On the Nose

    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.

  • Scrutinizing the Gaza Ceasefire Deal

  • Voices from Gaza

  • Preparing for Trump’s Repression

  • Jesse Eisenberg's Holocaust Road Trip

  • Volatile Emotions

  • Bipartisan Empire: Foreign Policy, Regional War, and the 2024 Election

  • The Other ADLs

  • What Ta-Nehisi Coates Saw

  • Palestinian Liberation After the Destruction of Gaza

  • "Between the Covers" Live: Dionne Brand and Adania Shibli

  • "The Dig" Live: Internationalism After Third Worldism

  • Talking About Antisemitism

  • The Killing of Ismail Haniyeh

  • The Escalating Regional War

  • Chevruta: Voting

  • J.D. Vance’s Foreign Policy Vision

  • The Fraught Promise of Arab-Jewish Identity

  • Jamaal Bowman’s Primary Loss

  • “Beyond the Capacity of English to See”

  • Synagogue Struggles

  • Religion, Secularism, and the Jewish Left

  • The End of "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

  • On Zionism and Anti-Zionism

  • Controversy at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • Chevruta: Understanding Aaron Bushnell’s Sacrifice

  • Jewish Organizing at Columbia’s Encampment

  • Unpacking the Campus Antisemitism Narrative

  • Campus Politics Takes the Stage in "The Ally"

  • Language, the Media, and Palestine

  • Hindu Nationalism’s New Temple

  • Israel’s Emerging Religious Left

  • Charging Israel with Genocide

  • Labor’s Palestine Paradox

  • Bonus Episode: Mailbag

  • Hamas: Past, Present, and Future

  • Talking to Our Families

  • Naomi Klein on Israel’s “Doppelganger Politics”

  • Cori Bush’s Ceasefire Plea

  • A Surge in American Jewish Left Organizing

  • The Loneliness of the Israeli Left

  • "Unsettled" After October 7th

  • Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL, with "Know Your Enemy"

  • Trans Halakha

  • Nosegate

  • The Jewishness of “Oppenheimer”

  • Camp Kinderland at 100

  • Chevruta: Be Fruitful and Multiply?

  • What Indian Ethnonationalists Learned From Israel Advocates

  • The Struggle to Stop Cop City

  • The Plight of Masafer Yatta

  • The Agony and the Ecstasy of "Jewish Matchmaking"

  • Still No Justice for Shireen Abu Akleh

  • Fighting Anti-Trans Legislation in Missouri

  • The Politics of "The Last of Us"

  • Unpacking Israel’s Political Crisis

  • Two Paths for the Jewish Bachelor Contestant

  • The Trouble with Germany, Part II

  • Representation and Exclusion at Israel’s Anti-Government Protests

  • You People

  • Fables and Lies

  • Chevruta: Debt

  • Who Is Tom Stoppard’s “Jewish Play” For?

  • The Meaning of Apartheid

  • “The Jews”

  • Victory for Netanyahu’s Far-Right Alliance

  • Ye

  • Gaza Under Blockade

  • Yeshiva Education

  • Mom Save America

  • Documenting the Struggle

  • The Scream Clarifies an Elsewhere

  • The Trouble with Germany, Part 1

  • ¡Inquilinos Unidos, Jamás Serán Vencidos!

  • The Mapping Project

  • The Age of No Revolutions

  • The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

  • Campus Wars

  • A Surge of Violence in Israel/Palestine

  • Volodymyr Zelensky and Post-Soviet Jewishness

  • The Assault on Trans and Reproductive Rights

  • I Want to Believe

  • The Black-Jewish Relations Industrial Complex

  • Whose West Side Story?

  • After Colleyville

  • Jamaal Bowman and DSA

  • What Does the Record Show?

  • Israel's Attack on Palestinian Civil Society

  • Sunrise, Sunset

  • West Bank Politics

  • The Use and Abuse of “Jewish Peoplehood”

  • Political Depression

  • Rallies, Surveys, and Ice Cream

  • Couples Therapy

  • Jewish Feelings

  • In This Moment & Tough Conversations

  • On the Nose

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