Arielle Angel

Angel grew up in Miami. Her father's family survived the Holocaust, specifically Auschwitz concentration camp, and her mother's side of the family were Arab Jews who came from Haifa.{{Cite news |last=Amanpour |first=Christiane |date=October 23, 2024 |title=Interview with Jewish Currents Editor-in-Chief Arielle Angel. |work=Amanpour; New York : CQ Roll Call |id={{ProQuest| }}}} Her mother was a judge and then reproductive rights advocate, and her father was an entrepreneur.{{Cite news |last=Lewis-Kraus |first=Gideon |date=2024-09-09 |title=The Angst and Sorrow of Jewish Currents |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/16/the-angst-and-sorrow-of-jewish-currents |access-date=2024-09-11 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X |archive-date=2024-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911010754/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/16/the-angst-and-sorrow-of-jewish-currents |url-status=live }} She attended a Jewish day school and then public high school, where she edited the school's newspaper. While in high school she traveled to former concentration camps in Poland as part of a March of the Living trip. After high school she moved to New York where she attended art school, at New York University.{{Cite news |last=Fernandez |first=Manny |date=26 April 2004 |title=For Some Believers, a Cause Across Generations; Throngs of Like-Minded Revel in Commonality |work=The Washington Post ; Washington, D.C.. |page=A11 |id={{ProQuest| }}}} During the 2014 Gaza War Angel came across photos of Israelis sitting and watching bombs hit Gaza, and the images made her consider her past convictions about Israel.{{Cite news |last=Leon |first=Holly |date=15 October 2024 |title=Die zerrissene Diaspora: New York war schon immer ein Zentrum für linke Juden. Heute sind es vor allem junge Menschen, die sich dort vermehrt mit den Palästinensern solidarisieren. Während die einen den Staat Israel in seiner jetzigen Form komplett ablehnen, vertreten andere weniger radikale Ansichten |work=Die Tageszeitung ; Berlin |pages=4–5 |language=de |id={{ProQuest| }}}}

Angel's early work as a writer was on an unpublished manuscript about a drug dealer.

In 2018, Angel joined Jewish Currents as literary editor.{{cite news |last1=Dolsten |first1=Josefin |title=72-year-old left-wing magazine Jewish Currents aims for millennials |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/72-year-old-left-wing-magazine-jewish-currents-aims-for-millennials/ |access-date=30 October 2023 |work=Times of Israel |date=2018 |archive-date=11 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911010749/https://www.timesofisrael.com/72-year-old-left-wing-magazine-jewish-currents-aims-for-millennials/ |url-status=live }} She went on to become its editor-in-chief.{{Cite news |last=Goldberg |first=Emma |date=2022-12-30 |title=She's Building a Little Jewish Magazine on Big Ideas |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/style/arielle-angel-jewish-currents-magazine.html |access-date=2023-10-30 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2023-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207171214/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/style/arielle-angel-jewish-currents-magazine.html |url-status=live }}

Angel is an organizer with IfNotNow. In 2024 she talked on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation podcast about her experiences visiting university campuses during the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses.{{Cite news |date=April 29, 2024 |title=The growing wave of campus protests |work=Front Burner; Toronto : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|id={{ProQuest| }}}} By 2024 Angel described herself as anti-Zionist, with the recognition that it took a long time for her to make this change.

• {{Cite web |last=Angel |first=Arielle |date=2017-10-23 |title=Primed for Mysticism and Scared to Death |url=https://www.guernicamag.com/primed-mysticism-scared-death/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Guernica |language=en-US}}
• {{Cite news |last=Angel |first=Arielle |date=May 11, 2024 |title=Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they're part of a rightwing plan |work=The Guardian (Online) Guardian News & Media Limited. |id={{ProQuest| }}}}
• {{Cite web |last=Angel |first=Arielle |date=Summer 2024 |title=Florida Is Everywhere |url=https://jewishcurrents.org/florida-is-everywhere |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Jewish Currents |language=en}}

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