After Abdul El-Sayed's narrow win, a general election fight looms. Alex Kane reports from Detroit on last night's nailbiter. jewishcurrents.org/general-elec...
Josh Nathan-Kazis
@joshnathankazis.bsky.social
News director at @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Used to write on healthcare for Barron's; once was a reporter at the Forward.
Israeli prosecutors will file charges against the settler who shot Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen last year. jewishcurrents.org/israeli-pros...
With the Jewish establishment's help, a Black political group battles the left. jewishcurrents.org/with-jewish-...
On the Conservative rabbinate's new rules on being nice to intermarried families, in today's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter.
Scoop from Will Alden at the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk today: A leftist Jewish conference reversed course on its invitation to MAGA provocateur Curt Mills. jewishcurrents.org/jewish-left-...
Jewish Left Conference Dumps MAGA Provocateur Curt Mills After Outcry
The intellectual leader of MAGA’s anti-Israel wing won’t appear at the conference.
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I wrote for the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk on Friday about the Jewish establishment's efforts to blame Mamdani's anti-genocide politics for the frightening stabbing yesterday on the Upper West Side. jewishcurrents.org/jewish-leade...
Jewish Leaders Blame Mamdani’s Criticism of Netanyahu for a Manhattan…
The establishment wants to paint anti-genocide politics as anti-Jewish.
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In the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter yesterday, Will Alden had details on the fallout from his scoop on MAGA ideologue Curt Mills's invitation to speak at a leftist Jewish conference.
Scoop from Will Alden in the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter today: A Jewish left conference invited the MAGA provocateur Curt Mills. One other speaker has already dropped out. Touches on a big question: Should the Jewish left engage with the anti-war Trumpists?
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 4w agoMAGA firebrand Curt Mills will speak at a Jewish Left conference. Does he belong? jewishcurrents.org/curt-mills-a...
On unkosher slop, from the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter today, citing @theradr.bsky.social and @jfederations.bsky.social.
On Democrats' Lebanon war powers switcheroo, from today's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter.
From the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk, a report by Charlotte Ritz-Jack on the collapsing healthcare system for Palestinians in the West Bank.
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · last mo.As Israel chokes the Palestinian Authority, patients can’t get basic medical services in the West Bank. jewishcurrents.org/the-healthca...
From this afternoon's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter, on what happened last night.
Israel’s decision to give up on US aid in favor of deep integration with the US military is stripping the pro-Palestine left of one of its most potent political weapons. Our news desk took a look at what it means—and how activists intend to respond. jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-a...
Israel’s decision to give up on US aid in favor of deep integration with the US military is stripping the pro-Palestine left of one of its most potent political weapons. I wrote about it for the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk today.
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs the US and Israeli trade military aid for military integration, the pro-Palestine left loses one of its most potent political weapons. jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-a...
From yesterday's news desk newsletter, a close look at the ADL's new report claiming that applying BDS principles to NYC's public pension funds would cost tens of billions of dollars in missed gains.
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Anti-Defamation League subsidiary JLens says that BDS could cost NYC's public employee pension funds billions tens of billions over the next decade. The calculation vastly overstates the demands of pro-Palestine divestment campaigners. jewishcurrents.org/phantom-boyc...
The Anti-Defamation League says BDS would cost New Yorkers billions. It’s overstating the demands of divestment campaigners. jewishcurrents.org/phantom-boyc...
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Jewish Currents' bi-weekly News Desk edited by @joshnathankazis.bsky.social contains all the News of the Jews That's Fit To Print. I didn't think this would become one of my sources but now I look forward to its sharp, careful news nuggets jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/f...
From the News Desk: A Pro-Israel Litmus Test Backfires
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I've had a pretty hard time getting myself to care about the purchasing policies of a members-only supermarket in Brooklyn, so I asked my colleague Mari Cohen to explain to me why the Park Slope Food Coop boycott vote matters for today's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter.
IfNotNow is organizing what they call "fighting factions" inside mainstream liberal synagogues. I wrote about the new strategy for the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk this week. jewishcurrents.org/with-fightin...
With “Fighting Factions,” IfNotNow Zeroes in on Mainstream Synagogues
As the left gives up on conventional Jewish institutions, IfNotNow still sees members to mobilize.
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A brief dispatch on that party at Gracie Mansion last night, from today's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter.
Earlier this week I spoke with @joshnathankazis.bsky.social on Abe Foxman's legacy. Should've ended w/"...a playbook his successor followed to help fuel the greatest explosion of antisemitism in our lifetime." Read the rest in Josh's regular must-read newsletter: jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/f...
![He did two major things as head of the ADL: He fused Jewish identity, and the morality of the fight against antisemitism, with Israel’s interests. And he made himself a pope-like figure of the Jews, our official leader, demanding political and cultural homages and headline coverage. As he said, “I don’t represent, I lead.” Was that a quote he gave to you?
JNK: It was. The exact quote was: “I don’t sit and poll my constituency. Part of Jewish leadership is leadership. We lead.”
EV: Plus, there was Foxman’s public corruption and abuse of power, as seen in the Marc Rich scandal, which happened in the years preceding my start to drawing cartoons. [Ed note: In 2000, Foxman lobbied for a pardon for the fugitive financier Marc Rich after Rich gave a $100,000 donation to the ADL.] And he also lobbied against a congressional resolution acknowledging the Armenian genocide. The combination of these factors—fusing antisemitism with anti-Zionism, the orchestration of public humiliation spectacles, and naked corruption—created a playbook his successor followed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:itcqruu6tvm4sjbzffscuao6/bafkreiabjgg6jazl3oz7vwsyu5e5c4lz6kyxvw4iwajkir3m73edfegysi)
On the absurd idea that the Israelis have a case against the Times and Kristof, in the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter today.
