The religious tenor of public mourning for RBG reveals a conflation of Jewishness with American liberalism, which forecloses the possibility of reckoning with either.
On the 30th anniversary of her groundbreaking book Standing Again at Sinai, feminist theologian Judith Plaskow discusses the choice to remain within a patriarchal religious framework.
Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris, who has always toed the AIPAC line on Israel/Palestine, is part of the campaign’s pitch that polarization can be undone.
An interview with the former child star about her Jewish upbringing and being a lefty millennial Jew in Hollywood.
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Jewish Currents"I have a lot of compassion for people, regardless of their political beliefs or where they’re from, and really just want justice and dignity and a future for the world. And I think Nazis should fuck off. I guess that makes me a leftist Jew."
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The Republican Party in the era of Trump has become the party of the Israeli settler right, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis its most devoted champion.
Readers respond to Peter Beinart’s call for an equal, binational state in Israel-Palestine.
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Jewish CurrentsLast week, we published an essay by Editor-at-Large @PeterBeinart in which he declared the two-state solution dead and made an argument for a confederation or equal binational state in Israel-Palestine. Here are some of the letters we received in response.
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Our editor-at-large discusses the background of his essay on the end of the two-state solution, and responds to its critics.
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Jewish CurrentsIn this Q&A, now online, @DavidKlion asks @PeterBeinart about the backstory behind his essays on the end of the two-state solution this week—and Peter responds to his critics.
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