Sep

23

2024

Weekly Roundup - 09/23/24

This week: In a deep dive from our Florida issue, journalist Max Freedman explores whether the ultraconservative Jewish community of South Florida is an outlier or an omen for the future of American Jewry.

We are also sending a new poem, “PURE&LOVE” by Ahmad Almallah, introduced by culture editor Claire Schwartz.

In 2021, our director of community engagement Solomon Brager created a comic about the cynical Jewish reclamation of indigeneity. Following the comic’s recent translation into French, we are re-sharing the original below.

In the latest batch of letters to the editor, our readers respond to cartoonist Eli Valley’s critical caricature of Kamala Harris and fellow Jonathan Shamir’s review of The Zone of Interest. If you have a letter you’d like to submit, please send it to editor@jewishcurrents.org with the subject line “LETTER.”

P.S. Contributing writer Christopher Blackwell is hosting upcoming presentations on his forthcoming book about solitary confinement, provisionally titled Life in the Hole: The Case Against Solitary Confinement. The same presentation will be held twice, on September 23rd (today!) at 2pm PST (5pm EST) and on October 7th at 1pm PST (4pm EST), and both can be accessed at this Zoom link. You can make a tax-deductible donation to support the project here.