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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
Sholem Aleichem’s Revolutionary Chickens, and a Yom Kippur Tradition
The surprising origins of Yom Kippur’s kappores and tashlikh rituals.
Jonah S. Boyarin September 17, 2018
Dobranotch Delights in New York
The St. Petersburg-based klezmer ensemble brings the party to Little Odessa and the East Village.
Samantha Shokin September 17, 2018