Jewish Currents

On Hakeem Jeffries, J Street, and the Massie amendment that would block $3.3 billion in aid to Israel, from this afternoon's @JewishCurrents news desk newsletter.

Great preview of the Michigan Senate primary from Alex at the @JewishCurrents news desk today.

The insurgent left is looking to extend its winning streak to Michigan with an Abdul El-Sayed victory. But it won’t be easy: They will have to overcome record AIPAC spending, lingering resentment over the Uncommitted movement, and electability fears. jewishcurrents.org/insurgent-demo…

"There was a peculiar relationship between Beirutis and the Israeli planes: If one dared, one might almost call it romantic. In this attitude was a strange commingling of repugnance and desire, alienation and belonging, intimacy and coldness." jewishcurrents.org/beirut-fragmen…

Jean Said Makdisi's account of Israel’s 1982 bombing campaign echoes through the decades. Read an excerpt from Beirut Fragments, from our forthcoming Fall issue: jewishcurrents.org/beirut-fragmen…

Read an excerpt from Jean Said Makdisi’s memoir Beirut Fragments—originally published in 1990, and reissued now in a new edition—from our Fall issue, out soon. jewishcurrents.org/beirut-fragmen…

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“It is strange how long it took us to accept what we were seeing. Watching those tapes hundreds & in some cases thousands of times, certain facts became apparent. The perimeter… had been drawn as if with scientific precision, & it was inviolate; nothing could cross it and live.”

For @JewishCurrents, I wrote about this week’s parshah and the pleasures of exile. jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-readin…

The Event @JewishCurrents Henry Beans odd, unsettling apocalyptic tale will make you think. jewishcurrents.org/the-event

In military training zones within nature reserves, the army “literally goes in with tanks and helicopters to prepare for going to invade Gaza,” Mazin Qumsiyeh explained. Diana Kruzman reports on the Israel's environmental cover for dispossession: jewishcurrents.org/the-ecology-of…

"They’re using environmental planning as a tool to support taking over more land," Alon Cohen-Lifshitz explained. Diana Kruzman reports on the nature reserves being used to take over Palestinian land: jewishcurrents.org/the-ecology-of…

Israel’s nature reserves in the West Bank use the language of conservation to restrict Palestinian life while facilitating settlement expansion. Diana Kruzman reports: jewishcurrents.org/the-ecology-of…

You can also listen to this story read by the author on our podcast today: jewishcurrents.org/the-event-2

A strange fire has consumed the land between the river and the sea. New fiction by Henry Bean. jewishcurrents.org/the-event

As the scholar Yusuf Sayed explains, “An attack on education is an attack on the ability of a society, a community, or a nation to reproduce itself." Charlotte Ritz-Jack reports on the education crisis Israel has imposed upon the West Bank: jewishcurrents.org/the-war-on-pal…

West Bank school closures have had ripple effects throughout the entirety of Palestinian society and its economy. By targeting education, Israel has struck the heart of Palestinian life. Charlotte Ritz-Jack reports: jewishcurrents.org/the-war-on-pal…

“We cover our faces with masks, then cover them again, put on makeup, then make them up again, maybe only exaggerating the resemblance to, only accentuating the imperfections of, the hidden face.” jewishcurrents.org/claude-cahuns-…

Schools across the West Bank have slashed instruction as Israel withholds billions in Palestinian tax revenues. Charlotte Ritz-Jack reports: jewishcurrents.org/the-war-on-pal…

Early 20th-century artist Claude Cahun left a legacy of aesthetic and political autonomy in the face of fascism. Tausif Noor's introduction of Cahun's Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is now out from behind the paywall jewishcurrents.org/claude-cahuns-…