Judaism
‘Our grief is not a weapon’: Progressive U.S. Jewish leaders demand Gaza ceasefire
October 18, 2023Brooklyn rabbi: “We are grieving, but we are fighting to prevent genocide. Our grief is not a weapon.”
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The Jewish Labor Bund, a history in comic book form
October 17, 2023The Bund is no great mystery to serious students of modern Jewish history, though a full understanding of its achievements may still be limited to those who can read Yiddish.
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Cine Liberación: El cine revolucionario que necesitamos
May 1, 2023En su manifiesto de 1969, Hacia un Tercer Cine, los cineastas argentinos Fernando Solanas y Octavio Getino definieron el Tercer Cine como “un cine de liberación” que se oponía a los valores del primer y segundo...
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The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: After 80 years, new photographs emerge
April 13, 2023In January, Warsaw’s Jewish history museum presented a group of photographs taken in secret during the uprising, some of which have never been seen before.
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Book review and response: ‘People Love Dead Jews’
January 4, 2023These essays touching on the overall theme—“reports,” with a more corroborated affidavit —were mostly published in other venues before coming together as a book of 12 fascinating, elegantly argued chapters.
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