Jewish Currents

Dec 10, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Jewish Currents

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. A wave of anti-Palestinian repression has swept the Western art world in the aftermath of October 7th, 2023. From Amsterdam to San Francisco, artists who have criticized Israel’s brutal war on Gaza have seen their exhibitions canceled, their work deinstalled, and other opportunitiesrescinded.

Nov 14, 2024 | religiondispatches.org | Jewish Culture |Jewish Currents

With Trump’s second presidency, Christian Zionism may be returning to the White House stronger than ever before. His recent nomination of Mike Huckabee as US ambassador to Israel and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense mean that militant, hardline Christian Zionists stand to be in control of the Pentagon and US military—and, of course, at the helm of the US-Israel relationship.

Nov 12, 2024 | bookshop.org | Jewish Currents |Martin Gelin

Description A piercing examination of America's struggle with racism and why this now threatens the survival of the nation's democracyWhen the U.S. Capitol was stormed in 2021, it was an attack on the very idea of America as a pluralist democracy. It was also a reminder that the worst threat to the United States today doesn't come from any foreign despot, but from domestic racism.

Nov 5, 2024 | religiondispatches.org | Jewish Culture |Jewish Currents

On election day, the Right is focused on turning out men in particular to vote, with messaging focused on marshaling masculinity to save America and re-elect Trump. Yesterday on the highly popular Joe Rogan show, Elon Musk told Rogan “the biggest factor here is that men need to vote. This is a message to the men out there: vote like your life depends on it. Because I think it does. Vote tomorrow. Nothing is more important.” Rogan endorsed Trump last night, prompting jubilation across the MAGAverse.

Oct 8, 2024 | bookshop.org | Jewish Currents |Timothy Shenk

(Author) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it today Politics today doesn't look much like it did fifty years ago.