JEWISH CURRENTS

AUGUST 12. 2024

The Book of Randy - How a Jewish, pro-Israel Florida state rep is building power within the “America First” right.

How a Jewish, pro-Israel Florida state rep is building power within the “America First” right.

Ghosts of the Groves - In Israel and Florida, violent parallel histories of citrus cultivation have set the stage for a budding agricultural alliance.

In Israel and Florida, violent parallel histories of citrus cultivation have set the stage for a budding agricultural alliance.

Memories of A Here-and-Now Place - The end of old Jewish Miami Beach and the rise of Little Haiti, 1977–1986

The end of old Jewish Miami Beach and the rise of Little Haiti, 1977–1986

Death to dictators -

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More Truth - To truly oppose the right’s attacks on education, Jewish communities must face Palestinian history.

To truly oppose the right’s attacks on education, Jewish communities must face Palestinian history.

Buenezas of South Florida - How plant wisdom connects Indigenous communities and the diasporas that make their homes in the region

How plant wisdom connects Indigenous communities and the diasporas that make their homes in the region

Paradis Lost - The life and death of a radical Miami bookstore

The life and death of a radical Miami bookstore

Searching for the Jewish Future in South Florida - Does Miami’s hardline Zionist consensus make it an outlier in American Jewish life—or a harbinger of things to come?

Does Miami’s hardline Zionist consensus make it an outlier in American Jewish life—or a harbinger of things to come?

The Jewish Revolutionaries of Key West - In the last years of the 19th century, Jews inspired by the fight for Cuban independence joined the fray, running weapons to their comrades on the other side of the Florida Straits.

In the last years of the 19th century, Jews inspired by the fight for Cuban independence joined the fray, running weapons to their comrades on the other…

AUGUST 2. 2024

Is This Anything? - Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise reproduces the nullity at the heart of contemporary American Jewish life.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise reproduces the nullity at the heart of contemporary American Jewish life.

AUGUST 1. 2024

Should We Vote? - An investigation through Jewish text on the ethics of choosing the “lesser of two evils. ”

An investigation through Jewish text on the ethics of choosing the “lesser of two evils.”