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Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition
Exodus: Tetzaveh
What are sacred objects for?
Pratima Gopalakrishnan August 4, 2020
Analysis
Cori Bush’s Message From the Grassroots
Bush’s victory in a St. Louis congressional primary escalates an insurgency from the Democratic Party’s left wing.
Joshua Leifer August 5, 2020
Poetry
Anniversary
“I keep quiet // but the wind still stumbles through the psalm // we wrote together.”
Carina del Valle Schorske August 7, 2020
Report
Call of Duty
An app called Act.IL has adapted IDF communications strategy into a massive multiplayer online game.
Daniel Lark August 10, 2020
Conversation
A Pickle-Shaped Void
The Jewish Currents editorial staff falls into a vat of brine.
The Editors August 11, 2020
Comic
Bayla’s Affair
Looking for love in all the wrong places.
Hinda Avery August 13, 2020
Essay
The Sound of Messianic Time
Yo La Tengo’s new drone album, released into the formlessness of quarantine, evokes the unfulfilled waiting of Jewish messianism.
Nathan Goldman August 14, 2020
Analysis
Compassionate Politics Over Compassionate Gestures
Any sustainable peace between Israel and its immediate neighbors will still require ending the occupation and resolving the Palestinian refugee issue.
Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud August 18, 2020
Analysis
Israel-Advocacy Groups Urge Facebook to Label Criticism of Israel as Hate Speech
Pressuring social media platforms to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism is the latest strategy to silence critics of Israel.
Lara Friedman August 19, 2020
Report
California Compromises on Ethnic Studies
Following pressure from Israel-advocacy groups regarding a model ethnic studies curriculum, the state plans to retain some material on Arab Americans while excising references to Palestine.
Gabi Kirk August 21, 2020
