Newsletter
Oct
2
2023
This week: In a powerful essay, Erik Baker encourages us to move beyond understanding the strike as merely a bargaining tool, highlighting how striking can expand our political horizons.
Contributing writer Mitchell Abidor speaks to Akevot Institute founder Lior Yavne about digging through Israel’s state archives to find traces of anti-Palestinian violence.
In an On The Nose episode made in collaboration with Dissent magazine’s Know Your Enemy podcast, senior reporter Alex Kane, associate editor Mari Cohen, and editor-at-large Peter Beinart tease out the contradictions of Anti-Defamation League, which has recently come under fire from billionaire Elon Musk.
To mark 20 years since Edward Said’s death, we are sending you his 1989 open letter—first published in Jewish Currents in 2022—where he calls on American Jewish intellectuals to take up the mantle of fighting Israel’s oppression of Palestinians, with introductory pieces by Nubar Hovsepian and Peter Beinart.
From the Archive
Jewish Currents articles to revisit this week
