charara
Review
No Exit
Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake cedes the sense of possibility that animates her earlier novels.
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Review
Sonic Bloom
The film The Klezmer Project suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish past.
Sanders Isaac Bernstein