Conservative Judaism’s origins lie in a donor plan to neutralize and refine the radical Jewish immigrant masses.
Prefigurement
Today’s cruel treatment of Muslims and immigrants was originally crafted as an attack on Jews.
With Freedom in Our Ears
Contributors bring to light the presence and persistence of Jewish anarchism throughout histories of radical labor, women's studies, political theory, multilingual literature, and ethnic studies.
The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex
The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalism
Jewish Materialism
A paradigm-shifting account of the modern Jewish experience, from one of the most creative young historians of his generationTo understand the organizing fra...
Israel: What Went Wrong?
A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion.The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become a leading scholar of the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention to his native country.In Israel: What Went Wrong?, Bartov sketches the tragic transformation of Zionism, a movement that sought to emancipate European Jewry from oppression, into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism. How is it possible, he asks, that a state founded in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, an event that gave legitimacy to a national home for the Jews, stands credibly accused of perpetrating large-scale war crimes? How do we come to terms with the fact that Israel’s war of destruction is being conducted with the support, laced with denial and indifference, of so many of its Jewish citizens?Tracing the roots of the violent events currently unfolding in Israel and the occupied territories, Bartov tracks his country's moral tribulations and considers the origins of Zionism, the intertwining of Israel’s independence with Palestinian displacement, the politics of the Holocaust, controversies over the term "genocide," and the uncertain future. The result is a searing and urgent critique that addresses today’s debates over Zionism and the future of Israel with rigor and depth.
Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine Reconsider the Jewish Pharisees
In 'The Pharisees,' two religion scholars trace modern anti-Semitism back to hatred for the Jewish Pharisees.
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Processing the Attack at Bondi Beach
Jewish Currents speaks with Sarah Schwartz of the Jewish Council of Australia about the Jewish left response to the deadly Hanukkah shooting.
We Need New Jewish Institutions
Sustaining the struggle will require spaces for reimagining our tradition.
Epstein and the Capitalist Conspiracy
Naomi Klein discusses what to do with a narrative that mirrors the worst anti-Jewish theories and the importance of holding our depraved elites…
Jewish Liberation Fund
Jewish Liberation Fund is grounded in the belief that the American Jewish community has enough resources to bring forth the liberatory world of which we dream.
Sociologie de l’antisémitisme français
Un rabbin agressé par un jeune homme à Orléans, une caricature LFI de Cyril Hanouna qui choque, Jordan Bardella qui se rend en Israël… Que nous dit la sociologie sur l’évolution de l’antisémitisme contemporain ?
Reclaiming the Ladino Left
The early 20th century saw a flurry of left activism by Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews in the US. Recovering their legacy can enrich the Jewish left of…
