There is a Jewish folktale from Egypt called “Elijah’s Violin” and I had to go track it down after I, along with so many,
Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Graduate Certificate program in
On June 3, more than 100 organizations in the mainstream of the American Jewish community issued a statement in the wake of the murder of
On Thursday April 23, U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter granted a motion brought by the ACLU representing several detainees at the Adelanto Detention Center. The
We harm the black community – Jewish and not – when we appropriate black culture. We reinforce the idea of black culture as a commodity to be sampled, mocked, and tossed aside when we’re finished.
Let us use this high holiday Teshuva period to do the important work of dismantling racism in our hearts and in our society
“We were warned about Culpeper,” said IfNotNow (INN) member Ayelet Wachs Cashman (pictured above), “but there was more honking in support there than anywhere we’ve been,
Reckoning with Jewish trauma and privilege in the wake of Charlottesville
What will it was look like to put our bodies on the line in front of violent white supremacists accountable to nothing and no one?
“It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it.” We’ve thought about these words