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Harry Rosenfeld, key editor in exposing Watergate, dies at 91

July 20, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Hazon-Pearlstone merger positions Baltimore as the new epicenter of Jewish sustainability work

July 16, 2021Mark Hershlag

(Baltimore Jewish Times via JTA) — With the pending merger of Hazon and the Pearlstone Retreat Center, Baltimore is poised to become a national leader in the Jewish outdoor food, farming and environmental education movement. Pearlstone, a Jewish retreat center and outdoor education site in the Baltimore suburb of Reisterstown funded by the local federation, […]

‘Why can’t I be the first?’ Orthodox baseball prospect Jacob Steinmetz on the history he hopes to make

July 16, 2021Mark Hershlag

(JTA) — If all goes well for Jacob Steinmetz, he could run into a kosher food problem in the near future. Steinmetz, a 17-year-old pitcher from suburban New York with a blazing fastball, made history on Monday as the first Orthodox Jewish baseball player to be drafted by a major league team. The Arizona Diamondbacks […]

It’s Time to Name Anti-Palestinian Bigotry

July 16, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

IN JUNE, three Republicans in the House of Representatives—Michael Waltz, Jim Banks and Claudia Tenney—introduced a resolution censuring Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Presley, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for, among other things, “inciting anti-Semitic attacks across the United States.” House Democrats accused their colleagues of Jew-hatred as well, just less explicitly. Rep. Ted Deutch did not […]

Jews with Money

July 15, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

Professor and literary critic Josh Lambert serves as a judge for two major prizes for American Jewish literature, meaning he reads as many new American novels by and about Jews as possible each year. In this annual column for Jewish Currents, he reflects on some of the previous year’s most compelling works of fiction that […]

Republicans are trying to brand Mark Zuckerberg as ‘Zuckerbucks.’ Antisemitism watchdogs aren’t happy.

July 14, 2021Mark Hershlag

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Republicans and others are calling Mark Zuckerberg “Zuckerbucks.” The Anti-Defamation League wants that to stop, claiming the term suggests that “rich Jews are controlling levers of power.” The Zuckerbucks term has been circulating since last year, when the Facebook founder and his wife, Priscilla Chan, steered $400 million through the nonpartisan Center […]

Listen: Couples Therapy

July 13, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

The recent Jewish Currents staff roundtable on “intermarriage,” “Jewish continuity,” and the fraught institutional discourse on these topics occasioned a wide variety of responses, including the question: How might the conversation look different if it included non-Jewish partners of Jews? So we decided to find out! In the second episode of our new podcast, On […]

Baseball phenom Jacob Steinmetz becomes first known Orthodox player drafted into the MLB

July 12, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Sick Day

July 12, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

Translated from the Hebrew by Yaron Kaver This short story appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. LATE LAST NIGHT, a bird ate Mom’s pansies. I was sitting on the sweltering radiator by the window, trying to count fifty passing cabs. Maybe I’d see Marco’s car, back from his trip. Sometimes […]

Biden taps Eric Garcetti to be envoy to India

July 10, 2021Mark Hershlag

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