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Justice, Justice, Shall You Pursue

By Jennie Spector To my fellow Jews, especially white Ashkenazim – Our liberation is inextricably wound in Black liberation. We have an obligation as Jews to loudly declare that Black Lives Matter, to show up for the movement, and to, in the words of Rabbi Heschel, pray with our feet. We fled to the US…

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Poverty Amid Plenty: Middle class protests in Israel presaged Occupy movement

Israel’s social unrest in the summer of 2011 – or the “movement for social justice” as protesters chanted at every gathering – is one of the few times that an important social trend emerged in Israel before the United States. Though Israel launched the movement, the question now is which society will be the first…

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