Jewish Currents

10/09/2026

In uptown Manhattan last night, we watched the NYPD facilitate a reckless dash by ICE vehicles that endangered protesters.

Outside the hospital where a man shot by ICE was being treated, the NYPD facilitated a dangerous gambit.

10/08/2026

US Jews have long confronted Netanyahu’s extremism as an aberration to evade a deeper reckoning over Israel. What will happen if he goes? Read Mari Cohen's analysis of the American Jewish rhetoric surrounding the coming Israeli election:

Jewish liberals hope a Netanyahu loss will restore their dream Israel. It won’t.

10/08/2026

On this episode of On the Nose, scholars Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin discuss their recent investigation into what PEN America got wrong in its article about bias against Jewish and Israeli writers. https://jewishcurrents.org/fact-versus-fiction-in-claims-about-antisemitism-in-publishing

10/06/2026

The numbers that tell the story of the past three years of horror in Gaza, and beyond.
https://jewishcurrents.org/an-accounting-of-three-years-of-horror-in-gaza-and-beyond

10/05/2026

"If I were writing fiction, I would be accused of melodrama and inconceivable exaggeration—but grief does not ask craft for permission.”

Abdullah Hany Daher writes from Gaza, up now: https://jewishcurrents.org/a-tree-severed-from-its-roots

10/01/2026

Progressive Democrat Will Lawrence wanted J Street’s endorsement during the tough primary this spring. He doesn’t anymore.

Insurgent Democrats aren’t seeking J Street’s endorsement in Michigan.

10/01/2026

On this episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel speaks to Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing) and Rami Younis (Lyd) about NAZA and the function of cinema focused on the perpetrators of genocide.

Joshua Oppenheimer ( The Act of Killing ) and Rami Younis ( Lyd ) discuss the new film about the Gaza genocide, told from the perspective of the killers.

10/01/2026

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression organization, the ADL, and others.

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

09/30/2026

Announcing the full JC Live program! Visit jewishcurrents.org/live to check out the lineup and register.

We’ll see you on October 11.

09/29/2026

For today’s news desk, senior reporter Alex Kane sits down with Saher Selod, the director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, to talk about the role of Islamophobia in American politics today.

https://jewishcurrents.org/republicans-are-road-testing-an-anti-muslim-strategy