When Hair Means More Than Just Hair: A Deeper Take on Jewish Curls
From eugenics to historical antisemitism, the impulse to straighten the curl may be a manifestation of intergenerational trauma.
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They Are Here, They Are Everywhere: White Supremacy from My Pacific Northwest Homes to the Capitol
“I cannot ignore these two incidents. I can’t think of them as tragic coincidences.”
The Longer-Term Fight Against An Insurrection
“Antiracist action requires more than protests; it requires community education, eliminating poverty & inequality, and abolishing those institutions which perpetuate racism and cannot be reformed.”
“The Itch to Create”: A Jewish Currents Fellowship Reflection
I rediscovered the power of art and creativity from the other New Voices fellows; when I write the next niggun, I will send it to them first.
Campus Freedom Seders: Freedom For Who, Exactly?
Lift your head from the haggadah. Where is Pharaoh’s army today? This inquiry motivated Rabbi Arthur Waskow to create the first Freedom Seder. After Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s April 1968 assassination, Waskow saw the police occupation of black neighborhoods in DC and other cities nationwide as an uncanny parallel to the Passover story. The…
“This Is What I Was Scared Of”: First Thoughts After a Massacre
When I saw the news I tried to think if I know anyone who lives in Pittsburgh. If any of my Jewish friends have family there. If any of the first years we’ve welcomed to Hillel over the last few months grew up there. I couldn’t think. I called my friend and cried on the…
Antifa Activist Talks Jewish Identity After Protest at University of Tennessee
Eva Watler, age 41, has been dealing with Nazis in Tennessee since she was 13 years old when she was jumped by a pack of skinheads in Dragon Park in Nashville. “They were looking for Jews to beat up,” she said. “I was 13 and I didn’t know how to fight. It was shocking.” As…