A summary of what's going on in Gaza atm:
This morning, fighters from Gaza carried out an operation that took Israeli by surprise, reaching Sderot, and taking Israeli hostages amidst a barrage of rocket fire. 🧵

I'm excited to say a very personal piece I spent months reporting is now available for JC subscribers! (Or you can get it in print in a couple weeks.) I'm very grateful to those who shared their experience with me for this piece. jewishcurrents.org/after-the-hit-…

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

So excited to share what we've been working on all summer! 🐮💫

So excited to work with Fargo this year!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Reupping this piece, and this 🔥 paragraph

I was at the edge of my seat all the way through editing this lyrical, potent Erik Baker essay, which connects the dots between labor's storied past and the glorious future it could portend, if we could only nurture the spirit of refusal strikes carry:
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'To realize the vision of workplace democracy at the heart of today’s union reform movement, labor activists must reclaim an inherently political understanding of striking—not as a necessary evil but as a positive good.' A powerful call to revalue the strike from Erik Baker

An essential dispatch and analysis of Biden’s policy on Israel-Palestine, and why its principal legacy will be to help consolidate Israel’s apartheid regime. Bravo to its author Alex Kane and Jewish Currents. jewishcurrents.org/bidens-legacy-…

Our team talked to more than two dozen migrant teenagers who said they worked in seafood processing plants in New Bedford, MA.

One case manager said: “They’re not living the American dream. They’re living the American nightmare.”

Co-reported with Nadine Sebai and Bruce Gil.

Today, we're republishing three comics from Tits & Clits, the most irreverent of the underground women's anthologies of the 1970s, with a wonderful intro from Jillian Steinhauer Enjoy!

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My first piece for Jewish Currents is out! I wrote about Aliza Nisenbaum's sumptuous paintings, currently on view at Queens Museum, and her politics of interpersonal relationships. This will also be in print in the next issue.
jewishcurrents.org/portraits-of-e…

'Somehow, with their careful arrangements and luminous color, the murals capture something essential about both relationships and politics: how we come together to build something bigger than ourselves, and then, all too quickly, how we come apart.' 💙

NEW: Elisheva Goldberg talks to Israeli women's rights activists about the new law set to mete out unequal punishment to Jewish and Arab perpetrators of sexual crimes:
jewishcurrents.org/israels-anti-m…

RI progressives are winning BIG in the state legislature. What did we accomplish last session? Where did we fall short? What are we fighting for in 2024? Join Tiara Mack, Cherie Cruz, RI State Rep. David Morales 🌹 at Columbus Theatre, Thursday August 24 6:30 PM! actionnetwork.org/events/2023-le…

Very excited for tomorrow's conversation! Don't forget to RSVP.

We're also going to be discussing some of our recent reviews that addressed these themes. I'll link them in a thread below.

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'In Jaffe’s books, marriage and motherhood are often not the prerequisites of successful adult womanhood, but rather the guarantors of a kind of perpetual adolescence—a lifetime of being sent to your room.' Too many perfect lines to count in this Jess Bergman piece on Rona Jaffe

wrote about Barbie 🍭
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Our podcast, On the Nose, is going to do its first mailbag episode, which we'll record late next week! Send anything at all you'd like to ask us to [email protected], subj: MAILBAG. If you want to be on the air, send voice notes with a summary in the body of the email.

We'd like to invite you to a discussion we're co-sponsoring with Freelance Solidarity Project and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at The City University of New York about labor and literary criticism, featuring Adam Dalva, E. Tammy Kim, Nora Caplan-Bricker, zoe hu, and Jennifer Wilson: bookcritics.org/event/labor-an…