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Poems: Black Hat & Proposal
My hat bobs gaily on her head, / incarnating her as a Hasidic woman / on the extreme edge / of gender confusion.
Robert Hirschfield June 14, 2018
What Went Wrong With Identity Politics?
In a new book, Asad Haider makes the case for coalition-building and a return to universalist radical movements.
Kaila Philo June 13, 2018
Transitions in Jewish Time: A Trans Writer Visits the Mikveh
“Going to the mikveh meant giving my body, as it was, a place to be loved and called to holiness.”
Jayce Koester June 12, 2018
San Francisco’s Burgeoning Socialist Movement Scores an Election Day Victory
Twin victories at the polls are a coming-out party for San Francisco socialists. Will more—and more radical—victories follow?
Chris Roberts June 11, 2018
War in the Language of Hope
Writing in Esperanto, Spomenka Štimec offers a harrowing account of war in luscious detail.
Shoshana Olidort June 11, 2018
The Jewish Group Near the Heart of the Canadian Far Right
How the Jewish Defence League found common cause with raging antisemites.
Evan Balgord June 5, 2018
An Open Letter to NFTY and the Reform Jewish Movement
57 current and former Reform Jewish youth movement leaders take a stand against the Israeli occupation.
IfNotNow June 4, 2018
The American Jewish Army that Never Was
A new work chronicles the attempts by Zionist leaders to raise an American Jewish army to fight Hitler.
Dusty Sklar June 4, 2018