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On the new episode of our podcast, On the Nose, Nathan Goldman speaks with three members of SVARA's Teshuva-Writing Collective—Laynie Soloman, Alyx Bernstein, and Rabbi Xava de Cordova—about their groundbreaking work to reimagine halakha for trans life. jewishcurrents.org/trans-halakha

“He finally decided to take up arms against God himself.” Now online from our Spring issue: A very short story by the Argentine writer Daniel Guebel, introduced and translated by Jessica Sequeira. Read it in both Spanish and English: jewishcurrents.org/the-theologi...

Following the reissue of Rona Jaffe’s feminist classic The Best of Everything, contributing writer Jess Bergman examines the novelist's lesser-known works of the ’60s and ’70s, which show how her drive for independence took shape. https://jewishcurrents.org/family-ties

"Faced with signs of the earth’s demise, maybe I can focus on fiercely loving what I love now and holding the tragedy that the world, and everything I love in it, will be lost." A new essay by operations manager Cynthia Friedman: https://jewishcurrents.org/to-grieve-the-world-like-a-dying-friend

This week on our podcast, On The Nose, editor-in-chief Arielle Angel talks to two longtime Kinderlanders, Judee Rosenbaum and Mitchell Silver, about the storied summer camp, founded by Jewish unionists in 1923. https://jewishcurrents.org/camp-kinderland-at-100

Raphael Magarik speaks with scholar Jennifer Lynn Kelly, author of Invited to Witness, about the history of solidarity tourism to Palestine, its political possibilities and ethical challenges, and how Palestinian guides are reimagining tourism. https://jewishcurrents.org/can-tourism-be-liberatory

Now online from our Spring issue: Andrew Silverstein reports on the activists who are laying Holocaust remembrance stones for Spanish Republicans deported to Nazi concentration camps in an attempt to break Spain’s “Pact of Silence” around its civil war. https://jewishcurrents.org/step-by-step

The Israeli government’s neglect of its Arab citizens has created a void of social services—a void in which organized crime has made its home: https://jewishcurrents.org/we-are-in-a-daily-battle-for-survival

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From our Spring issue: Isabella Hammad reviews Anton Shammas's recently reissued Hebrew novel, which uses the arabesque's infinity to contest the Zionist enclosures of Palestinian life. https://jewishcurrents.org/exile-in-the-interior

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On this episode of On the Nose, Nora Caplan-Bricker speaks with @aparna.bsky.social and Azad Essa about India, Israel, and the potential for the hasbara playbook to be used by ethnonationalist movements worldwide https://jewishcurrents.org/what-indian-ethnonationalists-learned-from-israel-advocates

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Hindu nationalists are copying Zionist tactics. @aparna.bsky.social recently wrote a great article on this. Here, she discusses highlights —

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I once looked longingly at Germany as an example of how a nation's public history could grapple with its past atrocities better than the US does. But in fact Germany's memory culture is rife with troubling dynamics. Read our Spring 2023 responsa: https://jewishcurrents.org/bad-memory-2

Germany is acclaimed for its efforts to atone for the Holocaust. But its method of repudiating the past has become a tool of exclusion. Read the Responsa from our Spring issue, online now: https://jewishcurrents.org/bad-memory-2

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Sitting by the pool on Crete, reading Roderick Beaton courtesy of @davidklion.bsky.social and the undefeated @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Shabbat Reading List. Breathing in those romioi vapors

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