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I’m having some serious flashbacks of my middle school experience! Check this out:

Four or five Parkway West Middle School students will be disciplined after administrators found out this week that they had created a “Hit A Jew Day” at the Chesterfield school.
Principal Linda Lelonek learned Monday night that her sixth graders had started an unofficial [...]

This is not an every day occurrence and the reason it caught my eye. I have never yet read of any group or single person file a lawsuit against a Jewish body of any kind. This is the kind of news which will never get on the radar, for fear that the idea might “just [...]

Review of April Rosenblum, The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere: Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All of Our Movements. Self-published, 2007. Available for download at www.thepast.info.
The following review appeared in Upping The Anti #5 (October 2007) under the title “Not Just a Smear Tactic.” The text here, the version originally submitted by the author, differs [...]

Yesterday could have been a day like any other day.
I spent the morning of Shabbat resting before my good friend and I drove into San Francisco, bought a tarjeta de regalo at Ritmo Latino, picked up another friend (friend 2) (who has the most fabulous gift wrapping abilities) and then on to celebrate the 40th [...]

Please consider contributing an essay for an anthology on the subject of Jews and Transgender. I am eager to hear from representative Jewish voices in trans, gender variant and intersex communities. Persons of any gender or no gender or shifting gender, please feel welcome to contribute. Jews with no relationship to Judaism, secular [...]

Big win for the Courage Campaign who galvanized over 30,000 people to make sure that everyone’s vote is counted, and an end to the “double bubble” trouble plaguing voters and the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters. The “double bubble” issue is being talked about as the “Florida” of the 2008 election (but what’s lost [...]

Putting aside fears of anti-Semitism to reclaim an old label
First published on jew-ish.com
It was a pretty normal Wednesday evening in early December. I had picked up copy of The Stranger right by Fuel on 19th — a coffee shop conveniently located near my overpriced two-room Capitol Hill apartment. After lighting candles with friends for the [...]

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i’ve been meaning to write something about the destruction of temples, and whether it’s something to mourn. partly because i have a soft spot for some aspects of tisha b’av despite my secularism, and partly inspired by a friend’s experience being told by a progressive jewish organization that a drash she wrote for them [...]

Last week I was on the phone with my mom while walking to Penn Station. We got into an incredibly interesting conversation about god and gender, so even after I arrived I stayed on the sidewalk to finish our conversation before I descended into the radio-free basement of Manhattan.
As I stood in the waning [...]

From the introduction:

Two Jews, a crumbling empire, and a struggling resistance movement walk into a bar…

For people who have committed themselves to fundamental social change, the situation we’re stuck in with antisemitism is like a bad joke.

From one side, progressive and radical activists and scholars are being attacked by organized campaigns to brand us antisemites. In particular, it’s virtually impossible to speak out critically about Israel without being charged with antisemitism.

At the same time, we face real currents of unchallenged anti-Jewish oppression in our movements and the world. This endangers Jews, corrupts our political integrity, and sabotages our ability to create the effective resistance our times demand. …

Among the contents:

-Antisemitism is still a world problem
-How could Jews be oppressed?
-But Arabs are Semites!
-Meet the amazing, disappearing oppression
-Let’s look at an example of how antisemitism works.
-If you liked COINTELPRO, you’ll LOVE the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
-The Revolution, the Jews and the “Generous Offer”
-Time Out! (A Word to Jews)
-Innoculate your Palestine work against antisemitism
-Tips for every activist

…and more.