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US Jews have long confronted Netanyahu’s extremism as an aberration to evade a deeper reckoning over Israel. What will happen if he goes? Read maricohen.bsky.social's analysis of the American Jewish rhetoric surrounding the coming Israeli election: jewishcurrents.org/the-israeli-...
The Israeli Elections Can’t Save Liberal Zionism
Jewish liberals hope a Netanyahu loss will restore their dream Israel. It won’t.
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Join us on Sunday night at Littlefield for the JC Live afterparty! Featuring live music by Avery Friedman and a DJ set by Mansaf Mama. Space is limited and we anticipate this event will sell out. Get your tickets (free for members!) at jewishcurrents.org/live.
On this episode of On the Nose, scholars Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin discuss their recent investigation into what PEN America got wrong in its article about bias against Jewish and Israeli writers. jewishcurrents.org/fact-versus-...
'Was this fear of "the danger" meant to distract them from the pain eating at their souls?' Read the short story This is My Father by Sami Michael from A People's Literature in Palestine/Israel (Hana Morgenstern) in Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
This Is My Father
"Was this fear of 'the danger' meant to distract them from the pain eating at their souls?"
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For the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter today, I wrote about the weird and creepy "Talmud" discourse on Twitter last week, with help from @benlorber8.bsky.social.
The numbers that tell the story of the past three years of horror in Gaza, and beyond. jewishcurrents.org/an-accountin...
"If I were writing fiction, I would be accused of melodrama and inconceivable exaggeration—but grief does not ask craft for permission.” Abdullah Hany Daher writes from Gaza, up now: jewishcurrents.org/a-tree-sever...
As the Jewish novelist Temim Fruchter put it, “These institutions are feeding the narrative that if people are angry that Israel is exacting mass collective punishment, they must hate Jews and Jewish literature.” jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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turns out that everything in PEN’s “report” on anti-semitism was a gross distortion or a lie. Thank you @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for this investigation jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Jewish Currents not only produced a phenomenal critique of PEN, it also did the rigorous research and fact checking that PEN—my former employer!—failed to do in its “report” on publishing trends for Jewish Lit. And the data is hyperlinked!
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 7d agoAs the Jewish novelist Temim Fruchter put it, “These institutions are feeding the narrative that if people are angry that Israel is exacting mass collective punishment, they must hate Jews and Jewish literature.” jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
It's the biggest event in Jewish Currents history, and we need your help to pull it off. Sign up to volunteer for JC Live on October 11th. You'll receive lunch, a stipend, and free admission. airtable.com/appFPtl1ELsY...
As the Jewish novelist Temim Fruchter put it, “These institutions are feeding the narrative that if people are angry that Israel is exacting mass collective punishment, they must hate Jews and Jewish literature.” jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
jewishcurrents.org
oh wow this is a must listen.
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · last wk.On this episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel speaks to Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing) and Rami Younis (Lyd) about NAZA and the function of cinema focused on the perpetrators of genocide. jewishcurrents.org/naza-and-the...
Very thorough and persuasive!
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · last wk.When Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin tracked publishing deals since 2000, they found—rather than a decline in Jewish literature—that 2025 was the third-best year of the 21st century for book deals that publicly signaled Jewish or Israeli content. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
I am proud of what Josh and I accomplished in this essay, which took deep reporting and data gathering, and which ultimately runs to a hearty 7000+ words to explain what's really going on with Jewish American and Israeli books in US publishing as PEN America and the ADL run cover for genocide
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · last wk.When Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin tracked publishing deals since 2000, they found—rather than a decline in Jewish literature—that 2025 was the third-best year of the 21st century for book deals that publicly signaled Jewish or Israeli content. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
Progressive Democrat Will Lawrence wanted J Street’s endorsement during the tough primary this spring. He doesn’t anymore. jewishcurrents.org/in-michigan-...
In Michigan, a Progressive House Candidate Courted J Street. Then He…
Insurgent Democrats aren’t seeking J Street’s endorsement in Michigan.
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When Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin tracked publishing deals since 2000, they found—rather than a decline in Jewish literature—that 2025 was the third-best year of the 21st century for book deals that publicly signaled Jewish or Israeli content. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
On this episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel speaks to Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing) and Rami Younis (Lyd) about NAZA and the function of cinema focused on the perpetrators of genocide. jewishcurrents.org/naza-and-the...
This is staggering work from @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and Josh Lambert in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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This isn't just a think piece saying they disagree with PEN America; they actually went back and examined at the data and reporting — including a key claim that a literary agent was selling far fewer books by Jewish and Israeli authors in the US — and found it lacking. Fascinating work.
Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · last wk.Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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"The cultural critic Maris Kreizman said, 'There are people claiming antisemitism when they didn’t get a book deal, but maybe they’re just bad writers.'” jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression organization, the ADL, and others. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
jewishcurrents.org
Announcing the full JC Live program! Visit jewishcurrents.org/live to check out the lineup and register. We’ll see you on October 11.
“Regardless of the outcome of some of these elections in Texas and in Michigan, it certainly has an impact on the lives of Muslims living in this country.”
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · last wk.For today’s news desk, senior reporter @alexbkane.bsky.social sits down with Saher Selod, the director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, to talk about the role of Islamophobia in American politics today. jewishcurrents.org/republicans-...
For today’s news desk, senior reporter @alexbkane.bsky.social sits down with Saher Selod, the director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, to talk about the role of Islamophobia in American politics today. jewishcurrents.org/republicans-...
The Baffler is excited to once again partner with @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for Jewish Currents Live on Sunday, October 11, in Brooklyn, NY. It’s an all-day program, featuring speakers, panels, and performances. Get your tickets now!
Jewish Currents Live
JC Live is an all-day gathering of performance, learning, and discussion convened by Jewish Currents.
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It's the biggest event in Jewish Currents history, and we need your help to pull it off. Sign up to volunteer for JC Live on October 11th. You'll receive lunch, a stipend, and free admission. airtable.com/appFPtl1ELsY...
Attend ‘Inheriting Defeat on the Jewish Left: What Survives Our Losses?,’ a conversation with Arielle Angel, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, Irena Klepfisz, and Harriet Clark at JC Live on October 11, 2026. Register at jewishcurrents.org/live.
"So that we may say we were here once, Palestinians smiling. / And here the promise of food reassembles joy." jewishcurrents.org/from-exhibit-g
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2w agoAn excerpt of a poem from Fady Joudah’s new book, ‘Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza,’ out this week. Joudah’s poem is the first in a series selected by Zaina Alsous, who introduces the poem on our site. jewishcurrents.org/from-exhibit-g
