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Category Archives: Essay
Policing the Borders of Suffering
When it comes to concentration camps and other carceral spaces, the debate over vocabulary lays bare the inconsistencies in our fights for justice.
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If You Prick Watto, Does He Not Bleed?
Twenty years after The Phantom Menace, an antisemitic caricature reconsidered.
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Hebrew Schools Are Failing Jewish Kids
Pro-Israel propaganda has supplanted a meaningful Jewish education.
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The Forward’s “Both Sides” Approach Has Failed
How an editor’s handling of the Omar controversy alienated Jews of color.
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The Sabbath, an Island in Time, Under Attack
Finding solace in ritual after Poway and Pittsburgh.
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The Electoral College Erases the Jewish Vote
Worse, it allows a more conservative minority of Jews to stand for the whole community.
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The Lethal Antisemitism of “Cultural Marxism”
A right-wing conspiracy theory has once again proved deadly.
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Paying to Work: On the Student/Worker Distinction
The universities have a vested interest in overdetermining the distinction between student and worker.
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