New Future

Clashes between a liberal Zionist rabbinical school and its heavily anti-Zionist student body encapsulate a broader fight over the Jewish future.

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Revisiting Edward Said’s ethical humanism in the context of the Gaza genocide

Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.

A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”

"When he says / I want to get the get out of here / he wants to go home and by that / he means where he wants to die"

Philanthropists have quietly withdrawn funding from grassroots groups that spoke out for Gaza, imperiling a broad range of social justice movements.

On Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann’s The Klezmer Project

“There are cracks that exist in our communities, and we need to build from them.”

We must turn to histories of decolonization not in order to predictoutcomes, but to expand our sense of how to fight without knowing the future.

"A perfect day // Can be a backdrop so calm"

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"Our friendship was the ideology of my life."

In her recent book, The Reeducation of Race , Sonali Thakkar excavates the mid-century roots of contemporary liberal anti-racism.