In uptown Manhattan last night, we watched the NYPD facilitate a reckless dash by ICE vehicles that endangered protesters. jewishcurrents.org/as-city-poli...

"The pertinent question is less whether an opposition victory on October 27th will transform Israel’s approach to the millions of Palestinians under its rule than whether it will slow the gathering tide of international pressure Israel faces."

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"The dramatic terms in which American Jews are framing the coming election sidestep the fact that a substantive change in policy toward Palestinians is not on Israeli voters’ menus this October."

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US Jews have long confronted Netanyahu’s extremism as an aberration to evade a deeper reckoning over Israel. What will happen if he goes? Read maricohen.bsky.social's analysis of the American Jewish rhetoric surrounding the coming Israeli election:

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Join us on Sunday night at Littlefield for the JC Live afterparty! Featuring live music by Avery Friedman and a DJ set by Mansaf Mama.

Space is limited and we anticipate this event will sell out. Get your tickets (free for members!) at jewishcurrents.org/live.

On this episode of On the Nose, scholars Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin discuss their recent investigation into what PEN America got wrong in its article about bias against Jewish and Israeli writers. jewishcurrents.org/fact-versus-...

'Was this fear of "the danger" meant to distract them from the pain eating at their souls?'

Read the short story This is My Father by Sami Michael from A People's Literature in Palestine/Israel (Hana Morgenstern) in Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social 

For the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter today, I wrote about the weird and creepy "Talmud" discourse on Twitter last week, with help from @benlorber8.bsky.social.

The numbers that tell the story of the past three years of horror in Gaza, and beyond.
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"If I were writing fiction, I would be accused of melodrama and inconceivable exaggeration—but grief does not ask craft for permission.”

Abdullah Hany Daher writes from Gaza, up now: jewishcurrents.org/a-tree-sever...

As the Jewish novelist Temim Fruchter put it, “These institutions are feeding the narrative that if people are angry that Israel is exacting mass collective punishment, they must hate Jews and Jewish literature.” jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

turns out that everything in PEN’s “report” on anti-semitism was a gross distortion or a lie. Thank you @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for this investigation

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It's the biggest event in Jewish Currents history, and we need your help to pull it off. Sign up to volunteer for JC Live on October 11th. You'll receive lunch, a stipend, and free admission. airtable.com/appFPtl1ELsY...

As the Jewish novelist Temim Fruchter put it, “These institutions are feeding the narrative that if people are angry that Israel is exacting mass collective punishment, they must hate Jews and Jewish literature.” jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

Progressive Democrat Will Lawrence wanted J Street’s endorsement during the tough primary this spring. He doesn’t anymore. jewishcurrents.org/in-michigan-...

When Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin tracked publishing deals since 2000, they found—rather than a decline in Jewish literature—that 2025 was the third-best year of the 21st century for book deals that publicly signaled Jewish or Israeli content. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...