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 […]
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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
Continue ReadingThis 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingThis 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 […]
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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, […]
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(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 […]
Continue ReadingFor 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 […]
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12 Jewish Democrats say grouping of Israel and the US with Hamas and the Taliban gives terrorists cover, call on Ilhan Omar to clarify – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
Continue ReadingClick here to read the rest of the Paul Celan folio. Introduced and translated from the German by Carlie Hoffman(English follows the German, below) Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, a younger cousin of Paul Celan, was a Jewish, German-language poet and translator who died in a Nazi labor camp in 1942, at the age of 18. She left behind […]
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