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We're saddened to hear about the passing of poet and translator Pierre Joris. We're revisiting this conversation Pierre had with Fanny Howe, as part of our folio marking the centenary of the birth of Paul Celan. jewishcurrents.org/celans-ferry...

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NYC: we'll see you at our issue launch this Thursday in Brooklyn! We'll have issues and merch for sale, music by Slavic Soul Party, tacos—and hopefully you. RSVP here: secure.jewishcurrents.org/eventReg.jsp...

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glad to have finally gotten to read this Arthur Asseraf essay on the history of Algerian decolonization and how we can understand its relation to decolonizing Palestine

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great report by Alex Kanethat shows how the crisis in holocaust & genocide studies is also playing out in the youth education arena. another example of how an educational institution relying on pro israel donors/support now finds its hands tied jewishcurrents.org/a-progressiv...

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Fremragende artikel, der med nuancer og perspektiver giver håb om et frit Palæstina. @arthurasseraf.bsky.social

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"Despite concerns, Facing History is now considering formalizing a policy of silence. . . .These decisions come amid a wide-ranging attack on progressive education across the US, especially on teachers who voice support for Palestinians." -- from indepth article in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social ⬇️

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NYC: we'll see you at our issue launch this Thursday in Brooklyn! We'll have issues and merch for sale, music by Slavic Soul Party, tacos—and hopefully you. RSVP here: secure.jewishcurrents.org/eventReg.jsp...

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The progressive education nonprofit Facing History & Ourselves, which is known for its model lessons on genocide, has angered staff and disappointed teachers with its refusal to provide resources about Gaza. jewishcurrents.org/a-progressiv...

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On the new episode of our podcast, On the Nose, @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social speaks with @maricohen.bsky.social, Noah Kulwin, and @sidhubaba.bsky.social about the Oscar-nominated film The Brutalist.

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Well said.

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I had the honour to talk with @jewishcurrents.bsky.social about the foundation of the International Network of Genocide Studies, 20 years ago in Berlin. Quite a trip down memory lane. Many of the divergent positions then are still prevalant jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide...

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For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I reviewed antisemitism reports by Columbia, Penn, UCLA + the University of Washington--reports that could classify as antisemitic the research done by those university's own scholars of Israel-Palestine jewishcurrents.org/the-perils-o...

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All of my original pages for mine and Chris Blackwell’s comic for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, up online at jewishcurrents.org/hey-chubbs.

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I first saw The Klezmer Project, a beautiful film that plays with fiction, history, text & image, urging us to consider culture beyond blood and nation, at Berlinale 2023. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social let me write about it. Thank you, Nathan & Nora, for supporting and editing this labor of years.

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The @jewishcurrents.bsky.social & @hyperallergic.com collaboration on censored artworks is out in print. Honored to share a byline with @valentinadl.bsky.social 👏

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As Germans cast their vote today, it's a good time to read this article from @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. "The current state of German memory culture appears to us as a double-sided coin of farce and tragedy." jewishcurrents.org/bad-memory-2

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Really enjoyed this conversation and it re-opened the film for me in many ways.

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A new comic by Solomon Brager tells the story of a special relationship between writer Christopher Blackwell and Chubbs, a raven came to visit the window of his prison cell jewishcurrents.org/hey-chubbs

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"Rather than serve to stabilize Jewish identity, a pure transmission of the past, klezmer here becomes a shared project whose history and future entwine Jewish and Romani life together." Sanders Isaac Bernstein on The Klezmer Project:

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On the new episode of our podcast, On the Nose, @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social speaks with @maricohen.bsky.social, Noah Kulwin, and @sidhubaba.bsky.social about the Oscar-nominated film The Brutalist.

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New York JC community: join us for our winter issue launch on Thursday, February 27th at Littlefield in Brooklyn! We'll have issues and merch, tacos if you get hungry, music by Slavic Soul Party, and most importantly: all of you. See you there.

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The film The Klezmer Project, writes Sanders Isaac Bernstein, suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish past. Now online from our Fall/Winter 2024 issue:

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By relying on pro-Israel organizations’ analysis of antisemitism—rather than recruiting the scholars on their own campuses—university antisemitism task forces are enabling the assault on academic freedom, @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes: jewishcurrents.org/the-perils-o...

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"Creation Lake's nihilism may reflect our political moment, in which a better future often seems out of reach, but it cedes the sense of possibility that animates Kushner’s other novels, proving far too airless to support the flicker of a counterreality."

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"In its detachment, Creation Lake ultimately gives us cynicism as style, a world in which not only is nothing sacred, but everyone is deserving of ridicule." Nora Caplan-Bricker on Rachel Kushner's newest novel:

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"The ceasefire has given us some peace, but it has not restored what we lost." Three Palestinians from northern Gaza—Ahmad Abu Yahia, Hamza Salha, and Aisha—reflect on returning to their devastated homes. jewishcurrents.org/ceasefire-di...

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Now online from the Fall/Winter 2024 issue: Executive editor Nora Capaln-Bricker argues that Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake cedes the sense of possibility that animates her earlier novels.

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Finally saw my new comic with Chris Blackwell of Look 2 Justice in print, in the new issue of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, available at McNally Jackson and online.

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Join us on Thursday evening to discuss how Jewish Reform has shaped contemporary Judaism, the movement’s complicated relationships with assimilation and whiteness, and the original Reform vision of Judaism beyond nationalism. Hope to see you there! jewishcurrents.org/event/judais...

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As Israeli violence rises across the occupied West Bank, settlers are capitalizing on it by establishing dozens of new pastoral outposts, expelling Palestinian herders, and hastening land seizures in the Jordan Valley. @daliahatuqa.bsky.social reports jewishcurrents.org/pastoral-set...

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Good read on disagreements in the Reconstructionist Jewish rabbinical school regarding Israel, Palestine, Zionism. Students are mostly non- or anti-Zionist, while the school & its funders are pro ... Yet they need students. jewishcurrents.org/a-reconstruc...

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Interesting article on clashes over Zionism among rabbinical students at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. jewishcurrents.org/a-reconstruc...

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In mg latest article for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I look at the current struggles inside of the Reconstitutionist movement between its established Zionist position and the anti-Zionism of its emerging young rabbis: a microcosm of the larger clash in Jewish life jewishcurrents.org/a-reconstruc...

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In a deep dive on the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, @shaneburley.bsky.social shows how clashes between the liberal Zionist school and its heavily anti-Zionist student body encapsulate a broader fight over the Jewish future.

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February 8th: Join Ta-Nehisi Coates and @peterbeinart.bsky.social for a conversation on reckoning with Jewish supremacy and white supremacy. Attend in-person in Brooklyn, or get a virtual ticket and watch online. Tickets here: jewishcurrents.org/event/reckon...

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Now online from our winter issue: Historian Arthur Asseraf argues that "understanding Algeria’s past—beyond a slogan or an analogy—is essential to countering attacks on decolonization today." jewishcurrents.org/the-algeria-...

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Essential reading from @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for anyone interested in genocide studies and the atrocities in Gaza. Can the research- and advocacy field survive the current crisis?

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You too can be a Globalist! Get your very own Globalist (or Illuminati, or Elders of Zion) mug when you join Jewish Currents' sustaining membership program. jewishcurrents.org/membership

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NEW: My longform report on the field of genocide studies is now unpaywalled. What happens when institutions that grew out of the study of the Holocaust—where Israel is often understood as the survivors' state—must grapple with Israel committing genocide? jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide...

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Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza? https://jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide-studies-survive-a-genocide-in-gaza #Gaza

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“We said, ‘Your model assumes the world system is working, and those who commit genocide are an aberration of the system,’” he recalled. “But what if this world system is itself the root cause of genocide?” jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide...

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“What’s the point of this field? Is it, in fact, enabling the mass killing of Palestinians in the name of self-defense and genocide prevention? If that’s the case, then the field is dead—not only incoherent, but complicit in mass killing.” Important, eye-opening piece

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Got your tickets yet? On January 29th at @ethicalnyc.bsky.social, Jewish Currents editor-at-large @peterbeinart.bsky.social will launch his new book in conversation with MSNBC journalist @ayman.msnbc.com. Register today—in-person and online options available: https://jewishcurrents.org/event/book-l…

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Good episode of On The Nose from @jewishcurrents.bsky.social with Yousef Munayyer and @zaha-hassan.bsky.social, sadly but imo correctly skeptical that the ceasefire deal will make it to its 2nd, let alone 3rd phase pca.st/podcast/695b...

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Now out from behind the paywall: @maricohen.bsky.social goes long on the crisis facing the field of genocide studies as institutions that emerged from the study of the Holocaust grapple with—or ignore—genocide in Gaza. jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide...

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Portrait of ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...

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"Portrait of ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt," by @elivalley.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...

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