Newsletter

Rent Is Due

As tenants face impossible choices, debates emerge over how to organize.

Brendan O’Connor March 31, 2020

“The Beginning of Breakdown”

Benny Gantz’s capitulation to Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition has left Israel’s constitutional order more vulnerable to right-wing efforts to undermine it.

Joshua Leifer March 31, 2020

A Vote for the Fire

Malcolm Harris, the author of the new essay collection Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit, reflects on a long, dystopian decade.

Joshua Simon March 27, 2020

Watching the Twilight

“Painstakingly, the Earth spins, and as it does, / I look out into the world inside an incubator”

Choi Seung-ja March 27, 2020

Rest, Build, and Fight

The Jewish Currents editorial staff discusses how its relationship to work and political struggle is shifting in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Editors March 25, 2020

“We Are Sitting Ducks”

As the Covid-19 crisis escalates, incarcerated people across the country describe a climate of fear, uncertainty, and unpreparedness.

Mari Cohen March 23, 2020

From Bad to Worse

Ghada Majadle of Physicians for Human Rights fears that Israel’s restrictive policies could exacerbate the effects of a coronavirus outbreak in the West Bank and Gaza.

Alex Kane March 20, 2020

The Militarization of Quarantine

Eyal Weizman, director of the interdisciplinary research agency Forensic Architecture, discusses state responses to the Covid-19 crisis and how the “state of exception” might become the norm.

Rosa Schwartzburg March 20, 2020