In this episode, Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel, editor-at-large Peter Beinart, associate editor Mari Cohen, and senior editor Nathan Goldman answer reader questions. They discuss the challenge of sustaining Jewish social reproduction outside of Zionism; the attachment to putting out a print magazine; the difficulties of comparing genocides; the discomforts of subscribing to the free Jewish children’s book service PJ Library; and the perils of regarding Zionism as a singular, unparalleled evil. 

Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”

Media Mentioned and Further Reading

“Reclaiming a Minor Literature,” Maya Rosen, Jewish Currents

“We Need New Jewish Institutions,” Arielle Angel, Jewish Currents

“What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Intermarriage,’” Jewish Currents staff roundtable, Jewish Currents

The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance by Shaul Magid

The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto by Daniel Boyarin

“Against Analogy,” Ben Ratskoff, Jewish Currents

“The Law Cannot Let Itself See the Nakba,” Joshua Abramson Cohen’s interview with Rabea Eghbariah, Jewish Currents

“Living with the Holocaust: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors,” Sara Roy, Institute for Palestine Studies

“Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?”, Mari Cohen, Jewish Currents

Sammy Spider’s First Yom Kippur by Sylvia Rouss

“Tell PJ Library: Zionism is Not Judaism!” petition

“Rhetoric Without Reckoning,” Simone Zimmerman, Jewish Currents

“History Lesson,” Laleh Khalili, Jewish Currents

“A Logic of Elimination,” Abe Silberstein’s interview with Lorenzo Veracini on settler colonialism, Jewish Currents