IsraAID provides aid to Gaza. But some experts criticize the group due to its lack of transparency and lack of involvement in advocacy for Palestinians. @alexbkane.bsky.social reports on who IsraAID is--and why they've become a favorite of US pro-Israel groups.

A prominent Jewish group gave $1 million to an Israeli group for aid in Gaza. One philanthropy expert said the grant reflects a “shift" in the Jewish community towards increased concern for Palestinians—without compromising existing political alignments.

NEW from me in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. A prominent Jewish group donated $1 million to IsraAID to address the crisis in Gaza. Why did they choose IsraAID--and what does it reflect about how IsraAID approaches humanitarian work? Here's my report: jewishcurrents.org/an-israeli-g...

Was glad to be able to have a frank discussion of Charlie Kirk with my @jewishcurrents.bsky.social colleagues, and to talk about this fantasy of "left-wing violence" that the right (along with some fringe parts of the left) has an interest in pretending is real

On the latest episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel, @davidklion.bsky.social, @benlorber8.bsky.social, and Maya Rosen discuss reactions to Charlie Kirk’s assassination across the political spectrum, as well as the outsized response in Israel. jewishcurrents.org/charlie-kirk...

"A golem is for vengeance. A golem is a wish, that you could do something when you can’t. And then you regret it after, that your justice was so hard: both hard to get, and hard to give." Read "What You Deserve," a short story by @lytagold.bsky.social:

"'What if I rolled a golem out of mud,' she murmured, as if I wasn’t there." A short story by @lytagold.bsky.social:

“Be careful what you wish for, is the moral of the story, except when the moral is something more like: unless, what if, if only.” Short fiction by @lytagold.bsky.social, now online from our Summer issue.

To understand a phrase is to be able to replicate and reinterpret it, so to understand the meaning of “never again” is to immediately call to mind other instances of genocidal violence—Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, and, inevitably, Gaza. Read Sean Pergola's essay:

The LA Holocaust Museum learned that it couldn't say "Never Again" without the language inevitably making reference to Gaza. So it chose not to say "Never Again" at all. Read Sean Pergola's essay on genocide and the structure of language: jewishcurrents.org/never-again-...

In a new podcast episode, editor-at-large @peterbeinart.bsky.social interviews the philosopher, activist, author, and educator Angela Davis, discussing how Jews shaped Davis’s formative years and exploring why Palestine is central to the global left. Listen here: jewishcurrents.org/what-a-lifet...

“Memory is essential, and it comes with a great deal of responsibility: What memories do we invoke, and how do we invoke them toward the end of finding the love between us?”

A conversation about Black–Palestinian interconnectedness and the legacy of June Jordan with Marina Magloire, George Abraham, Zaina Alsous, Aurielle Marie, and aja monet

"I understood then that a house burns twice—once in the flames, and again in the eyes of the one who loved it."

this was devastating, but very, very good. recommend giving it a read 💜

"In Gaza, the landscape changes faster than memory can keep up ... places once familiar become unrecognizable overnight; streets you walked yesterday may not be there tomorrow." A new essay by Abdullah Hany Daher jewishcurrents.org/a-map-to-a-p...

On this mailbag episode of On the Nose, the JC staff discuss: - social reproduction without Zionism - our attachment to a print magazine - approaches to comparing genocides - PJ Library - and de-exceptionalizing Zionism within a settler colonial framework jewishcurrents.org/mailbag-2

"Where Boulos refuses the illusory comfort of a salvific authority, she offers in its place an affirmation of what we make together, consecrating, again and again, the promise of human connection." Aria Aber introduces photographs by Myriam Boulos

"For Boulos, the revolutionary moment instigated a way of seeing, dilating the vivid contradictions that animate social worlds in the midst of radical transformation." Aria Aber introduces photographs by Myriam Boulos

Myriam Boulos’s photographs probe the porous boundaries between everyday life and revolutionary rupture. Introduced by Aria Aber. Originally published in our summer issue, now out from behind the paywall.

Summer 2025 RY bios look pretty good 😌 Wanna see yours in our next issue? Send 30 words or fewer, plus location and preferred contact info, to [email protected] 💌

This is a sober and required read, offering its burning and conscientious logic like lava flowing from a volcano.

A very powerful piece by @simonerzim.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social . "Jewish communities should ask themselves “What would you have done to stop the annihilation of the Jews of Europe?” and should do just that for Palestinians now. You are either for genocide or against it."

Extraordinary piece from @simonerzim.bsky.social - searching, tough, honest and with all the receipts. Please share it with anyone you think is ready for a reckoning. The genocide is not only ongoing but accelerating and expanding, this is urgent.

Liberal Zionist discourse that Israel has, this time, gone “too far” is always a form of revelation that allows simultaneously for another concealment: the unspeakable violence already committed and ultimately, if in a slower form, they wish to see continue

Simone Zimmerman (den unga fd sionisten som följs i ”Israelism” och vänsterorganisatör) skriver i Jewish Currents om hur liberala sionister som nu, två år in, börjar visa sitt motstånd mot Israel behöver göra upp med att ha lagt grunden för folkmordet: jewishcurrents.org/rhetoric-wit...

This piece is a satisfying and good read from @simonerzim.bsky.social, though I personally want to express a fiery rage about this- particularly about T'ruah and Jstreet

Was honored to write this piece for Jewish Currents. I hope it reaches the people that need to read it most. jewishcurrents.org/rhetoric-wit...

this piece does something desperately needed: offers a meaningful path forward for liberal zionists beyond recent handwringing, while calling out (with receipts!) their complicity with the genocide until very recently. By @simonerzim.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/rhetoric-wit...

”In reading these unprecedented Jewish condemnations of Israeli actions, one gets the impression that something in Israel’s approach on the ground has changed dramatically in the past few months, not just in degree, but in kind. It has not.” jewishcurrents.org/rhetoric-wit...

Important essay by Simone Zimmerman. I'm not religious, so I won't repeat what the Rambam says about repentance, summarized here. But liberal Zionists who supported the war and now realize their mistake should commit to not making the same mistake again. For many, it was the second time after 9/11.

Powerful reading on teshuva and Gaza for this Elul season

Stay tuned for some great stuff about to get sent out in the newsletter. In the meantime check out this @jewishcurrents.bsky.social piece about the further integration of cop-forward antisemitism protection/security with the deportation state.

New Trump admin conditions for the Nonprofit Security Grants Program could create a bind for many liberal Jewish organizations around the country that have opposed the president's anti-immigrant crackdown and anti-DEI crusade. Read Emily Wilder's report: jewishcurrents.org/a-federal-se...

Important and powerful. Points to much-needed conversations within the Jewish diaspora world.

"All of this rhetoric betrays the clear hierarchy of the value of human life endemic to Zionism. Only the logic that Jewish death is unacceptable and Palestinian death is a tragic necessity can explain the way these leaders remained ensconced in a story about Jewish victimhood as Gaza burned."

YES OMG "...Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR in Los Angeles gave the benediction at the Democratic National Convention... They might have stepped out and pushed Democratic leadership... Instead, they lagged behind them, reserving their most forceful public words for campus activists..."

A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide, @simonerzim.bsky.social writes. In this piece, she explores what real teshuva would look like within the Jewish world.

Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen was killed by a settler on July 28th. Maya Rosen and Erez Bleicher eulogize their friend, who turned hospitality into a tool of sabotage against the ongoing Nakba, and chronicle settler and state attacks on the village since his murder.

In this episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel speaks with filmmaker Sarah Friedland and feminist scholar and activist Lynne Segal about aging through a feminist lens, on the occasion of the digital release of Friedland’s award-winning film FAMILIAR TOUCH. jewishcurrents.org/familiar-tou...

Under Trump, the Dept. of Health and Human Services has a new role, writes @alexbkane.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: investigating universities, cutting billions of dollars in funding to schools, and "decimating decades of research" to crack down on support for Palestinian rights.

apropos of everything, here is this excellent guide on how to give yourself an abortion from @jewishcurrents.bsky.social illustrated by @mattielubchansky.com jewishcurrents.org/how-to-give-...

"I once studied under a lamp. I read books. I dreamed of life. Now, the glow of my phone makes me flinch. A candle is a target. A match, a betrayal."

“What is at stake in Behn’s text, Brand clarifies, is not liberation, but the ‘proximate, incomplete freedom’ of emancipation, ‘which attributed a half-human-until-educated status to the enslaved.’”

"I once studied under a lamp. I read books. I dreamed of life. Now, the glow of my phone makes me flinch. A candle is a target. A match, a betrayal." Abdullah Hany Daher writes from Gaza. jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...

"I used to know time as a schedule, a plan, a goal. Now, time is only something to endure." jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...

On this episode of On the Nose, @peterbeinart.bsky.social spoke to @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social about her advocacy for Palestinian children amid intense backlash, the role faith has played in her decision to speak out & why more celebs haven’t followed suit. jewishcurrents.org/ms-rachel-st...

Just re-read this @jewishcurrents.bsky.social article from almost exactly a year ago and, well, it must be depressing to be this accurate jewishcurrents.org/florida-is-e...

A social worker at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital put up a small postcard at her desk bearing the words “Gaza Must Live.” Her superiors asked her to take it down. She refused, and on July 31st, Mount Sinai fired her. jewishcurrents.org/mount-sinai-...

We don’t ask questions anymore. The answers are relentless: Nowhere is safe, no one is whole. An essay by Palestinian writer from Gaza Abdullah Hany Daher