Dec
23
2024
The Jewish Currents staff is off this week and next to recharge, so we won’t be publishing pieces or the Shabbat Reading List (though you can still look out for the weekly parshah commentary). See you in 2025!
This week: In a major investigation that we are sharing as a preview of our new Fall/Winter issue, contributor Will Alden uncovers how philanthropists are pulling funds from activist groups that have spoken out in solidarity with Palestinians, putting a wide range of social justice causes in danger.
In a new report, writer Theia Chatelle draws on exclusive documents to expose the Yale Police Department’s use of counterterrorism tactics to shut down student protests.
We are also sharing a conversation between contributing editor Ben Ratskoff and scholar Sonali Thakkar about her recent book The Reeducation of Race, which explores the origins of contemporary liberal anti-racism.
For the latest episode of our podcast On the Nose, associate editor Mari Cohen, senior reporter Alex Kane, contributing editor Dylan Saba, and political strategist Emma Saltzberg discuss the ways the Trump administration is likely to repress pro-Palestine organizing, and consider how these plans might be opposed.
Finally, ahead of the start of Hanukkah on Wednesday night, we are re-sharing Rabbi Lexie Botzum’s 2023 essay about how to understand the holiday in a way that eschews colonial understandings of light and dark.
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