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The controversies and arguments over the new Jewish Currents issue (both the responsa on anti-antisemitism and the INN article) are a sign of a healthy Jewish left, and indeed how

The insistence to say what Trump did yesterday vis-a-vis the Proud Boys was "failing to rebuke white supremacists" is actively harmful. He didn't "fail to rebuke" the Proud Boys. He

Last weekend, we were talking about where folks can donate money, and I recommended @dreamprojectVA, which has been busy giving out tens of thousands of dollars to undocumented families in

I'm very excited to be joining @USofDisaster's #COVIDcalls tonight with @germsinhistory to talk about pandemic and disaster history. We start at 5 Eastern Time, and you can join in via

What with all the plagues and whatnot, it's been hard for me to focus on Passover. I finally finished my haggadah revisions this morning, putting in some more plague content,

The specter of burying Covid dead in city parks reminds me a lot of Sarajevo, where nearly every park, every patch of green, has grave markers from the siege. https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/nyc-to-begin-temporarily-burying-coronavirus-victims-in-local

This is a harder question than it appears, but I’ll take a stab at it.https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1247142520024260609 When people ask this question, what they often want (not necessarily @gregggonsalves) is historical analogues.