Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine
The two-state solution is dead. It’s time for liberal Zionists to abandon Jewish–Palestinian separation and embrace equality.
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Some Notes on Jewish Lesbian Identity
“A poor Jew trying to climb out of her class learns to associate her lower-classness with her Jewishness (also her femaleness).”
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Against Analogy
To build solidarity in this moment, white Jews should resist the impulse to highlight similarities between histories of antisemitism and anti-Blackness.
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Translating Black Lives Matter into Yiddish
Amid an eruption of protests over police brutality, a Black performer of Yiddish music reflects on an attempt to “touch Blackness from inside Yiddish.”
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Honoring the Dead From a Distance
A socially distant taharah is an oxymoron that underscores the particular agony of this moment.
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On a Man’s Greatness
One of Israel’s most esteemed poets celebrates her teacher, scholar Paul Ernst Kahle, for his quiet heroism in Nazi Germany.
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How to Give Yourself an Abortion
A guide to self-managing abortion using misoprostol pills.
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The Homeless Radical
Daniel Bell was the prophet of a failed centrism. By the end of his life, he was revisiting the leftism of his youth.
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