for Friday, September 29, 2023

Holidays ›

0 Holidays History

How the succah comes to symbolise our diversity

Succot, the festival of dwelling in temporary booths, holds deep symbolic significance reflecting the diversity within Jewish tradition.

0 Holidays Culture

Why Sukkot is my favorite Jewish holiday

Jay Michaelson in Forward

Sukkot is described as a cherished Jewish holiday, distinct from others due to its emphasis on joy, nature, and earth-based rituals.

Politics ›

0 Politics Israel

Trump frustrated when told he couldn't leverage US aid to Israel for peace deal, book claims

Jacob Kornbluh in Forward

The article discusses former President Donald Trump's frustration when he was informed that he could not leverage U.S. military aid to Israel to negotiate a peace deal with the Palestinians, as detailed in a new book by Martin Baron.

Antisemitism ›

0 Antisemitism Politics

Israel’s new antisemitism envoy primed for battle in ‘ongoing war’

Lahav Harkov in Jewish Insider

Michal Cotler-Wunsh has been appointed as Israel's special envoy for combating antisemitism, a role reflecting the global rise in antisemitism and the need for coordinated international efforts.

Editors' Note

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by Matt Sienkiewicz

September 29's Short Reads

Forward What’s the difference between a $40 etrog and a $100 etrog? You’ll need to squint to find out.

Jewish Action Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe Roundup

Forward Why are all these Jewish leaders groveling to Elon Musk?

Jewish Currents Excerpt from Manhattan - "Who cared about the rest of the world? I had reading for all time."

Jewish Currents Light Among The Nations - For Yoram Hazony, the founder of the National Conservative movement, Israel is an illiberal model for the international nationalist brigade.

Jewish Currents Porzellan Manufaktur Allach - Robert Russell's recent exhibition exposes idyllic trinkets as sites of Nazi domination and imagination.

Jewish Currents Jenin -

Jewish Currents A Strangeness Inside Your Self - Hélène Cixous discusses writing as a woman, the meaning of Jewishness, and the impossibility of understanding.

Jewish Currents Meditations on Cixous - Four writers reflect on the feminist theorist’s work.

Jewish Currents After the Hit-and-Run - Can restorative justice offer crash victims like me—and the drivers who harmed us—the healing we need?

Jewish Currents Dream I Tell You - "It writes itself unanalyzed / The dream commands my hand"

Jewish Currents Reading Baldwin After Kanye - A conversation about James Baldwin’s 1967 essay, “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They are Anti-White.”

Jewish Currents Staging Resistance - In Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost, art prepares the ground of the self for the demands of collectivity.

Jewish Currents Kathy Ottersten - “You take the risk to save lives. Maybe that’s how you love people.”

Jewish Currents Two Paths for Diasporism - Daniel Boyarin's The No-State Solution seeks to revive the idea of Jews as a "diaspora nation," but reduces a powerful repository of political templates to a dissident subculture.

Tablet Need Help Building Your Sukkah?

Tablet Introducing Beautifully Jewish

Mishpacha Doña Gracia Mendes Nasí (ft. Miriam Wielgus)

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