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When Settler Becomes Native – Examining the claim of Jewish indigeneity in the land of Israel

October 13, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

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How the US Media Misreads Naftali Bennett – Despite recent favorable coverage, the new Israeli prime minister is just as authoritarian and anti-Palestinian as his predecessor.

October 11, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

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Manchin and Sinema’s Dying Brand of Centrism – The Senate moderates may weaken Biden’s agenda, but they can’t stop the left’s takeover of the Democratic Party.

October 8, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

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Sanders Pushes Gaza Aid in Exchange for “Yes” Vote on Iron Dome Funds – The Senate’s most prominent Israel critic will join the rest of the Democratic caucus in voting for aid for the anti-missile system.

October 7, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

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“The AIDS Crisis is Still Beginning” – In Gregg Bordowitz’s decades of aesthetic experimentation, ritualized attention to the present is a route to the past and the future.

October 7, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

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What the Jewish Left Learned From Occupy – An oral history

October 5, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

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To The Reasoning Of Eternal Voices, To The Waves That Have Kept Me From Reaching You— – “The chaplain tracing a cross / of oil with his thumb on your forehead, and your eyes following / upward his hand, then holding, following, / holding.”

October 1, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

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When Prison Guards Refuse Vaccines – A dispatch from an incarcerated person in Pennsylvania on the risks unvaccinated guards pose to prisoners.

October 1, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

September 29, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

This review appears in our Fall 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. Discussed in this essay: The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, by Joshua Cohen. New York Review Books, 2021. 248 pages. IN 2018, the week after Philip Roth’s death, […]

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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore – In The Netanyahus, Joshua Cohen tries and fails to reanimate the canonical Jewish American novel.

September 29, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

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