Responsa
We Need New Jewish Institutions
Sustaining the struggle will require spaces for reimagining our tradition.
Arielle Angel
Office Hours
Laura Whitehorn
“We must have courage and not run for the hills.”
Nick Barber
Conversation
Who Might We Become for Each Other?
A conversation about Black–Palestinian interconnectedness and the legacy of June Jordan
Marina Magloire
in conversation with
George Abraham, Zaina Alsous, Aurielle Marie, and aja monet
Essay
Against Zionist Realism
Is “Not In Our Name” Jewish organizing around Palestine inflating our culpability as Jews—and downplaying our complicity as Americans?
Jon Danforth-Appell
Profile
The Measure of the World
By attending to the vibrant specificity of Black life, poet Dionne Brand contests the cruel mathematics of empire.
Claire Schwartz
Art
What’s Ours
Myriam Boulos’s photographs probe the porous boundaries between everyday life and revolutionary rupture.
Aria Aber
Poetry
Les petites vieilles
“The other wishes she were in Beirut, / but the Beirut she thought she knew is not / there”
Marilyn Hacker
Poetry
Another Example of Repetition
“In a world where the news commits genocide, / one should not report news after Gaza.”
Fady Joudah
Fiction
What You Deserve
“Be careful what you wish for, is the moral of the story, except when the moral is something more like: unless, what if, if only.”
Lyta Gold
Review
History Lesson
Adam Kirsch’s On Settler Colonialism is an anti-woke screed disguised as serious scholarship.
Laleh Khalili
Review
The Sympathy Trap
In Perfect Victims, Mohammed El-Kurd argues that attempts to “humanize” Palestinians reinforce the Zionist politics they purport to contest.
Jackie Wang