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Arielle Angel

New York

Editor-in-Chief and Writer at Jewish Currents

Writer, editor-in-chief @JewishCurrents.

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  • 1 week ago | jewishcurrents.org | Arielle Angel

    On the first Sunday afternoon in May, the final day of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) National Members Meeting in Baltimore, executive director Stefanie Fox took the stage to fortify the crowd for the work ahead. She laid out a lengthy list of threats to the movement for Palestine, many of them already on the tracks—from the potential revocation of nonprofit status and freezing of bank accounts to the criminal prosecution of activists—before switching into a personal register.

  • 1 month ago | vulture.com | Arielle Angel

    This month, our own Andrea Long Chu published Authority, a collection of her work across New York Magazine, n+1, and other publications. It includes two new essays on the state and history of criticism, taking us from the 18th century through the present. In recent years, it has become common to say that criticism is in a state of crisis. It turns out, Chu writes, people have been saying this ever since criticism first became a thing.

  • Nov 5, 2024 | jewishcurrents.org | Arielle Angel

    On October 8th, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the group that had organized the student encampment for Palestine last spring, posted a statement on their Instagram account apologizing for compromising their message to “[pander] to liberal media and make the movement for liberation palatable and digestible,” and affirming their commitment to liberation “by any means necessary, including armed resistance.” Almost two weeks later, a collective of Palestinian student organizers...

  • Sep 23, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Arielle Angel

    In the last few years, Jewish Currents has been the intellectual storm-centre of a multi-sided, inter-generational debate within the Jewish community about breaking with Israel over its occupation strategy—and the war on Gaza in particular. The Currents project—print journal, online articles, weekly newsletters, podcasts, live events—has helped to develop a far-reaching left critique of the American-Jewish establishment strategy as essentially ‘Americanist assimilationism plus Zionism’.

  • Aug 12, 2024 | jewishcurrents.org | Arielle Angel

    A certain expression crosses people’s faces when you tell them you’re from Miami—a mixture of surprise and intrigue and pity. They’ve been there on a short beach vacation, or to see their great aunt, or they missed a connecting flight en route to somewhere farther south and found themselves stranded. They thought it was fun in a kitschy way, or super weird, or sort of boring. They want to know: What was it like to grow up there? You struggle to answer this question.

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