Newsletter

Morality, Fate, Faith, Freedom: Reasons to Revisit Bernard Malamud

“Can a writer write for all men from a position of minority? Malamud’s work convinces me.”

Nellie Hermann October 8, 2018

A Palestinian Filmmaker Asks: What Do Fathers and Sons Owe Each Other?

In Annemarie Jacir’s Wajib, a family considers what it means to build a life.

Naomi Dann October 5, 2018

The American Jewish Establishment’s Sinister Turn

A new report links influential Jewish institutions to a McCarthyite blacklist of pro-Palestinian activists.

Noah Kulwin October 3, 2018

The DOJ Fired Me For Protesting Family Separation. I Don’t Regret It.

Speaking truth to power is necessary to force political change.

Allison Hrabar October 2, 2018

The Local Lulav

In creating our diasporic lulavs, we asked ourselves what a radical, ethical practice of Sukkot looks like in our various homes.

Rakia Sky Brown, Gabi Kirk, Noah Rubin-Blose, and Miriam Saperstein September 28, 2018

By What Law

Israel triumphed in acquiring a large stash of Kafka’s manuscripts. But does Israel—or anyone—really get to to claim Kafka as their own?

Nathan Goldman September 25, 2018

A Bid to Be Seen

On the Palestine Museum US, which opened this spring.

Michael McCanne September 24, 2018

What Marx Got Wrong

A new biography of the philosopher misses the shortcomings of the Marxist tradition.

Mitchell Abidor September 20, 2018