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Biden taps Eric Garcetti to be envoy to India

July 10, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Birth Certificate

July 9, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

Translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon(English follows the Arabic, below.) Some violences are regenerative: a sprout pressing up through the dirt, a colonized people overthrowing a colonizing regime, farmers burning the straw from fields so plants might grow again. Other violences—prisons, detention centers, and other contrivances of human cruelty—constrict futures. One of global capitalism’s […]

The Yiddish Tote Rankling Glasgow Police

July 9, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

I’ve been following di rozeve pave (Yiddish for Pink Peacock), a queer, Yiddish, anarchist space in the Govanhill neighborhood in Glasgow, Scotland, with fascination and delight since they opened their social media accounts in the summer of 2019. As they’ve been preparing to open their pay-what-you-can café, they’ve also built a vibrant online community where […]

Rep. Lauren Boebert says Biden’s COVID vaccine staff are ‘Needle Nazis’

July 8, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Arizona passes long-delayed Holocaust education bill after sidelining debate over antisemitism definitions

July 6, 2021Mark Hershlag

(Jewish News of Greater Phoenix via JTA) — When Michael Beller set out three years ago to get a law passed in Arizona requiring Holocaust education in public schools, the response he got was clear. “People told me this would never happen. They were like, ‘Not now, not ever. It will never happen in Arizona.’ […]

Material Conditions

July 6, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

This artist feature appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. IN THE BOTTOM LINE, textile artist Rachel Breen attached thin strips of blue and gray cloth to a wall, staggered as if describing to a curve on a graph, the movement of the line evoking a stock market chart. Breen says […]

Roasting in a Western Washington Prison

July 2, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

It’s almost midnight. I continue to toss and turn on my thin prison pad of a bed, exhausted from smoldering for days in extreme heat with no reprieve. My little 12-inch fan is working overtime to bring relief. Many other prisoners’ fans have already burnt out; I pray mine doesn’t. The tier is quiet. There’s […]

Biden kneels before Orthodox adviser to Israel’s president after learning she has 12 children

July 2, 2021Mark Hershlag

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These are the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse

July 1, 2021Mark Hershlag

This article will be updated as more names are identified by authorities in Florida. (JTA) — The Champlain Towers South building collapse is a national tragedy, one that has claimed nearly 20 lives so far and left over 140 still missing in the rubble as of Thursday. Among other groups, it struck a unique nexus […]

The Christian Zionist Group Shaping Holocaust Education in Florida

July 1, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

LAST OCTOBER, the expert panel appointed to write Florida’s Holocaust education standards—a group composed of scholars and Jewish communal leaders—received feedback on a draft of the standards from the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) provided by the right-wing Christian Zionist organization Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN). The group had inserted lessons that defined Jewishness […]