Fall 2023

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The cover image by Gabrielle Egnater depicts a wearable golden calf. Inside the issue, Suzanne Schneider writes about the emerging National Conservative movement, whose founder Yoram Hazony sees Israel as a model for right-wing states around the globe. Mari Cohen explores a new effort to offer restorative justice to victims of traffic violenceand tries to come to terms with her feelings toward the person who hit her with a car and fled the scene two years ago. And in a deep-dive report, Alex Kane digs into the Biden administrations refusal to rethink the USIsrael relationship despite the extremism of Israels government. A special folio about the francophone feminist theorist Hlne Cixous features a wide-ranging conversation between Cixous and Claire Schwartz; meditations by Jo Mrelli, aracelis girmay, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Jules Gill-Peterson; an original song by the band DAYS; and fiction by Cixous herself. Were also republishing James Baldwins classic essay on the fraught relationships between Black and Jewish communities, along with a roundtable discussion between nyle fort, Marc Lamont Hill, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and Ben Ratskoff, moderated by Daniel May. In arts, Jillian Steinhauer profiles Aliza Nisenbaum, whose portraits of immigrant communities ask us to reflect on the politics of our personal encounters, while Rotem Rozental examines Robert Russells unnerving representations of Nazi trinkets. And in reviews, Nora Caplan-Bricker considers the novels of Isabella Hammad, asking how art might prepare the individual for the political demands of collectivity, and Julie E. Cooper takes on Daniel Boyarins The No-State Solution, an attempt to revive the theoretical tradition of diaspora nationalism for the contemporary Jewish left. Plus, poems from Momtaza Mehri and Joyce Mansour, a comic from Eli Valley, and more!

(Vol. 78, No. 1)