Progressive Lawmakers Demand Stop to Israeli “War Crime” in Masafer Yatta – In a letter to the Secretary of State, 15 House Democrats urged the administration to intervene against the expulsion of Palestinians from West Bank villages. May 31, 2022David Rutman, Meghan Froy Continue Reading
Die Schreibblockade: Selections – “I have returned to the city of my dead. / It is the living who live there. I do not know them.” May 27, 2022David Rutman, Meghan Froy Continue Reading
What the Popular History of the Soviet Jewry Movement Leaves Out – An interview with Tova Benjamin, the curator of the Jewish Currents Soviet Issue’s centerpiece section. May 26, 2022David Rutman, Meghan Froy Continue Reading
The Best Place in the World for Soviet Jews – The Soviet Jewry Movement exposed a rift between Israel and the US that persists to this day. May 26, 2022David Rutman, Meghan Froy Continue Reading
“Israel Knows It Will Have Impunity” – Two weeks after Shireen Abu Akleh was killed—by Israeli soldiers, according to eyewitnesses—no independent body is investigating her death. May 24, 2022David Rutman, Meghan Froy Continue Reading
The Ambivalent Émigrés – Antisemitism was a fact of life for Soviet Jews, but it did not top their list of reasons to leave. May 23, 2022David Rutman, Meghan Froy Continue Reading
Shared Grief Is Not Enough – After the Buffalo massacre, Jewish institutions must confront their own complicity with white supremacy. May 19, 2022David Rutman, Meghan Froy Continue Reading
Books of Sarah – In 2021, Jewish fiction grappled, in registers both tragic and comic, with questions of gender, power, and sexual politics. May 18, 2022David Rutman, Meghan Froy Continue Reading
The Voice of a Generation, Silenced – Three Palestinian writers remember the legendary journalist Shireen Abu Akleh May 17, 2022David Rutman, Meghan Froy Continue Reading
from Flight and Metamorphosis – “A stranger always has / his homeland in his arms” May 13, 2022David Rutman, Meghan Froy Continue Reading
