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Jewish Currents

Creator

Jewish Currents

Scope and Contents

The online presence of Jewish Currents magazine provides links to the magazine's online articles, full issues, podcasts, newsletters, events, videos of livestreamed events, subscription information, and promotion of the magazine's articles on Twitter, X, and Instagram. The social media also includes engagement with other topics and accounts related to the Jewish left. Additionally, the Jewish Currents Editor's blog contains blog posts by Lawrence Bush, editor of Jewish Currents from 2003-2018. The blog contains poetry, political commentary, Jewish history and holidays, calls for submissions to the magazine, event publicity, information on his book, Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist, and other posts related to Judaism.

Historical Note

Jewish Currents is an online and in-print magazine that covers subjects vital to American Jewish leftists, including "the uses and misuses of antisemitism, the inner workings of Jewish communal organizations, the politics of Israel/Palestine on the ground and internationally, race and racialization, strategies and horizons of American left movements, the global rise of the far right, diasporic cultural expression, labor, climate, incarceration, immigration, and feminism." The magazine was founded 1946 by Jewish communists.

Accruals

Most websites are accrued quarterly. YouTube is accrued semiannually.

Appraisal

Scope was expanded to include Amazon Web Services documents.

Jewschool

Creator

Jewschool

Historical Note

Jewschool is an online blogging community and website that identifies itself as the largest and longest running progressive Jewish blog online. It has been in operation since 2002 and publishes opinion pieces and editorial writing on a range of topics from global politics, to identity and culture, to religion.

Accruals

Website is accrued every other month.

Appraisal

Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of jewschool.com in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored. Pinterest was blocked.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Archive-It IP is occasionally blocked by site owner and page is not crawled.

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