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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 13h

"Thank you for willing oxygen into being
so that light is harnessed.
So that light is harnessed
and oxygen ignites of its own accord
in collusion with nothing of your doing."

From a poem by Fady Joudah

Another Example of Repetition

"Meanwhile sanguinity is swinging / songs during smoke-filled galas / in cities that move images as Godsmove mountains."

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 15h

"Meanwhile sanguinity is swinging
songs during smoke-filled galas
in cities that move images as Gods
move mountains."

From a poem by Fady Joudah, first published in our summer issue, now out from behind the paywall with an introduction by Claire Schwartz
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Another Example of Repetition

"Meanwhile sanguinity is swinging / songs during smoke-filled galas / in cities that move images as Godsmove mountains."

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 20h

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 20h

UPDATE: Emily Wilder was deported to Istanbul today, alongside many of the other flotilla participants, and is safe and hopefully heading home to LA shortly. Thank you so much for your advocacy. More coverage soon!

Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 20h

UPDATE: Emily Wilder was deported to Istanbul today, alongside many of the other flotilla participants, and is safe and hopefully heading home to LA shortly. Thank you so much for your advocacy. More coverage soon!

Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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Homodoxy @homodoxy.com · 1d

"A hand cannot tremble and write at the same time."

I continue to be grateful to Jewish Currents for their coverage of this genocide, including life in Gaza amidst it.

Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 1d

"Language, too, has collapsed under the weight of this present that will not pass. I write 'We survived,' but the past tense feels insufficient when we don’t know what the next hour will bring."

A Time That Refuses to Pass

While the world marks two years since October 7th, 2023, those of us in Gaza have been living inside one long night.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 1d

"Language, too, has collapsed under the weight of this present that will not pass. I write 'We survived,' but the past tense feels insufficient when we don’t know what the next hour will bring."

A Time That Refuses to Pass

While the world marks two years since October 7th, 2023, those of us in Gaza have been living inside one long night.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: Jimmy Gomez's office has been responsive to Emily's family and is advocating for her with the embassy. Please direct your calls now to Schiff and Padilla. If Gomez is your rep, you can give him a call to thank him for his support of Emily.

Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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typzk @typzk.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly this.

Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 4d

Eleven nations have agreed to recognize the state of Palestine in response to growing outrage over Israel's genocide. But the conditions imposed on Palestinians may play right into Israel's hands. Read Jonathan Shamir's analysis: jewishcurrents.org/the-recognit...

The Recognition Trick

By making Palestinian disarmament a prerequisite for statehood, Western countries are still facilitating Israel’s goals.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 2d

A necessary and heartbreaking view into Gaza: “here under the roar of planes, time folds in on itself; each second heavier than a year, each year only another breath of the same unending night. Life for us no longer breaks into seasons. Now survival is our singular measurement.”
-Abdullah Hany Daher

Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d

"Yesterday, the world’s calendars turned their neat page to October 7th, yet here in Gaza the clock broke long ago. Under the roar of planes, time folds in on itself."

A new piece by the Palestinian writer from Gaza, Abdullah Hany Daher
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A Time That Refuses to Pass

While the world marks two years since October 7th, 2023, those of us in Gaza have been living inside one long night.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 2d

Eli Valley on Bari Weiss’s appointment to lead the CBS newsroom. Looks about right. @elivalley.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d

"Some evenings, we speak of 'after the war.' But 'after' soon dissolves into questions that answers cannot quell: If the bombing stopped tomorrow and children could return to school, would their childhoods await them?"

A Time That Refuses to Pass

While the world marks two years since October 7th, 2023, those of us in Gaza have been living inside one long night.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d

"Yesterday, the world’s calendars turned their neat page to October 7th, yet here in Gaza the clock broke long ago. Under the roar of planes, time folds in on itself."

A new piece by the Palestinian writer from Gaza, Abdullah Hany Daher
jewishcurrents.org/a-time-that-...

A Time That Refuses to Pass

While the world marks two years since October 7th, 2023, those of us in Gaza have been living inside one long night.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 3d

Jewish Currents has learned that the Conscience flotilla, with
Emily Wilder aboard reporting for us, has been intercepted and boarded by the Israeli military. Communications with Emily and the rest of the boat have been cut. We are awaiting further updates.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 3d

"I communicate the suffering of the people—which is also my own suffering—because I feel it’s my responsibility to express this pain."

A conversation with Gazan poet Adel al-Ramadi on making art under genocide:

"An Elegy for All of Palestine"

The Gazan poet Adel al-Ramadi reflects on making art under genocide.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 3d

"I have published three poetry collections during the genocide, written under the shelling, the hunger, the debris, and through injury. I have written during the genocide because I have always written."

A conversation with Gazan poet Adel al-Ramadi: jewishcurrents.org/an-elegy-for...

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 3d

In a conversation with Maram Faraj, the Gazan poet Adel al-Ramadi reflects on making art under genocide.

"An Elegy for All of Palestine"

The Gazan poet Adel al-Ramadi reflects on making art under genocide.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 4d

"Western nations are amplifying the longstanding racist assumption that any actions of an armed Israeli state constitute 'self-defense' or 'security,' while a Palestinian equivalent will only ever engage in 'violence' that must be prevented." jewishcurrents.org/the-recognit...

The Recognition Trick

By making Palestinian disarmament a prerequisite for statehood, Western countries are still facilitating Israel’s goals.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 4d

Eleven nations have agreed to recognize the state of Palestine in response to growing outrage over Israel's genocide. But the conditions imposed on Palestinians may play right into Israel's hands. Read Jonathan Shamir's analysis: jewishcurrents.org/the-recognit...

The Recognition Trick

By making Palestinian disarmament a prerequisite for statehood, Western countries are still facilitating Israel’s goals.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 4d

In a new analysis piece, famine expert Alex de Waal explores how weaponized mass starvation has historically been used to engineer societal breakdown—and how Israel is now trying to reproduce this pattern in Gaza. Read here: jewishcurrents.org/famines-long...

Famine's Long Shadow

Even if food is surged into Gaza today, the history of weaponized mass starvation shows that the social aftershocks will reverberate for generations.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 7d

"The rise of mass solitary confinement in prisons across the United States was tied closely to the need for social control over 'turmoil' caused by mass civil rights protests, litigation, and changing societal attitudes toward inequities and racism."

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A Brief History of Solitary Confinement in America

The use of the punitive tactic exploded a century after US officials had deemed it too torturous.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 7d

Pro-Trump oligarchs are reshaping mainstream news in the right’s image. @alexbkane.bsky.social talks to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @karenattiah.bsky.social about what Jimmy Kimmel’s temporary removal from air signifies, and the role of independent media. Listen: jewishcurrents.org/the-media-go...

The Media Goes MAGA

Mehdi Hasan and Karen Attiah on how pro-Trump oligarchs are taking control of both mainstream and social media.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 9d

By the late 19th century, US officials had deemed solitary confinement too cruel. More than 100 years later, it became their go-to tactic. Read an excerpt from "Ending Isolation" by @chriswblackwell.bsky.com, Debbie Zalesne, @kwanetaharris.bsky.com, & Terry Kupers: jewishcurrents.org/a-brief-hist...

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 9d

As we prepare for Yom Kippur, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social ED Audrey Sasson & Rabbi Avigayil Halperin study several Jewish texts, exploring what teshuvah looks like for the crime of crimes, and what accountability could mean for complicit Jewish leadership.

Study guide also available at the link.

Is It Possible to Atone for Genocide?

An investigation through Jewish text on responsibility and culpability in the face of mass death.

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