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On the Nose is a biweekly podcast by Jewish Currents, a magazine of the Jewish left founded in 1946. The editorial staff discusses the politics, culture, and questions that animate today’s Jewish left.
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- The Inheritance of Defeat · 51 min · Episode 162From the Shoah to McCarthyism to the failures of the New Left, it has been a long 20th century for radical Jews. Each new iteration of the Jewish left finds itself building on a…
- The Impact of American Zionism on American Islamophobia · 56 min · Episode 161Seasons of Fury, a new book by the journalist Rozina Ali, tells a sweeping history of American Islamophobia through narrative reporting on four American Muslim families with…
- Fact Versus Fiction in Claims About Antisemitism in Publishing · 1 t 8 min · Episode 160On July 9th, PEN America published an article called “A Silent Moratorium,” which asserts that Jewish and Israeli writers face “blatant hostility, discrimination, and hate” and…
- Naza and the Function of Perpetrator Cinema · 59 min · Episode 159Naza, a film by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, features interviews with 24 members of elite intelligence units in the Israeli military describing the mechanics…
- Slam Frank's Hall of Mirrors · 52 min · Episode 158Slam Frank—the satirical play about a Latina “Anita Franco” stuck in the attic with a colorblind cast (à la Hamilton) of daft identitarians—reopened last week Off-Broadway at the…
- Kol Nidre's Sacred Border Crossings · 48 min · Episode 157As we make our way through the Days of Awe, On the Nose is turning over our feed to an episode of Ways of Awe, an exploration of the high holiday liturgy written by artist and…
- UK Sanctions Settlements · 53 min · Episode 156On September 8th, the UK announced sanctions against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including an import trade ban, sanctions on companies and individuals, bans on…
- Fighting the Politics of Powerlessness · 1 t 3 min · Episode 155Organizing is hard, not just for the ways we are knocked down by our opponents, but also for the ways we often turn on our comrades in anger and despair. In the recently…
- TEASER: The Myth of the “Good Guy at the Checkpoint” · 4 min · Episode 155This episode of On the Nose is for subscribers and members only. Subscribe for $4/month here. If you’re already a subscriber, check your email for instructions on accessing this…
- Repetition and Solipsism in the “Israel Debate” Play · 56 min · Episode 154After a few years of seeing Jewish plays “debating” Israel/Palestine, Jewish Currents editor-at-large Arielle Angel and theater critic Alisa Solomon explored the phenomenon…
- Who Speaks for Black Voters? · 56 min · Episode 153Progressive outsider candidate Abdul El-Sayed narrowly prevailed over establishment pick Haley Stevens to win the Democratic nomination for Michigan’s open Senate seat, though…
- Genocide Studies Departments Still Can’t Name Genocide in Gaza · 46 min · Episode 152In early June 2024, the Holocaust historian Raz Segal was offered a job directing the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota after roundly…
- Here Where We Live Is Our Country · 52 min · Episode 151The resounding success of Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple’s vividly told and extensively researched history of the Jewish Labor Bund—a socialist group founded…
- The Event · 1 t 16 min · Episode 150A strange fire has consumed the land between the river and the sea. Fiction by Henry Bean from our Fall 2025 issue. "The Event" was written by Henry Bean and edited for the page…
- TEASER: The Hazing of Scott Wiener · 4 min · Episode 150This episode of On the Nose is for subscribers and members only. Subscribe for $4/month here. If you're already a subscriber, check your email for instructions on accessing this…
- “Democracy and Asylum Rise and Fall Together” · 41 min · Episode 149Last week, the Supreme Court ruled on several issues related to immigration policy. While the court narrowly preserved birthright citizenship, it issued other rulings that will…
- Nadav Lapid Faces “No” · 39 min · Episode 148Over the last couple weeks, there has been an enormous amount written—from The New York Times to Le Monde to Haaretz, among other places—about a controversy centered on Nadav…
- Politics and the Jewish Body · 53 min · Episode 147In the latest issue of Jewish Currents, we published a piece called “Does the Jewish Body Keep the Score?” by Jon Danforth-Appell, which looks at three recent left-wing books…
- The Israel Day Parade Debacle · 43 min · Episode 146Last Sunday, New York City officials took part in the annual Israel Day Parade on Fifth Avenue. Mayor Zohran Mamdani was notably absent, insisting that this was not a “Jewish…
- Sally Rooney in Hebrew · 46 min · Episode 145In 2021, famed Irish author Sally Rooney declined to publish her book in Israel because there was no BDS-compliant publisher. At the time, she said she would be “pleased and…
