Even as there are many who will roll their eyes and say, “Yes, of course, we knew from the beginning,” there is, for me, still something profoundly difficult and profoundly sad about this moment. For […]
Category: To American Jews
Young Leftist Jews Standing with the Black South in 1964 and in 2014
Yesterday, I wrote a piece called “The Jewish Left is Alive and Vibrant” in the Jewish Daily Forward as a response to Jay Michaelson’s piece in the same paper, “Death of the Jewish Left.” In my piece, […]
Why J Street’s Rejection from the Conference of Presidents is a Good Thing
Last week, when J Street’s bid for acceptance into the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations was rejected ”badly” as the Jewish Daily Forward put it, receiving only 17 of the needed 34 […]
BREAKING NEWS: Hillel International Revises Campus Guidelines*
The student-led initiative Open Hillel was launched to question Hillel International’s “Israel Guidelines,” and has taken root on campuses like Swarthmore, Vassar and, most recently, Wesleyan, and is making additional waves on campuses around the country like Berkeley and […]
The Leftern Wall 