Jewish Tokenism and Tolerance: On Liberals, Narratives, and Costa Rica

By Jonathan Katz February 5, 2014

Zach Cohen’s New Voices article was not exactly the most adulatory of Costa Rica. His piece prompted responses: one from Q Costa Rica and two from the Costa Rica Star – an initial piece and a follow-up. These pieces took a largely self-defensive, mocking, and somewhat anti-Semitic tone. Yet at the same time, the pieces…

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Take a Stand

By Carly Silver June 24, 2010

A Jewish dance troupe in Germany is attacked by young boys throwing stones. Welsh men bandy racial slurs about and tell the Jews to “go home.” Helen Thomas barks out a similar request. What is all of this hatred doing in today’s world? It’s time to take a stand and nip this racism in the…

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The Global Citizen: Tolerating Intolerance

By feabdelhak January 6, 2010

The Global Citizen is a joint project of New Voices and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS). Throughout the year, a group of former AJWS volunteers will offer their take on global justice, Judaism and international development. Opinions expressed by Global Citizen bloggers do not necessarily represent AJWS. In the beginning of my time living…

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The Importance of being Tolerant

By bzalcman November 2, 2009

I remember it pretty well; it is one of the only memories I have of third grade that is not a blur of carpool, the playground and making sweet potato pie. We came into the classroom after davening, and our teacher, Mrs. X silently handed us lined paper. “A tragic thing happened last night in…

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