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Donald Trump says American Jews ‘don’t love Israel enough’ and more should have voted for him

June 18, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Eternal Return

June 18, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

Discussed in this essay: Voices in the Evening, by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by D.M. Low. New Directions, 2021. 144 pages. Family and Borghesia, by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Beryl Stockman. NYRB Classics, 2021. 128 pages. THERE IS PERHAPS no greater archivist of the family lexicon than the Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg. As she recounts in […]

7 events that celebrate Juneteenth through a Jewish lens

June 17, 2021Mark Hershlag

This article originally appeared on Kveller. This Saturday, June 19, marks the first time that Juneteenth will be observed as a federal holiday. The date — a portmanteau of the words “June” and “nineteenth” — marks the day in 1865 in which enslaved people in Texas were informed of the Emancipation Proclamation, and thus their […]

Jewish groups in the US and South Africa among recipients of MacKenzie Scott’s latest $2.74B in grants

June 15, 2021Mark Hershlag

Jewish groups in the US and South Africa among recipients of MacKenzie Scott’s latest $2.74B in grants – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Flu, 1918

June 14, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

This essay appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. Rose Riegelhaupt (1906–1984) grew up in the Jewish community of Poughkeepsie, New York. She wrote this memoir, which was recently discovered in an old box of her papers, sometime in the late 1970s. IT WAS THE YEAR 1918. It was a year […]

Letters to the Editor: Antisemitism Uptick and Organizing Jews

June 11, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

The following letters were received regarding web content published in May, including the article “A Closer Look at the ‘Uptick’ in Antisemitism,” which analyzed antisemitism statistics provided by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and the audio conversation “Organizing Jews and How to Talk to Your Family,“ in which members of Jewish Currents staff debated the merits […]

What Does “From the River to the Sea” Really Mean?

June 11, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

This piece originally appeared in yesterday’s email newsletter, to which you can subscribe here. IN RECENT WEEKS, as Palestinians rose up in their homeland, in the wider Middle East, and around the world, you probably heard the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” In cities across the globe, protesters responded to […]

After Jewish groups are left out of Blinken’s Israel briefing, the White House promises to hire a Jewish liaison

June 11, 2021Mark Hershlag

WASHINGTON (JTA) — When the veteran Jewish leaders logged onto a call to hear from the secretary of state about his trip to Israel, many were surprised by the guest list. While many of the groups typically present on such calls were represented, so was an official from the Holocaust museum here. What, they thought, […]

In Brooklyn, it’s a loud, wide-open race to succeed a tainted Jewish city councilman

June 10, 2021Mark Hershlag

(JTA) — It was only about 20 minutes into the virtual debate when the moderators had to mute two of the candidates for New York City Council. Amber Adler, an Orthodox Jewish activist and mother of two, had just told the other candidates about an attempted brick-throwing attack that she and her family had experienced […]

Rediscovering a Pathbreaking Queer Jewish Writer

June 10, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

For nearly two years in the mid-1920s, at a site on Greenwich Village’s MacDougal Street that is now a pizza joint favored by NYU students, Eve’s Hangout once stood. There, as Julie Scelfo writes in The Women Who Made New York, patrons “staked out a space for sexual free-thinking.” The eponymous proprietor had arrived in […]