Once Americans stopped seeing liberalism and Zionism as bedfellows, Abe Foxman's politics lost their cachet. But the former ADL head never reckoned with his own role in the ensuing Jewish communal failures. Read the reflection on Foxman by @maricohen.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/abe-foxman-m...

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I spoke to @joshnathankazis.bsky.social today for the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social newsletter about antisemitism, Zack Polanski and the growing divisions among British Jews over Israel and Zionism. jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/f...

On the ADL's antisemitism audit, in today's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter.

For the Jewish Currents news desk, Alex Kane wrote about a bill moving through the California legislature that would make it a crime punishable by six months in jail to hand out a leaflet within 100 feet of a synagogue entrance.

NEW FREE HELL! @typemediacenter.org fellow and @fspnwu.bsky.social 's @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum: How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved the way for authoritarianism.” Keep us free! www.patreon.com/posts/new-he...

I know the cycle has moved on to election stuff, but I’m going to post a thread of some of the more thoughtful commentary I’ve seen on UK antisemitism. 1/ my @bisa-bkk.bsky.social colleague @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social newsletter

A California bill would criminalize approaching a person within 100 feet of a synagogue to hand out a leaflet, hold a sign, or “engage in oral protest,” the latest attempt to crack down on protests hosting events that market land in Israeli settlements. jewishcurrents.org/synagogue-pr...

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In today's edition of the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter, a note on that poll from the other day on Jews and Zohran.

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On the new episode of On the Nose, Harriet Clark discusses her debut novel, The Hill, what comes after failure in radical movements, and the heroism of trying to keep families affected by incarceration together. jewishcurrents.org/the-hill

The liberal Zionist lobby faces the anti-Israel moment. jewishcurrents.org/a-liberal-zi...

As the Democratic base turns on Israel, J Street struggles to find its footing. jewishcurrents.org/a-liberal-zi...

Well worth a listen

Listen to the full podcast with Stefanie, Izz from the @adalahjustice.bsky.social and Arielle from @jewishcurrents.bsky.social at jewishcurrents.org/the-right-is...

NEW LIVE FREE HELL! at 10AM CDT and poodcast shortly after Tues., Shana Marshall discusses the @securityincontext.bsky.social piece, "A Violent Convergence" on militarization. Weds., @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum" www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...

Two heavily Jewish New York congressional districts are having two different Israel debates. In NY-10, Brad Lander is aligning with the left of the Democratic party. But in NY-12, where Jews are older and more tightly affiliated, no one has grabbed the left lane. jewishcurrents.org/rift-in-jewi...

@jewishcurrents.bsky.social you might be amused to know that San Francisco Public Library subscribes to your publication. I’m excited to read this pamphlet because part of my peoples are from Turkey and spoke Ladino, and did end up in New York

On the new episode of On the Nose, outgoing editor-in-chief Arielle Angel speaks with outgoing rabbi of Tzedek Chicago Brant Rosen about what has changed in the building of anti-Zionist institutions over the last decade. jewishcurrents.org/exit-interview

In a new interview, Middle East analyst Thanassis Cambanis says the possibility of a political settlement between Israel and Lebanon is undermined by Israel’s ongoing bombings and the exclusion of Hezbollah from negotiations. jewishcurrents.org/israel-and-l...

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I wrote about the obligation to rebuke and the Marxist critique of moralism. jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-read...

This @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay by Jon Danforth-Appell is fucking GREAT Huge recommendation

I grew up in a Conservative synagogue, and even though that experience was horrible and involved a lot of brainwashing, I felt as though I'd been punched in the stomach when I saw this news. I cannot believe the JTS is doing this, apparently against the wishes of some of its students.

Last fall, Debra Messing drew national attention for posting a meme on social media that called Zohran Mamdani, at the time a candidate for New York City mayor, an “America-hating jihadist.” jewishcurrents.org/isaac-herzog...

New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary will honor Israeli president Isaac Herzog and pro-Israel advocate Debra Messing at a commencement ceremony next month. jewishcurrents.org/isaac-herzog...

"The teacher taught the students the English phrase 'open the road,' which came in handy when three balaclava-clad soldiers appeared on the other side of the razor-wire fence." Maya Rosen reports from Umm al-Khair's fight for school access: jewishcurrents.org/no-school-in...

What the occupation “seeks is a generation that fails, a generation that cannot read, cannot write, and cannot communicate its cause to human rights institutions." Maya Rosen reports: jewishcurrents.org/no-school-in...

In a Palestinian village cut off from its schoolhouse, children ask for education. Maya Rosen reports: jewishcurrents.org/no-school-in...

In late 2025, Jewish Currents reached out to two dozen Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank—all of whom the magazine had previously interviewed—to ask them how their lives had changed in the past two years. These are their stories jewishcurrents.org/dispatches-f...

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism. jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

Wexner Foundation alumni, whose careers were supported by Epstein-linked money, are launching a fund for Epstein survivors. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social has the story: jewishcurrents.org/jewish-leade...

We're about to ship our Spring issue, featuring new writing from Tanvi Misra, Will Alden, Zaina Alsous, Jon Danforth-Appell, Tareq Baconi, and many more voices (cover by Alfredo Jaar). Get it in your mailbox (and save 50%) with code JCSPRING50: jewishcurrents.org/subscribe

The JNF is using a newly reinstated land registration processes, which is “the most serious land-related threat that Palestinians of East Jerusalem are facing," one expert warned. @Charritzjack reports: jewishcurrents.org/the-land-reg...

The goal of Israel's reinstated property registration "is to transfer as much land in East Jerusalem to state or Jewish ownership in order to prevent a viable solution to the conflict," one expert said. @Charritzjack reports on the JNF's new land grab tactic: jewishcurrents.org/the-land-reg...

Using a revived colonial-era legal process, the Jewish National Fund is quietly transferring long-inhabited Palestinian property into Israeli hands. @Charritzjack reports: jewishcurrents.org/the-land-reg...

"As director, I look at my staff—we have on staff a mother with a baby of five months. If they raid the office and arrest them, how I can help them?" jewishcurrents.org/how-israel-s...

Khaled Quzmar, former head of Defense for Children International-Palestine, discusses his organization’s decision to close after a five-year harassment campaign by the Israeli government. jewishcurrents.org/how-israel-s...

Deutsche Linke streiten über Antizionismus. Linke Jüd*innen in Nordamerika dagegen bezeichnen sich ganz selbstverständlich als Antizionist*innen. Das nd durfte eine Debatte von "On The Nose" (Podcast der tollen Zeitschrift @jewishcurrents.bsky.social übernehmen). www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199...

What We’re Reading the Third Week of April 2026: Pieces from @theatlantic.com @hyperallergic.com @lithub.com.web.brid.gy @jewishcurrents.bsky.social @thenation.com @jacobinmag.bsky.social @nautil.us @publicbooks.bsky.social and more! pghrev.com/what-were-re...

The two members of Congress who support an arms embargo on Israel may soon get more backing as leading Democratic primary contenders in races around the country adopt that position, @alexbkane.bsky.social reports. jewishcurrents.org/in-democrati...

Asylum once formed an antidote to a world where the sanctity of national borders is placed above that of human life. Then, over centuries of erosion and decades of attack, it was gutted. Read Tanvi Misra's essential new essay from our Spring 2026 issue jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

In our first live taping of On the Nose, we answered listener questions about what accountability looks like for US rabbinic leadership, how American Zionists will respond to Israel’s plummeting popularity, and more. jewishcurrents.org/mailbag-3-live

"Perhaps in writing I discover that a dead heart is not complete death, but a stage the survivors pass through to keep going." jewishcurrents.org/a-body-that-...

“There is a well-established track record of even the most fringe parts of the Israeli settler movement becoming not so fringe over a period of decades or even years," the scholar Natasha Roth-Rowland noted. She's right when it comes to Lebanon too. jewishcurrents.org/support-for-...

From the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk today, an important piece from Maya Rosen on how support for settlements in southern Lebanon is mainstream in Israel now. jewishcurrents.org/support-for-...

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"The grief that at first flowed with my tears now has calcified in my chest with no release. It is as if I have become another wall of Gaza, shattered, but still there." jewishcurrents.org/a-body-that-...

Member of Knesset Yitzhak Kroizer has said that “sovereignty and settlement are the keys for peace and security" in southern Lebanon. Maya Rosen on the settlement project gaining steam: jewishcurrents.org/support-for-...