Nora Caplan-Bricker
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Writer and editor @jewishcurrents / Not on here very much these days / nora @jewishcurrents .org or nora.caplanbricker @gmail .com
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Wrote about Annie Baker's experiments with time and attention, and about being reimmersed in the western Mass of my childhood in her gorgeous debut film, Janet Planet
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Don't think there's a paragraph in an essay anywhere that comes back to me more often than this one
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Beyond thrilled to join the staff at
@JewishCurrents
, a magazine I've had an intellectual crush on for a while. Pitch me reports, analysis, features, investigations, etc. at nora
@jewishcurrents
.org
Some news! Please welcome our two newest staffers:
Web Editor:
@NCaplanBricker
Managing Director:
@Joe_Roberts01
We are so excited to have both of them!
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Thrilled and flabbergasted to learn that my
@atavist
essay about monarch butterflies and climate grief will be in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing. My gratitude to journalistic hero
@edyong209
for selecting this piece, and to my incredible editor
@seywarddarby
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Extraordinarily proud that
@JewishCurrents
got to publish this important deep dive by
@aparna_gopalan
on how Hindu nationalist groups in the US have learned from—and been supported by—Israel-advocacy organizations.
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ICYMI, the NYT profiled the amazing
@ArielleLAngel
and
@JewishCurrents
. She’s a truly visionary editor, and I feel lucky every day to be part of this vital little magazine!
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I wrote about remote test-proctoring companies, which were among the big winners of the pandemic—and which may be hanging onto their gains despite sustained protest from students and countless reports that their software discriminates, for
@NewYorker
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Excellent piece from
@aparna_gopalan
about how the UAW betrayed its ceasefire call and undercut its fight for a more powerful, political labor movement
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“I will never know the full extent of what happened to my mother in the Nakba, but I can tell you that during the 47 years that I knew her, I never once saw this look in her eyes.”
A powerful photo essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the Nakba
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Really disheartened by all the misinformation about the PRO Act. Turning freelance media workers, a group of people with an outsized voice, against this bill would be a huge win for the corporate class. If you're worried about freelancing, please read this
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“We’ve had an exponential surge in requests for legal help,” said Radhika Sainath of Palestine Legal...Since October 8th, the group has responded to nearly 200 reports of “suppression of Palestinian rights advocacy”—almost as many incidents as they addressed in all of last year.
From university disciplinary hearings to death threats, supporters of Palestinian rights are facing a “McCarthyite backlash.”
@alexbkane
reports:
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For
@JewishCurrents
, I wrote about Sheila Heti's Pure Colour, which remakes the fable—a form used to pass ideas between generations—into a genre for the end of the world.
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This is a groundbreaking report from Peter Kuras on Germany's anti-antisemitism bureaucracy, which is grounded in a "commitment to Israel advocacy ... that requires disciplining the state’s Jewish critics as well as suppressing Palestinian speech."
An army of antisemitism commissioners was supposed to help Germany atone for its past. Critics say it is evidence of a memory effort gone haywire.
@plk
reports:
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In a rare exception to the rule that you should never meet your idols, I loved sitting down with Vivian Gornick for
@TheCut
(even when she essentially told me that she thinks we're all doomed)
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My first year in media, I lived in an unfinished basement that was all I could afford on my salary ($25k). I was really proud of myself for being so resourceful until I started having frequent asthma attacks from the damp. Paying workers a living wage should not be negotiable.
Today, the New Yorker Union is undertaking a twenty-four-hour work stoppage in protest of
@newyorker
management's egregious wage proposal. Our statement:
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DC statehood is one of the most crucial democracy reforms we could make. Since September, I've been Zooming with the activists who helped put DC on the national agenda, and are pushing hard to make statehood happen. I wrote about their work
@wpmagazine
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"We should all feel so proud of [this generation]. Everyone laughed at them; the Israeli occupation authorities counted on them not being politically aware. But they are the ones leading the protection of Jerusalem."
@danaelkurd
interviews
@FayrouzSharqawi
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Still not sure how to feel about The Rehearsal, but I loved being part of this conversation about it
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We've seen the risks of reopening colleges. I spoke to students for whom campus closures were a crisis. Thanks to my wonderful editor
@winterjessica
for helping me write about what colleges owe students who rely on them for housing and other basic needs
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“It’s helpful to think about the deep history of settler colonialism in North America…if you delink a lot of the conversational circuits we generally follow when it comes to guns…certain things become clearer.” A brilliant, sweeping conversation that brings so much into focus
My interview with
@PatBlanchfield
on the long history and present of US gun violence and the death drive. One of the best Digs yet, though perhaps not among the most hopeful.
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My
@JewishCurrents
colleague
@DavidKlion
spent months researching Putin confidante Roman Abramovich and his lavish giving to Jewish orgs. An urgent, eye-opening tour of how widely money linked to Putin's regime circulates
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The PRO Act "would give millions of 1099 independent contractors and freelancers the same right to organize that traditional W2 employees have."
@etammykim
on why the PRO Act is good for freelancers, with cameos from
@paythewriter
and
@FSP_NWU
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Came home last night to find this 💙🦋Unspeakably honored to be in this company, between these beautiful covers!
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In the gendered economy, women are perpetual debtors. I reviewed Kate Manne's new book, Entitled, for
@NewYorker
@pageturner
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I wrote about what the Housers of the Depression era have to do with the rent strikes of today, and how housing for all is a longstanding American dream
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So incredibly excited to share that
@JewishCurrents
is launching an investigative fund with support from The Puffin Foundation. Send us your big ideas at investigations
@jewishcurrents
.org
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Means a lot to have some writing in a journal that I have loved since the days when I used to steal it from my high school English classroom 😭 Thank you
@pshares
for giving a home to a piece I rewrote ~annually from 2015-2019—this essay and I did some growing up together
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Sometimes, when I feel overwhelmingly confused about what
#metoo
does or doesn’t mean or change, I like imagining people in the future making sense of it for us. I wrote
@NewYorker
about an amazing archive at Harvard that will make that possible
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I wish that the creators of Google Docs and Word would hear me out on the comparative strengths and failings of suggesting mode vs. track changes, so that together we could create one actually good program.
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The
@NYTmag
Letter of Rec column is one of my favorite things, so I couldn't be happier to recommend my no. 1 favorite subject, MY DOG, in this week's magazine.
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Beyond excited about all the possibilities opened up by this issue theme. Pitch us!
Our next themed issue will be on REST. Here's the call for proposals. Please share widely! Pitch deadline is April 30th.
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I've read so much about the torture that is solitary confinement, but nothing has brought it home to me like this package by incarcerated writers and artists. Essential work, coordinated and conceived by
@ChrisWBlackwell
and
@maricohen95
We're proud to publish "In the Hole," a composite memoir from five incarcerated writers that explores the horrors of solitary confinement. Intro'd by
@ChrisWBlackwell
w/ contributions from
@AaronOlson1986
@ANTOINEEDAVIS
@raywilliams80
@jonmkirkpatrick
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As
@jaboukie
says here, a lot of masculinity is "battle scars on your personality"—ideas that do a lot of violence to people.
It feels important to talk about other ways to be a man or masculine person—and doubly so to do it in the pages of
@GQMagazine
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Can’t totally articulate what it means to me to see this essay in a list of BAE notables compiled by
@alexanderchee
, whose essays I admire so deeply and have assigned to students in every creative nonfiction class I’ve ever taught
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This is the first print issue I've worked on since starting at JC, and I'm not sure I've ever been so proud of something I've helped make. (Turns out the solution to hating your own work might be to edit other people's...) Hope you'll check it out!!
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"Inflation is not an issue the left can afford to cede to technocrats, but rather a fundamental terrain of class struggle." Finally understand what inflation is and what the left can do about it thanks to the brilliant
@aparna_gopalan
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It was the fulfillment of a longtime dream to write about Katherine Dunn, whose prose rewired my brain the first time I read Geek Love—and a total privilege to do so for
@thenation
’s
@BooksandtheArts
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Finally had time to read this piece, and felt a little emotional reading this amazing scene—what an incredibly generous thing to do
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So excited to get my
@JewishCurrents
in the mail, and to have a little piece in here alongside so much amazing work
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I'm going to indulge in an end-of-year thread, partly to remind myself that I did spend some of this year writing, and not just hunched over my phone in terror/dread. (extra thanks to the editors who assigned me work in this year of stressing over lost income and lost purpose)
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A wild story about how the right is transforming education. The group that helped write the Holocaust ed. standards believes Jewish control of I/P will bring abt the end of days. They want "our children...to stand on what is Biblically expedient, not what is politically correct.”
In writing its new Holocaust education standards, Florida sought input from a right-wing Christian Zionist group that believes Christians have a “Biblical responsibility” to support Israel. Corey Sherman reports on the fight over the curriculum:
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Training your butt off for your first marathon and then getting knocked flat by the flu is a good reminder that trying hard and caring about things are mistakes
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Thank you so much
@lithub
for republishing this essay I wrote for
@the_point_mag
!! Writing 5k words about an embarrassing app addiction felt like kind of a self-own—very touched that it is at least relatable ❤️
"French’s fiction captures the talismanic power of a house as well as anything I’ve ever read."
@NCaplanBricker
on Tana French and the horror of real estate.
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So moved by this dispatch in
@JewishCurrents
about lost childhood in Gaza, by Kholoud Balata, a young essayist whose name the literary world should know
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Today my husband woke me up by saying, "if we ever need to kill someone, we shouldn't do it in the bathroom, because it's very hard to clean up red spatter in there." Everything smells like cough syrup, and I see what he means.
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supposed to spend two nights apart from my dog this weekend for the first time in 14 months and i'm just not sure that i physically can?
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The most ruthlessly observed essay I've read in a long time, and the most surprising, and the funniest. The fruits of
@bela6_bela
's god-eye in
@JewishCurrents
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To the bookseller who had never heard of Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch, or New York Review Books but told me that my mother would love this novel by a local author that made him want to “hug every older woman I know”… thanks
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A friend referred to the dog’s snuggle style as “The Scarf,” and so he shall now be known
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Absolutely can't wait for this conversation with several of my favorite critics. Please join us!
Very excited to be a part of this special
@bookcritics
panel on "Labor and Literary Criticism" w/
@NCaplanBricker
,
@z_hu__
, & E. Tammy Kim. We'll be talking our approaches to reviewing books with strong labor and class themes. RSVP here:
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If you want more context for what's happening in Jerusalem, you can come to this event at noon today
Israeli settlers are forcibly removing Palestinians from their homes in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
Join us on Tues, May 11, at 12 pm ET for a discussion of the current moment, Jerusalem's long and fraught history, and what may lie in its future:
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My bro took these glam shots of my weird ridiculous beautiful dog
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“This ghoulish natalism…is, in the end, an anti-life position. It cares solely for the quantitative rather than qualitative dimensions of life…missing everything that matters about life as it is actually lived: life in particular.”
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Thank you to
@the_point_mag
for letting me go long on my pandemic guilty pleasures: murder mysteries and real estate apps, which I've decided have more in common than you might think
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Tenants here in Providence are having their leases terminated after organizing for livable conditions
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I wrote about Curtis Sittenfeld's “Rodham,” the uses and temptations of political fantasy, and what we can (and can't) learn from indulging in a counterfactual
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It’s raining and I have to go to New York tomorrow so of course my mother is urging me to obtain an item of clothing called “rain pants”
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I wrote about my obsession with Audible, the buddy our tech overlords have granted me in the lonely life of perma-lancing that they help to impose.
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When I was a freelancer,
@FSP_NWU
transformed my sense of what's possible in our industry. I love working at
@JewishCurrents
in large part because of our commitment to raising labor standards for freelancers, and for all media workers. Very happy to share this news today ✨✨✨
We are excited to announce a new freelancer agreement, developed in consultation with
@FSP_NWU
! You can read our new guidelines here:
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I've been thinking about this story--with the wonderful
@seywarddarby
--for almost a year. It's about monarch butterflies, the people who love them, and the environmental grief we all live with. The team at the
@atavist
made this gorgeous trailer
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Come work with me! We're hiring an assistant editor to (mostly) write and (also) edit for both web and print.
You don't have to be Jewish, and Jewish life doesn't have to be your beat. If you want to think deeply about stories and ideas with a great group of people, apply!
🚨
@JewishCurrents
is HIRING for an assistant editor position and a development director position. 🚨
(Reminder that you do not have to be Jewish to work at Jewish Currents.)
Help us get the word out! 🙏
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I like all of Sally Rooney’s writing, including and especially this statement:
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Stole some time from editing to write something for this issue—about a pair of novels I have pushed on many friends and a set of questions I'll probably never stop turning over
In reviews,
@NCaplanBricker
considers the novels of Isabella Hammad, asking how art might prepare the individual for the political demands of collectivity.
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“Shoval’s presence at an institution like Princeton gives him and his ideas credibility and legitimacy that he might otherwise lack.”
smart piece from
@krutkovich
and
@la_vie_en_rosen
about the Israeli right laundering its ideas via the Ivy League
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Happy Halloween!!!!! 😈😈😈
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Thank you so much
@bookmarksreads
@lithub
for inviting me to blather about books in this week's "Secrets of the Book Critics"!!
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It was a privilege as always to get to work with
@winterjessica
, who made this piece so much smarter and sharper
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Finally sharing this piece from the summer about Isabella Hammad's gorgeous Enter Ghost, which explores how art can offer a staging ground for political feeling and a way to access political will.
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Sending a message to any other paper towels out there that might have considered cleaning up after her
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One of my favorite parts of 2022 was writing this essay with my colleagues, thinking about the anti-work theorists' injunction to "get a life" & about the contradictions that arise when work is "not only a means to life but also the stuff of life itself"
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This is a big problem that I wrote about a few years ago! The answer is not encouraging lol
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Essential essay by
@4noura
&
@SeanMac_R
that rejects a rights-based definition of apartheid for a radical one.
"Proclaiming an end to apartheid w/out instituting a program of decolonization...may simply produce a more acceptable form of discrimination."
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So grateful to have
@MaryaHannun
and
@MejganMassoumi
in the JC newsletter talking about Afghanistan, false narratives, and the instrumentalization of women's rights. Especially moved by this section, about Afghan resistance.
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this sucks so incredibly hard. have loved reading this magazine since i was a teenager--at every stage of my writing life, it has expanded my sense of what the essay can do!
BREAKING: UNLV and
@BlackMtnInst
announced
@believermag
will publish its final issue, No. 139, in February/March 2022. "The Believer consumed a significant portion of BMI's resources... there was no path forward to continue publishing the magazine."
Full release below.
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This hit a nerve lol. For those who actually read the piece, I also recommend
@JeffSchuhrke
on the connection btwn UAW workers + Israel's war on Gaza
And, on why pressuring Biden for ceasefire is in labor's interest,
@alexnpress
Excellent piece from
@aparna_gopalan
about how the UAW betrayed its ceasefire call and undercut its fight for a more powerful, political labor movement
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Could barely sleep last night for raging about these UMass students who engineered a homophobic smear campaign against Alex Morse... in the hopes of getting a job with his opponent.
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"Since the uprisings of May 2021, the Naqab’s Palestinian population has increasingly become part of the wider Palestinian mobilization." Read the great
@DaliaHatuqa
on this winter's protests in the Naqab
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Strange to share this piece—begun in a different lifetime—but I'm glad it's out in the world.
Thanks to the wonderful
@seywarddarby
for helping me tell this story about a butterfly and make some sense of my grief and powerlessness—about climate change and so much else
Issue 103: A butterfly named Flamingo, an epic migration, and the crusade to save one of America’s most iconic species.
@NCaplanBricker
#longreads
#science
#sciencetwitter
#climatechange
#environment
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No feature writer working today buries themselves deeper in the complexities of a topic than
@maricohen95
. From
@JewishCurrents
' summer issue, she has the definitive dive into the activist origins of Israel studies and the fight for the future of the field
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A completely normal and fine list compiled by the great
@SophieHaigney
I wrote about some very bad children’s books that have come to dominate the market for
@thedrift_mag
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Got a lot out of reading Michael Berlin on the disappointments of the UC strike and the limitations of any unionism that embraces "internal hierarchy, loyalty to the Democratic Party, and an acceptance of the existing boundaries of labor law"
"These tactics point to a mode of organization that bases its legitimacy not on the existing limits of unionism, but on its ability to meet the needs of its members."
How the recent strikes at the UC showed the need to democratize the labor movement:
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A convo about Jewish "intermarriage" in which, among many other things,
@nathangoldman
talks about Kafka, & I talk about drunk-crying over what to name my hypothetical children.
In other words, a wide-ranging discussion that I loved having & have been thinking about ever since!
The Jewish Currents editorial staff discusses "intermarriage":
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HIGHLY recommend
@alexbkane
's piece on Rep. Ritchie Torres and the future of pro-Israel politics in the Democratic Party—a super illuminating read on how not only the Israel lobby but the broader Dem establishment seeks surrogates with progressive cred to uphold the status quo
NEW from me:
@RitchieTorres
& the future of pro-Israel politics. His unique story—rising from poverty, battling homophobia, winning power—makes him the Israel lobby's ideal messenger. That's also meant Torres turning his back on Israeli apartheid's victims
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So excited to share what we've been working on all summer! 🐮💫
Our Fall issue is here! Subscribers can now read all of our print content online, before it becomes available to everyone. Subscribe using the code X30FALL for a 30% discount! Here’s some of what you’ll find inside the magazine, arriving in mailboxes soon:
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For this week's Shabbat Reading List, I wrote about loving both Boston and Elizabeth Hardwick's takedown of Boston
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I wrote about the book Full Surrogacy Now, a utopian argument for abolishing the family and understanding that we are all "the makers of one another," for
@newrepublic
.
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.
@tom_stackpole
and I ran our first marathon on Monday and I still can’t walk down stairs, but the one who’s really suffering is our dog, who doesn’t understand why his humans are so lame and sedentary right now
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Very excited to come to town for this, hope to see all my NYC friends there!!!!!
🚨NYC IRL ISSUE RELEASE PARTY🚨
Register here 👇 We've missed you!
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All my favorite book blogs got me excited about THREE WOMEN, which comes out this week, but I found it to be the most frustrating book I've read this year. Thank you
@jesslbergman
@thebafflermag
for letting me articulate my aggravation!
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It was such an incredible privilege and pleasure—and education—to work on this issue. Horrified by the world it's coming out into, but I hope its contents—contributed by many brilliant writers, scholars, and artists—will be especially useful in this moment
We are so excited to announce the release of The Soviet Issue, a special double issue dedicated to the experiences of post-Soviet Jews.
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T-40 mins until I am reunited with my cute dog ❤️🎉
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Read Alex's indispensable scoop on the State Department approving a new bombs sale to Israel. The humanitarian aid announced today is "a Band-Aid on a bullet wound, and the US is paying for the Band-Aid, the bullet, and the gun.”
JC needs a bajillion dollars so we can continue doing this work!!!
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I love Camila Valle’s conversation with Mabel Bellucci about abortion activism in Argentina, esp this on confrontational street actions that go “straight to the doors of those responsible”—a tactic that provoked so much backlash in the US this summer
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