Nov 23 2022

“The Jews” (53:00)

Ari Brostoff, Rebecca Pierce, Jasmine Sanders, and Sam Adler-Bell discuss Dave Chapelle's controversial Saturday Night Live monologue.

Nov 8 2022

Victory for Netanyahu’s Far-Right Alliance (26:34)

Alex Kane speaks with Peter Beinart, Joshua Leifer, and Elisheva Goldberg about Netanyahu’s likely return to power and the rise of the far-right Religious Zionism coalition.

Oct 20 2022

Ye (35:43)

Rebecca Pierce, Adam Serwer, and Arielle Angel discuss Kanye West’s recent antisemitic comments.

Oct 13 2022

Gaza Under Blockade (55:23)

Alex Kane speaks with Miriam Marmur and an anonymous writer about Israel’s blockade and bombardment of Gaza.

Sep 29 2022

Yeshiva Education (38:15)

After a recent New York Times investigation into Hasidic yeshivas, Joshua Leifer speaks with Naftuli Moster and Frieda Vizel about divergent strategies for change in the Hasidic world and what’s at stake in the fight over secular education.

Sep 15 2022

Mom Save America (33:37)

Arielle Angel interviews her mother, Jeri Cohen, about getting back into the reproductive justice struggle at 69.

Aug 25 2022

Documenting the Struggle (41:51)

Joshua Leifer speaks with Oren Ziv, co-founder of the photojournalist collective Activestills, about chronicling the violence of apartheid.

Aug 11 2022

The Scream Clarifies an Elsewhere (01:03:07)

To celebrate the release of Culture Editor Claire Schwartz’s debut poetry collection, Civil Service, she discusses the social meanings of poetry with Managing Editor Nathan Goldman and Graywolf Press editor Chantz Erolin.

Jul 28 2022

The Trouble with Germany, Part 1 (01:06:59)

Arielle Angel speaks with Emily Dische-Becker and Michael Sappir about the bizarre and worrisome ways that “memory culture” plays out in Germany among Jews, Palestinians, and Germans, as well as the recent attacks on Dische-Becker in the German press.

Jul 14 2022

¡Inquilinos Unidos, Jamás Serán Vencidos! (51:29)

Recording from a convention of the Autonomous Tenants Union Network, Ari Brostoff speaks with organizers Kenia Alcocer, Danya Martinez-Spider, and Claire Spiehler about the tenant movement across the country.

Jun 30 2022

The Mapping Project (53:25)

Jewish Currents staff discuss the controversy that arose after Boston activists published a map of Massachusetts institutions they deemed complicit in Zionism and US imperialism.

Jun 16 2022

The Age of No Revolutions (49:08)

David Klion speaks with history podcaster Mike Duncan about why the left’s discontent with the status quo hasn’t led to a sustained uprising.

May 26 2022

The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh (51:36)

Dylan Saba, Dana El Kurd, and Fadi Quran discuss Israeli obfuscation and strategies of resistance in the wake of a journalist’s murder

May 5 2022

Campus Wars (54:10)

Jewish Currents staff discuss the latest flashpoints in campus conflict over Israel/Palestine

Apr 20 2022

A Surge of Violence in Israel/Palestine (36:27)

Peter Beinart, Dana El Kurd, and Daniel Seidemann discuss the recent increase in fatal attacks in Israel/Palestine.

Apr 1 2022

Volodymyr Zelensky and Post-Soviet Jewishness (56:15)

David Klion, Julia Alekseyeva, Linda Kinstler, and Helen Betya Rubinstein discuss the meaning of the Ukrainian president’s background.

Mar 17 2022

The Assault on Trans and Reproductive Rights (58:16)

Senior Editor Ari M. Brostoff, scholar Jules Gill-Peterson, journalist Meaghan Winter, and reproductive justice advocate Laurie Bertram Roberts discuss the recent wave of executive and legislative attacks on trans people and abortion rights.

Mar 3 2022

I Want to Believe (54:54)

Upon the release of Senior Editor Ari M. Brostoff’s debut essay collection, Missing Time, they discuss the political potential of The X-Files with Editor-in-Chief Arielle Angel and Managing Editor Nathan Goldman.

Feb 17 2022

The Black–Jewish Relations Industrial Complex (59:54)

In light of recent flashpoints in so-called Black–Jewish relations, Contributing Writer Rebecca Pierce joins artists and activists Anthony Russell, Reuben Telushkin, and Shoshana Brown in discussing the continued prevalence of anti-Black racism in the American Jewish community and the ongoing exclusion of Black Jews.

Feb 3 2022

Whose West Side Story? (01:02:32)

Editor-in-chief Arielle Angel spoke with scholars Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Brian E. Herrera, and Daniel Pollack-Pelzner about the parallel resonances of West Side Story in Jewish and Latinx communities, and the tensions that emerge over questions of power and control.