After eight years as editor in chief of Jewish Currents, Arielle Angel has stepped down. Under her leadership, the magazine has become one of the most influential voices on the Jewish left, shaping how a generation thinks about Jewish life, Zionism, Palestine, and the failure of mainstream Jewish institutions.

This conversation is a chance to hear what she has learned as she has spent nearly a decade in the trenches of Jewish public life, writing and editing through Gaza 2014, the Trump years, October 7th and its aftermath, and the slow unraveling of American Jewish institutional consensus on Israel. She has highlighted both grief and rage without blunting either, and she has held to the conviction that honesty is itself a catalyst.

Rabbi Andy Kahn sits down with Arielle to ask what eight years in the work have taught her, and what she can teach us. We'll learn what she has come to know about hope, despair, the Jewish landscape now, and what she wants us to carry forward.

Optimism of the Will: Arielle Angel on 8 years of Jewish Currents