Jewish Currents

1 week ago | jewishcurrents.org | David Klion

In 1974, a 35-year-old Harvard lecturer named Marty Peretz purchased The New Republic (TNR) with $380,000 of his wife’s inherited sewing machine fortune and commenced remaking the magazine in his image. Though he came up on the activist New Left in the 1960s, Peretz had since fallen out with many of his erstwhile comrades over Israel, particularly its rejection by Black radicals.

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.

2 weeks ago | jewishcurrents.org | Alex Kane

In early May, in the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s first trip to the Middle East in his second term, the US embarked on a set of foreign policy shifts that explicitly went against the wishes of Trump’s erstwhile friend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. First, Trump ended the US bombing campaign in Yemen, despite the Houthi rebels vowing to continue their missile attacks against Israel.

3 weeks ago | jewishcurrents.org | Aryeh Bernstein |Maya Rosen

In September 2024, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Turkish American human rights activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi outside of Nablus in the northern West Bank. Her murder was a devastating example of a sharp uptick in military and settler violence against both Palestinian residents and the international and Israeli activists who work with them.

1 month ago | jewishcurrents.org | Alex Kane

On January 8th, senior New York Police Department (NYPD) staff joined over 150 law enforcement officers, city officials, and religious leaders at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan for a training on combating antisemitism.