"To the rabbi Iβd promised a loyalty so primal and regressive it almost qualified as a throwback to a totalitarian, fascistic style of erotic attachment."
Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social:
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"To the rabbi Iβd promised a loyalty so primal and regressive it almost qualified as a throwback to a totalitarian, fascistic style of erotic attachment."
Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social:
jewishcurrents.org/my-lover-the...
Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on the enduring meaning of observing Ramadan in Gaza.
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Very interesting @jewishcurrents.bsky.social "On The Nose" podcast on the multiple and sometimes conflicting meanings of the terms "Zionism" and "anti-Zionism" to Jewish people, in light of recent polling and the Conference on the Jewish Left
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βWe need to be helping move Jewish community members from the triangle of fear to the triangle of dignity....there still is antisemitism. ...The answer to that isnβt an ethno-supremacist state. The answer to that is building a world where human dignity is respected for all.β
β Fadi Quran (50:52)
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04.03.2026 01:58 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0got the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social winter freebie in the mail today! fantastic stuff about sephardic socialist organizing
04.03.2026 05:33 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Jewish establishment groups are backing a war Americans donβt want, and theyβre setting up American Jews to take the blame, @joshnathankazis.bsky.social writes. jewishcurrents.org/jewish-group...
04.03.2026 00:34 β π 45 π 12 π¬ 1 π 3American Jewish leaders are creating a moment of political peril for their institutions, and for the American Jews they purport to represent. jewishcurrents.org/jewish-group...
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"It wasnβt the rabbiβs cock I wanted in my face, it was the sense of annihilation and relief that rushed over me when his cock finally arrived to smother and obliterate my restlessness and ambivalence."
Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social:
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βI, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.β
Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/my-lover-the...
This week, the New York City Council discussed bills to regulate protests outside of synagogues and educational institutions. Mainstream Jewish groups said the bill would increase police power. But the NYPD disagreed. Read the report from @alexbkane.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/would-buffer...
27.02.2026 20:46 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Rival House bills show fractures between Jewish anti-occupation groups, @joshnathankazis.bsky.social reports. jewishcurrents.org/as-americans...
27.02.2026 19:30 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1βThe Black Panther team in Algiers worked like a military organization; they wrote down everything they did. They all had roles to play and knew what their roles were. It was amazing."
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The organizer and writer Elaine Mokhtefi, who helped transform Algeria into an epicenter of anti-colonial liberation, in conversation with Ari Brostoff
Now online from our fall 2025 issue.
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Wow this goes hard, in the best way. But it is NOT for the faint of nuance, fam. I really love the fearlessness of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social - not afraid to wade on into the tough stuff. π
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Epstein's Jewish Cohort: @davidklion.bsky.social in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social examines how Jeffrey Epstein exploited networks of Jewish elites through "affinity fraud," relying on shared cultural background and clannishness to facilitate his crimes.
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New polling suggests American Jews donβt know what the word βZionismβ means. Should it change the way the Jewish left organizes? Arielle Angel speaks with Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari, @dovekent.bsky.social, and @fadiqu.bsky.social on the JC podcast.
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This is a fucking amazing piece by @davidklion.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, and I wish everyone would read it
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"Epsteinβs humble Coney Island youth comes up frequently in his inbox. Hot dogs, boardwalks, amusement park rides β¦ everyone who wrote Epstein seemed to understand that they were part of his whole schtick."
New essay from @davidklion.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...
A must read
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"The Times assiduously charts how Epstein relied on his talents as a networker and schmoozer to win over one person, who in turn he would convince to introduce him to the next, working his way higher and higher into a particular segment of the ruling class."
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This was a good read: "For all the moral panic about resurgent antisemitism over the past several years, much of it aimed at Palestine solidarity activists on the left, nothing has encouraged the real thing quite like the Epstein files."
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In the Epstein emails, "one can recognize a nostalgic, almost kitschy relationship to Jewish identity that plenty of ordinary Jews tend to indulge in," @davidklion.bsky.social writes in his new essay.
26.02.2026 02:28 β π 17 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I wrote about Epstein and the Jews
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Epstein relied on Jewish in-group bonds to cultivate the network that facilitated his crimes.
New essay from @davidklion.bsky.social on the line between affinity and conspiracy
my other read this morning was this piece in Jewish Currents by a MPLS urgent care worker. worth your time
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"How can we, as individual providers within larger healthcare systems, protect our patients when our institutional policies do not?"
24.02.2026 16:36 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"As ICE invades other cities, we will all need to ask what we can doβand what we are willing to riskβto stand in the way of our countryβs descent into unadulterated fascism."
23.02.2026 20:00 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0"Did I do enough? Should I have done more? Did I do too much? Would I lose my job? Could I have lived with myself if Iβd followed my employerβs policies?"
23.02.2026 16:36 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I write about Brecht, Vivian Gornick, the menorah, the labor theory of value, and commodity fetishism: jewishcurrents.org/parshah/febr...
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