Selected Essays

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2005

Offers We

Couldn't Refuse

The Decline of Actively Secular

Jewish Identity

in the 20th century U.S.

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revised from Jewish Currents

Workmen's Circle march - possibly 1934 i
2020

Trump & Giuliani's

Crude, Coercive &

Conditional 'Love'

for Jews

in Ha'aretz

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2014

Coming Clean

​in Class Lives: Stories from Across Our Economic Divide

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2006

The Ethics of

the Soldiers

My Father, Myself and

the Israeli Refuseniks

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in Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and our Friends

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2021

The World Demands Otherwise

A Response to Jewish Currents

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on the role of the Jewish Left in resisting antisemitism

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2020

Bernie Sanders May Soon Have to Confront This Antisemitic Myth

in The Washington Post

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2009

The Jewish Bund

​in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present

2005

Al yodekho un

beyn eynekho

Far vos ikh lern zikh yidish

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(Upon Your Arm and Between Your Eyes: Why I Study Yiddish)

 

in Afn Shvel: The Journal of the League for Yiddish

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2020

What Dreams

of Canada

Tell Us About

Race in America

in The Pitch

 

(reprinted from History News Network)

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2019

Want to Fight

Antisemitism,

After Pittsburgh?

Here's one easy way.

 

in The Washington Post

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2007

How to Split

the Sea

Antisemitism and Social Change

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in Righteous Indignation:

A Jewish Call for Justice

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2001

All I Really

Need to Know

On Growing Up

White in East Germantown

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for the Germantown Historical Society

Image credits:

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Offers We Couldn't Refuse: Automotive Solutions Youtube Channel

The World Demands Otherwise: Kristopher Roller (Unsplash).

What Dreams of Canada: SNCC protest against the Vietnam War, Anthology Film Archives & Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture

Trump and Giuliani's...: Workmen's Circle rally circa 1934, archival source unknown, from Mapping Yiddish New York

Bernie Sanders May Soon...: Italian propaganda poster circa 1943, from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum collection

Want to Fight Antisemitism, After Pittsburgh? Dalia Sapon-Shevin

Coming Clean: Kelly Blair

The Jewish Bund: Mir Trogn a Gezang

How to Split the Sea: Salah Khaled, Google Maps/Picasa 2017

Ethics of the Soldiers: Bubbie

Al yodekho: Afn Shvel

All I Really Need to Know: Maps data 2011, Google 2019