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Oct
6
2022

Help Us Build the Jewish Currents Community

Dear friend,

I hope that those celebrating enjoyed a meaningful holiday. In our house, it was a time of both joy and reflection.

To mark this special time, a generous supporter has offered to match all donations to Jewish Currents through the end of the day tomorrow. Please join them by contributing a gift and your donation amount will be doubled.

These gifts will help support programming that will bring readers like you together to learn with one another through reading groups, speaker series, and events around the country. But that can only happen with your support.

Support Jewish Currents this week and whatever you contribute will be matched by a gift from one of our generous supporters.

Through these holidays, I have been reminded of why I came to Jewish Currents. To many, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur appear less obviously political than the likes of Pesach or Purim. But Rosh Hashanah only became the Jewish New Year in exile, when the rabbis embraced the Babylonian calendar; and the authorship of the most powerful and perplexing of prayers uttered on Yom Kippur, the unetaneh tokef, is often attributed to a rabbi who wrote it after enduring torture in the crusades.

In other words, these holidays are products of diaspora. They ask us to consider our collective responsibility for a world in which too many endure violence and suffering because they are outsiders—the wrong nationality, the wrong color, or speakers of the wrong language. I joined Jewish Currents because I believe it is essential that we have a publication that exposes the injustices for which we are collectively responsible while celebrating the vitality of Jewish life.

Give today and your gift will be doubled by a matching gift from one of our generous supporters.

At Jewish Currents we are committed not only to publishing a magazine that honors those commitments, but in building a community that stands for them. In the coming year, we’re excited to invest in that community with new programming, and we’re grateful that a generous supporter has offered to match all contributions made this week.

Give today and your gift will be doubled by a matching gift from one of our generous supporters.

May your coming year be filled with joy,

Peter Beinart