
Mari Cohen
Mari Cohen
About Me
I'm a Brooklyn-based reporter, editor, and poet originally from Michigan.
I'm currently senior politics editor at Jewish Currents, a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left. I report on American Jewish institutional politics, Israel/Palestine, and the politics of antisemitism. I also manage and edit the magazine's contributions by incarcerated writers.
Previously, I covered the criminal legal system, public policy, media, transit, and more.
My reporting has received awards from the Wallace House Livingston Awards (finalist), the Religion News Association, the Association of Alternative News Media, the Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Awards, and (with a colleague) the New York Press Club. I've discussed my work on podcasts like Know Your Enemy, Citations Needed, Slate’s What Next and CBC’s Front Burner.
Selected Articles
"How Support for Palestine Became a Hate Crime," Jewish Currents, June 2025
"Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?", Jewish Currents, December 2024
"After the Hit-and-Run," Jewish Currents, September 2023
"The Fight for the Future of Israel Studies," Jewish Currents, September 2022
"Deborah Lipstadt vs. 'The Oldest Hatred,'" Jewish Currents, April 2022
"Revising the Dream," Jewish Currents, April 2021
"'Is He Jewish?'" Jewish Currents, March 2021
"Kim Foxx Aims to Rewrite an ‘Inequitable’ Legal Justice System as Challengers Fight to Topple Her," The Appeal, March 2020
"'The Big House and the Picket Fence,'" Chicago Reader, November 2019
"Chicago is America's News Lab," Columbia Journalism Review, October 2019
"Warning Bells," Chicago Reader, March 2019
"Hospital Withdrawal," Belt Magazine, February 2019
Poems
© 2017