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Joel Shatzky, 1943–2020
Remembering a beloved Jewish Currents contributor.
Ilana Abramovitch and Leonard Lehrman June 2, 2020
Living the Unlivable
Jasbir K. Puar on the Great March of Return and the perils of exceptionalizing the Gaza blockade.
Samuel Holleran June 1, 2020
Jews of Color and the Policing of White Space
The infamous 911 call in Central Park has hard lessons for Jewish communal spaces.
Rebecca Pierce May 29, 2020
Provisions #5: “tarnished, / problematic, and certainly uneven—a we”
Meditations in a crisis on writing by René Ménil, Ari Banias, and Andrea Rexilius.
Saretta Morgan, Samuel Ace, and Carolina Ebeid May 29, 2020
All Epidemics Are Social
The historical memory of those who lived through and organized during the AIDS crisis offers an invaluable resource in the struggle for a just response to the coronavirus emergency.
Ari M. Brostoff May 28, 2020
Honoring the Dead From a Distance
A socially distant taharah is an oxymoron that underscores the particular agony of this moment.
Jordana Rosenfeld May 27, 2020
Accounting for Jews of Color
Critics say a new article challenging the number of Jews of color undermines the slow progress Jews of color have made in securing communal funding for inclusivity efforts.
Mairav Zonszein May 26, 2020
Who Speaks in the Jewish Novel?
In 2019, American Jewish fiction took a renewed interest in the question of who gets to write about whom.
Josh Lambert May 25, 2020