Dear fellow progressive American Jews, Dramatic as it may sound, I am writing with sadness and fear to warn you that, more than ever before, you are likely to face attempts to weaponize your Jewish identity in efforts to harm and endanger the Jewish future. And while those that pursue these efforts will be speaking …
Last week, I attended an event at the Women’s National Democratic Club (no formal relationship with the Democratic Party) in Washington, D.C. for an event on Palestinian rights with executive director of Amnesty International USA, Paul O’Brien. The event was advertised as an opportunity for one of the world’s most recognized human rights organizations to present …
As a native Louisianan living in Los Angeles, I often ask fellow progressives about their impressions of the South. The responses range, but almost always include a reference to the region’s overwhelmingly conservative states and counties, as well as its regrettable past defined by Jim Crow and segregation. This is all true, of course, but …
A young member of Congress has emerged as an outspoken ally of Israel during its most recent tumultuous days. Congressman Ritchie Torres is a name that is becoming more and more associated not just with supporting Israel, but also embracing Israel as part of a progressive political platform. He’s a Democrat from the Bronx, but …
“It’s become a very common experience for rabbis, and Jews of really any kind who lean to the left progressively, to find, at the very least, difficulties in progressive circles with the love for Israel,” said Rabbi Menachem Creditor, the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar-in-Residence at UJA-Federation of New York. Among people like him — …
