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Oct
28
2024

Weekly Roundup - 10/28/24

This week: Four Palestinians refugees from the Gaza Strip speak to contributing writer Jonathan Shamir about their experience of exile and the loss entailed in leaving.

In an essay on this week’s parshah, Israel/Palestine fellow Maya Rosen reflects on how the rabbinic understanding of the destruction that precedes the world’s creation speaks to our current political moment.

From our recent Florida issue, writer Samantha Schuyler reviews Ron DeSantis’s memoir and considers the Florida governor’s terrifying blueprint for America—which could end up influencing a second Trump term.

This week, to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of the Gazan scholar and political activist Khalil Abu Yahia, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike alongside his wife Tasnim and his daughters Elaf and Rital, we are sharing an obituary by his friends Maya Rosen and Erez Bleicher, a tribute to his political imagination and commitment to a world beyond borders.

Dispatch
Exile from Gaza
Four Palestinians describe how they left Gaza—and how Gaza never leaves them.
Zak Hania, Safa Al-Majdalawi, Amal Al-Majdalawi, and Mohammed Ghalayini
Essay
The Destruction of Worlds
A reading of Parshat Breishit
Maya Rosen
Review
The Energetic Executive
Ron DeSantis wants to make his blueprint for Florida—outlined in the rancorous memoir written for his failed presidential campaign—into a model for the rest of the country.
Samantha Schuyler

From the Archive

Obituary
Remembering Khalil Abu Yahia
The Gazan scholar and activist, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month, believed in the radical potential of solidarity.
Maya Rosen and Erez Bleicher