As climate change-induced flooding and wildfires wreak havoc across the globe, and the Delta variant brings us into another perilous phase of the pandemic, the Jewish Currents staff is thinking about political depression—and how to cope with it. What does it mean to bring political feelings into therapy? Editor-in-chief Arielle Angel, publisher Jacob Plitman, culture […]
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Biden names Marc Stanley, prominent Texas Jewish Democrat, as envoy to Argentina – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, Ohio’s heavily Democratic 11th Congressional District, which includes much of metropolitan Cleveland and Akron, held a special primary election to determine the likely successor to retiring Rep. Marcia Fudge. The more centrist, establishment-backed candidate, Cuyahoga County Council Member Shontel Brown, defeated former State Senator Nina Turner—a champion of Medicare For All, a critic […]
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Israel to name Michael Herzog, the president’s brother and a longtime adviser to peace negotiators, as US ambassador – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Biden chooses Obama alum Chanan Weissman as White House liaison to the Jewish community – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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In upset, pro-Israel backed candidate wins key Cleveland area Democratic primary – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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(JTA) — Over the last year, Jewish college students took it upon themselves to combat antisemitism at their schools. Now, two major Jewish organizations are working together to play a stronger role in fighting antisemitism on campus. Some of the student activists documented incidences of antisemitism at colleges nationwide, often submitted anonymously, while others have […]
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Trump mandated some settlement products labeled as being from Israel. Some GOP senators want it to become law. – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
Continue ReadingI’m often skeptical of how etymologies appear in poems. All the ways of knowing and being with language not privileged in official historical records—vernaculars, slangs, the riffs and revisions intimacies encourage—are cast aside as the poet unveils an etymology with the self-satisfied flourish of exposing a latent Truth. But when I encountered Maya C. Popa’s […]
Continue ReadingAdam Serwer, a staff writer at The Atlantic, is one of the most astute observers of the tide of nativism and hatred that powered Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency. (He’s also a fellow product of Temple Sinai in Northwest Washington, DC, which my parents still attend, and a mensch.) His essays dismantle the argument that economic anxiety […]
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