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Sep
9
2024

Weekly Roundup - 09/16/24

This week: The collective editorial responsa from our Florida issue is now online, detailing how Jewish organizations’ hostility to Palestinian history has abetted the right’s attack on education.

Visual journalist Wahaj Bani Moufleh’s photo essay captures Israel’s destructive siege of the West Bank city of Jenin, introduced by Israel/Palestine fellow Maya Rosen. And contributing writer Raphael Magarik argues that UCLA students’ bid to reframe Zionism as a First Amendment-protected religious belief places them in a longstanding reactionary tradition, with dangerous consequences.

After another American self-immolated to protest US support for Israel’s devastation of Gaza, we are re-upping our chevruta column from April in which editor-in-chief Arielle Angel and Rabbi Lexie Botzum examined Jewish sources on self-sacrifice in light of Aaron Bushnell’s death.

P.S. Last week, Jewish Currents was profiled in The New Yorker. You can read the piece here.

Responsa
More Truth
To truly oppose the right’s attacks on education, Jewish communities must face Palestinian history.
Photo Essay
The Siege of Jenin
In a brutal, ten-day-long incursion, the Israeli army reduced large swaths of the West Bank city to ruin.
Wahaj Bani Moufleh
Analysis
A Dangerous Alliance
UCLA students arguing that Zionism is a First Amendment-protected religious belief have joined a powerful right-wing legal project.
Raphael Magarik

From the Archive

Chevruta
How Much Must We Sacrifice for Justice?
An investigation through Jewish text, in the wake of Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation for Gaza
Lexie Botzum