Jewish Currents • 26th April 2021

Jewish Currents: What Happened to IfNotNow?

The close of the Trump era finds the millennial anti-occupation group at a crossroads.

Jacobin • 8th January 2020

To Defeat Antisemitism, We Must Defeat Capitalism

Antisemitism endures because capitalist oppression needs a scapegoat. Only by democratizing the economy can the ancient hate finally be extinguished.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency • 11th October 2019

Bernie Sanders Is 76, but He Represents the Future of American Jewry

As much as Bernie Sanders seems alien to many of the shul-going, institutionally affiliated older Jewish Americans, he is deeply representative of the silent majority for whom social justice movements take the place of synagogue and Israel is more often a cause for kvetching than kvelling.

Jacobin • 27th August 2019

American Jews, Don’t Go on Birthright

Birthright Israel pretends the occupation does not exist and manipulates Jewish heritage and identity into support for an apartheid state. I’ll never go on Birthright, and neither should you.

Jacobin • 5th July 2019

The Border Patrol Is the American SS

After decades of nurturing a culture of violent, racist abuse, Customs and Border Protection cannot be seen as just another working-class job. Like Hitler’s SS, we must see CBP not as a place where good people do bad things, but where bad people do bad things.

Jewish Currents • 14th June 2019

If You Prick Watto, Does He Not Bleed?

"Like Shylock, who distracts the audience from the true, malevolent power of the Venetian oligarchy, Watto is but a bit player next to the kleptocratic Hutt regime."

The Guardian • 14th May 2019

Hatred of Jews Terrifies Me. So Do False Accusations of Antisemitism

When the term antisemitism is cheapened by false usage on the right, it gives cover to the real antisemites.

Jewish Currents • 8th May 2019

The Electoral College Erases the Jewish Vote

Worse, it allows a more conservative minority of Jews to stand for the whole community.

The Forward • 18th April 2019

The Forward: Why Are Jewish Millennials Flocking To Socialism? Passover Has The Answer

We young Jews — the most assimilated in American Jewish history — have learned how to ask.

Jewish Currents • 8th April 2019

Practicing Capitalists

In "The Lehman Trilogy," a Jewish fable of greed and hubris.

The Forward • 11th March 2019

Jewish Leaders Denounce ‘Dual Loyalties’ - While Demanding Fealty To Israel From Jews

Every time a Jewish leader grandstands against the anti-Semitic canard of “dual loyalty,” I groan.