Who's Afraid of Judy Maccabee?
Katha Pollitt : Religion
Women increasingly are taking leadership roles in Jewish life--and that's a problem?
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Passover as If Earth Really Matters
Arthur Waskow : Environmental Activism
Passover and Earth Day fall in the same week in April this year. Here's how environmental activists and people of faith can respond to this holy season of liberation.
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(Some) Jews Against Obama
Eric Alterman : Presidential Election 2008
What do neocons and their media mouthpieces fear most about Obama's stance on Israel? Could it be honesty?
2007
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'Bad for the Jews'
Eric Alterman : Media Analysis
A paradox of American Jewish political behavior: they think like liberals, but they let belligerent right-wingers who demonize and distort their values speak for them.
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Why the Silence?
Arthur Waskow : Peace Activism
Leaders of the Jewish community who have resisted calls to voice opposition to the war can no longer justify their failure to speak out.
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Progressive Jews Organize
Peter Dreier & Daniel May : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
A new wave of grassroots Jewish activism is emerging around issues like housing, healthcare and education.
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The Imaginary Jew
Two new novels, by Michael Chabon and Nathan Englander, recharge the modern Jewish experience with a sense of the exotic.
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Before the Law
Isaac B. Singer: A Life fails to fully illustrate the complexity of the writer's struggle with his heritage.
2006
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AIPAC Runs Right
Eric Alterman : Electoral Politics
American Jews are liberals and support Democrats. Why, then, do Jewish organizations, supported by contributions of liberal Jews, strategize with Republicans on how to smear these same Democrats?
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The Israel Divestment Debate
Hasdai Westbrook : Protestantism & Protestants
Traditional bonds between Jews and mainline Christians are strained as a concern for Palestinian rights spurs churches to consider divesting from Israeli companies.
2005
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The Chosen People
The Jewish Century defies the conventional view of Jews as outsiders and traces their symbiotic relationship with Christians. A History of the Jews in the Modern World follows the impact the multitude of journeys that Diaspora Jews have taken on countries in the modern era.
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Reflections on the Body Politic
Novelist David Grossman discusses Israel and the role of politics in his writing.
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Collective Memory and the Holocaust
An interview with Peter Eisenman, architect of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial.
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Cosmopolis
Home for centuries to Christians, Muslims and Jews, Salonica was a cosmopolitan world where people of various cultures and religions lived side by side.
2004
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The Jewish Divide on Israel
Esther Kaplan : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
A growing grassroots movement has challenged the artificial AIPAC consensus.
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In Praise of Diasporism, or, Three Cheers for Irving Berlin
This is no time for petty feuds over doctrinal purity, but for organized resistance to the Occupation.
2003
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In Defense of the Law of Return
Letty Cottin Pogrebin : Israel
It is Israel's compensatory response to the truth of Jewish experience.
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Why Israel Must Choose Justice
Without it, no state can endure as a representative of the Jewish nature.
2002
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Jews for Justice
Some American Jews today feel betrayed by Israeli policies.
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