Magazine / Spring 2018

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On an Emerging Diasporism

The simultaneous crises of the Trump presidency in America and the ongoing rightward radicalization of Israel are fueling a Diasporic revival. Where might it take us?

Birthright Israel and #MeToo

Jewish Currents spoke with more than 50 Birthright Israel participants and staffers about their experiences with the often-fraught sexual and gender dynamics on the famous free trip to Israel. Here is what we found.

Sarah M. Seltzer

Desire, boxing, prayer, and the Holocaust remembered. Bold fiction set in contemporary Berlin by Maia Ipp.

(Re)Writing Remembrance

Maia Ipp and Arielle Angel

The Jewish Group Near the Heart of the Canadian Far Right

How the Jewish Defence League found common cause with raging antisemites.

Dear Emma Scoldman

Dilemma in Delhi

Advice columnist Emma Scoldman answers letters from a traveler who doesn’t want to harden his heart, and more.

Poland’s New Holocaust Law Is Bad, But Not the Worst

The law is an overreaction to some common mischaracterizations of Poland’s role in the Holocaust, but it’s far from the worst example of legal revisionism in Europe.

(Re)Writing Remembrance

Two grandchildren of Holocaust survivors exchange letters on making art and meaning from the Holocaust.

Maia Ipp and Arielle Angel

Unlearning Woody Allen

It’s a cop-out to say that the heart wants what it wants.

Revolutionary Love, Revolutionary Heartbreak

Houria Bouteldja’s Whites, Jews, and Us is a useful re-contextualization of antisemitism, but fails as an act of revolutionary love.

How the South Won the Civil War

Mitchell Abidor

Care as Resistance

Bennett Muraskin

From the Sweatshop to the Soapbox

Environmental Regulation Is Our Past and Our Future

I’m Fine Spiritually

Jews and the right to choose