Garland’s fascinating and painstakingly detailed analysis reveals that thousands of Jews—exact numbers are, of course, unavailable—opted to break the quota laws and enter the U.S. illegally. Desperate to leave anti-Semitism and poverty behind them, they traveled from their countries of origin to Canada, Cuba or Mexico, hoping to evade immigration authorities as they crossed into the goldene medina.
Shoshana Brown’s queries address strategic and tactical concerns that are important for all progressive social justice efforts—religious and secular, Jewish and non—as we enter the uncharted terrain of Trumplandia.
When Helena Weinrauch was 88 years old, she found a promotional flyer from the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in her mailbox. The leaflet promised a free lesson followed by a party.
As the 25-year-old daughter of a white Jewish mother and an African-American Catholic father, Donnella says that she hopes the article will prompt American Jews to take stock of their assumptions and treat Jews of color not as strange, out-of-place, curiosities but as members of an increasingly diverse and vibrant spiritual community.
I wanted to make the many women who contributed to the underground visible but, at the same time, not turn them into superheroines.
Sheryl B. Fleisch and the program staffers who join her wander the city offering care to women and men living in parks, tunnels, and under bridges and highway underpasses.
“This Gonna Be On the Test, Miss?” introduces audiences to the diverse students who’ve found their way into the developmental – sometimes called remedial – English classes she has taught for more than two decades.
“The fact that women in Rojava are leading military battalions and that feminists are organizing to create a bottom-up participatory democracy in a war zone is incredible. It’s a story that needs to be publicized.”
Gornick on feminism: “Think of it as running a four-minute mile. No one thought it was possible until someone did it and then lots of others followed suit.”
Reproductive justice activist Marlene Gerber Fried talks small victories, ideological shifts, and the next generation of activist scholars.
