The Prophetic Problem With ‘Privilege’

By Evan Goldstein May 7, 2015

  These days, it seems I can’t scroll down my Facebook news feed without seeing something about privilege. At Boston College and within American Jewry more broadly, conversations about privilege of various kinds have been vigorous and ongoing. While much of it has focused on racial privilege, especially here at New Voices, there has been…

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The Jewish Leviathan: Considering Israel with Rabbi Thomas Hobbes

By Evan Goldstein February 11, 2015

What do we call a society where you have to gain state permission before you can travel a few miles in order to marry? Perhaps it seems that we are searching for an “-ism,” some grand unified theory that nobody without the letters Ph.D. after their name cares about. But as the New York Times…

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