Responsa
Dual Disloyalty
Who do Jewish institutions actually serve?
Jacob Plitman
Office Hours
Office Hours: Avram Finkelstein
“Ethics are irrelevant if they’re coming for you.”
Dan Fishback
Essay
Where Did the Past Go?
Revisiting an iconic pamphlet about antisemitism and the left.
Ben Lorber
Report
Gods, Guns, and Country
Trade in weapons and ultra-nationalist ideas is driving an expanding India–Israel alliance.
Carol Schaeffer
Essay
Picturing Power
Moving protest from performance to disruption.
Arielle Angel
Essay
The Jewish Case for Open Borders
How center-left immigration proposals lead to far-right policy.
Greg Afinogenov
Poetry
Two Poems
“My cells are radicalizing. I obscure them with a crown.”
Simon Crafts
Poetry
Matrilineage
“I guess I will always have to make room for the ancestral / or it will make itself a room in me”
Susannah Sharpless
Fiction
Am I a Jew or a Pole?
“Quietly, he whispered in my ear, ‘Assimilation has gone bankrupt.’ ”
Hersh Dovid Nomberg
Art
Shirley Wegner’s Unsettled Landscapes
In Wegner’s photographs, we are looking not at historic events but at collective memories.
Michael McCanne
Fiction
Happiness, As Such
An excerpt from a 1973 novel by Natalia Ginzburg, newly translated by Minna Zallman Proctor.
Natalia Ginzburg
Comic
Bayla’s No Show
Bayla and her therapist discuss what to do about Bayla’s floundering art career.
Hinda Avery
Review
An Answering Art
What would an English translation of the Hebrew Bible look like if we could take off the Christ-colored glasses?
Justin Taylor
Review
Searching for Black Thought in White Antifascism
Natasha Lennard’s otherwise incisive new essay collection fails to adequately address what nonwhiteness might offer antifascist thought.
Zoé Samudzi
Review
Remaking the Canon in Our Image
This emerging canon of American Jewish poets imagines Jewishness anew in its true complexity and multiplicity.
Lynn Melnick
Art
Am I Jared Kushner?
Karl Haendel
Essay
The Uproar of the World
Waltzing with a Yiddish “singing philosopher”
Helen Engelhardt
