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An Excerpt from Rejwach

“What it is about you, you Jews, that whatever anyone says about you, it’s never a neutral subject?”

Mikołaj Grynberg April 21, 2020

A Conversation with Mikołaj Grynberg

“I think the figure of the Jew is always used in times of crisis.”

Sean Gasper Bye April 21, 2020

Remembrances: Michael Sorkin, Helène Aylon, Maurice Berger

Reflections on lives lost to Covid-19.

Samuel Stein, Clare Kinberg, and Ariel Goldberg April 21, 2020

Nurses Everywhere Are Organizing

With or without a union, nurses in harm’s way are turning to collective action to demand better protections.

Mari Cohen April 20, 2020

Provisions #2: “The world begins at a kitchen table.”

Meditations in a crisis on poems by Donika Kelly, Joy Harjo, and Nâzim Hikmet.

Cameron Awkward-Rich, Ariana Katz, and Claire Schwartz April 17, 2020

Orbán’s Illiberalism Tests the EU

After a dramatic power grab by the Hungarian prime minister, will the European Union finally stand up against the nation’s slide into autocracy?

Joshua Leifer April 16, 2020

Exodus: An Introduction

The Bible is long and the length of our self-isolation uncertain, so we decided to read the Book of Exodus.

Ari M. Brostoff, Sarah Chihaya, and Dan Sinykin April 15, 2020

The Prophet of Mt. Mitchell

“It’s not what they called maggid, a voice. It’s not even a yearning. It’s a sense of loss, and of wanting what’s ahead or behind but not where we are.”

Daniel Torday April 13, 2020