Jewish Currents

05/28/2026

On this week's episode of on the nose, Arielle Angel speaks with Ahmed Moor, Maya Rosen, and Muhammad Shehada about Sally Rooney's decision to publish a BDS-compliant Hebrew translation of her latest book, Intermezzo.

Discussing the Irish author’s decision to offer a BDS-compliant translation of her last book

05/26/2026

As the rest of the left gives up on conventional Jewish institutions, IfNotNow turns its focus to mainstream synagogues.

As the left gives up on conventional Jewish institutions, IfNotNow still sees members to mobilize.

05/21/2026

Congressional Progressive Caucus leaders have consistently attacked AIPAC. But their endorsement of Rep. Adriano Espaillat shows that opposition to AIPAC apparently does not extend to opposition to caucus members who take AIPAC money.

In endorsing Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the Congressional Progressive Caucus protects its own.

05/21/2026

On this week's episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel speaks with Hasan Piker about how electoral politics can be used to spread class consciousness and why the streamer keeps talking about antisemitism.

The streamer and political commentator discusses how electoral politics can be used to spread class consciousness and why he keeps talking about…

05/21/2026

While Wallace Shawn's latest show, What We Did Before Our Moth Days, trades political violence for marital strife, it is still an exercise in audience complicity, Alisa Solomon writes.

While his latest show, What We Did Before Our Moth Days , trades political violence for marital strife, it is still an exercise in audience complicity.

05/20/2026

MAGA journalist Curt Mills wants to bring respectability to “America First” opposition to Israel. Just don’t ask him about the Groypers at his heels.

Read Will Alden's report – now unpaywalled – on Mills and the anti-war right, from our new spring issue

The MAGA journalist wants to bring respectability to “America First” opposition to Israel. Just don’t ask him about the Groypers at his heels.

05/19/2026

An Orthodox yeshiva for non-observant diaspora Jews received long-sought approval to bring hundreds of Jewish students into the Palestinian neighborhood. Read Charlotte Ritz-Jack's news desk report:

An Orthodox yeshiva for non-observant diaspora Jews received long-sought approval to bring hundreds of Jewish students into the Palestinian neighborhood

05/18/2026

Political scientist As’ad Ghanem argues that the rise of crime in Palestinian communities inside Israel is not a policy failure, but the result of decades of state efforts to weaken Palestinian collective life. https://jewishcurrents.org/criminal-governance

05/14/2026

A deep-pocketed super PAC focused on Middle East politics plans to dump $2 million on its favored candidate. But it’s not AIPAC. It’s American Priorities, and they're testing whether AIPAC's strategy can work for the left.

In New Jersey, a pro-Palestine group is trying out the AIPAC playbook.

05/14/2026

On the latest episode of On the Nose, Brendan McGeever of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Em Hilton of Na'amod UK discuss recent attacks on Jewish life in London and how the state response fuels the fire.

Brendan McGeever and Em Hilton discuss recent attacks on Jewish life in London and how the state response fuels the fire.