Mari Cohen

Jan 3, 2024 | jewishcurrents.org | Mari Cohen |Alex Kane

Yaёl Eisenstat, the head of the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center for Technology and Society (CTS), is leaving the organization due to disagreement with the ADL CEO’s praise of Elon Musk, according to a current ADL staffer with knowledge of CTS-related decisions who requested anonymity to protect their job.

Dec 19, 2023 | jewishcurrents.org | Mari Cohen

(This article also appeared in the Jewish Currents email newsletter;subscribe here!)On October 4th, I met the writer Nathan Thrall for coffee in Brooklyn. That night, he would kick off the tour for his new nonfiction book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, alongside Salama, the story’s Palestinian protagonist.

Dec 8, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Mari Cohen

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Dec 8, 2023 | jewishcurrents.org | Mari Cohen

On the morning of November 14th, a few hours before the March for Israel was set to begin on the National Mall, members of the self-described “Peace Bloc”—a loose coalition of American Jewish progressive organizations—began to gather across the street from the National Museum of American History. To mark their territory, they draped an Israeli flag with the Hebrew word “Shalom” in the center over a tourist wayfinding pillar.

Nov 8, 2023 | jewishcurrents.org | Mari Cohen

After beginning her job this past August as director of the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y—a nearly 150-year-old Jewish community and cultural center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side—the critic and scholar Sarah Chihaya quickly found that getting acclaimed writers and academics to participate in programming at the storied literary institution was no hard sell. “Everyone I talked to was like, ‘Yes, I would love to do it,’” she said.